Friday’s Reflection
IF YOU’RE LIKE ME, memories of certain places in your life make your feet feel good. I think of the hot concrete outside the Vandalia Dairy Queen; the cool kitchen linoleum of a friend’s house; the grass of the park; … the gritty texture of the beach at vacation spots and the shock of the waves when I first waded in. Sometimes as a teenager I offered to run errands for my parents, partly to be helpful but partly to be out and about with nothing on my feet. . . .
We adults usually don’t set forth from our homes barefooted with the goal of a fun-filled day. But I still like to go barefoot when I feel a little silly and also when I’m feeling sad or bored or need to change my perspective. . . . When I’m older, I know I won’t regret the silly, spur-of-the-moment joys that bring a kind of healing.
- Paul Stroble
You Gave Me a Wide Place
From page 73 of You Gave Me a Wide Place: Holy Places of Our Lives by Paul E. Stroble. Copyright © 2006 by Paul E. Stroble. All rights reserved. Used by permission of Upper Room Books. http://www.upperroom.org/bookstore/. Learn more about or purchase this book.
Today’s Question
Do you have joyful memories that bring healing to your life? Share your reflections.
Today’s Scripture Reading
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