Chapter 198

The wrong shoes.

What a terrible story and a great metaphor. This past week I was getting my physiotherapy done at Energi Studio where I have been using their services for the last 12 years. When we finished, I got dressed and jumped in my car and headed across town for a client meeting. I called my dad up on the phone like I often do and headed out.

The whole trip across town (35 minutes) Energi Studio kept ringing my phone and I kept declining their call because I was talking to my dad. When I arrived at my client’s office building and rang off with my dad, I called Energi studio to find out why they had been blowing up my phone. When Nena answered the phone she asked me to look at my shoes! Huh?? Yes I have shoes on. “Those are Adidas that you have on, but yours are Puma’s.” It finally dawned on me that I had one someone else’s shoes on! Yes they were very very similar in color and obviously practically the same size, but still!

Lots of people I know are wearing the wrong shoes relationally or vocationally or spiritually. They are someone else’s shoes, not their own. Not the vocational shoes that they should be wearing. Not the relationship shoes they should be wearing, nor the spiritual shoes they should be wearing.

Most just fall into these wrong shoes just like I grabbed the first pair of gray sneakers off the rack at Energi studio. We don’t examine these shoes very closely, we just put them on and if the fit isn’t too terribly wrong, then we wear them.

This is a mistake that you keep paying the price for, if you don’t back up and get it right.