shoes...

Shoes...

They have captivated...

This princesses heart...

Especially other people's shoes.

Her fetish...
Making a forever mess.
Also teaching.

We are a people prone to believe and strive.
Living out of sayings and expectations of past generations.
Phrases like... "she has some big shoes to fill."

I am learning to like those statements less and less.

In ALL honesty...
When my eyes and feet get fixed on what someone else has "on them"
I long for their sparkle...

Instead of celebrating my own.

The result...
Callouses and blisters of the heart.

Of course, it is always good to long for more.

Longing itself is a gift from The Giver.

He is delighted when we ask Him to place...

Shoes on our feet...

Just not the slippers of others.

He has NEVER asked His people to fill the shoes of others...

His desire...

His heart for all His smalls...

For us to grow into the ones He has already given us.

Faith shoes...

Rarely about the sparkle...

More about walking them out.

So blessed by the brother...

That will sit beside all the "tryings on..."

Patiently speak truth...

And tenderly put my feet back into...

The shoes I've been blessed to fill.

May we never be tempted to fill the shoes of another...

But remain faithful...

Walking in the anointing we have been given.