Shoeless

 

 I didn't take today's pictures. They're from clip art. I call this one "Shoeless."

 Lately, meaning in the last five minutes, I've been thinking about what it would be like if we didn't have shoes- never invented. How would our society look shoeless? If you could close your eyes and still read this, I would say close your eyes. In your imagination, look at your bare feet. What would your life be like in bare feet-always? Draw an imaginary circle on a piece of "air" paper that represents shoelessness, and pretend you are at the epicenter of that shoeless circle. Now add a series of circles radiating from the center for every consequence imaginable because of  your shoeless paradigm shift. Transfer that image to a piece of real paper. I bet you can't put that image on a piece of paper;you would have far too many circles, and that's just a visual representation of life without shoes.

What if we didn't have eye glasses? O.K., so it seems these are silly imaginings. There was a time when neither glasses nor shoes were invented, but that's not the case now. This short exercise might seem absurd, but sometimes it takes the absurd to put things into perspective for us and possibly help us realize just how much the simplest of things in our lives are interconnected with everything else. Is there anything not connected? I like the way our human/God connectedness is described in John chapter 17 verse 20. It's even more beautiful to me because it is especially written with us in mind. It reads, "I am praying not only for these disciples but also for all who will ever believe in me through their message. I pray that they will all be one, just as you and I are one- as you are in me, Father, and I am in you. And may they be in us so that the world will believe you sent me."

Peace.                                                            
Love, Linda