An Unworn Shoe

Do you ever think about the shoes in the back of your closet? Perfectly capable of being worn, perfectly capable of being used as they were intended to be used. But for some reason - there they are. In the back - just waiting to unlock the potential they have been given. To be used in the very way they were created to be used... just waiting for you to give them the opportunity.

This season sometimes has me feeling like the lonely pair of shoes. Or maybe just one shoe - because I am not a pair.
I often try to define the season that I am in. Sometimes I perfectly address the environment I find myself in, and sometimes I stop and tell myself, "just let it be, sometimes there are not definitions or answers for our questions."
In conversation I often find myself responding exactly as I need to in order to answer those questions.
Today it was with a very dear friend over coffee in a Kroger Starbucks. This friend has often been my sounding board, and always is encouraging. I could never be more grateful for someone to whom I can be accountable, and laugh until we cry and almost wet ourselves. Who could ask for more in life?
We talked about life, the ups and downs, and I came to this analogy. I feel like the pair of unworn shoes. Like God has given me an incredible passion deep inside to do something. He has created me to be someone who only I could be - but yet I feel unused. This is the waiting - sometimes it is a beautiful time of just enjoying time with Him, and sometimes it is a difficult time of wondering "when?"

God has created me to do something in this life - and I am so excited for that something, that I often get inpatient. However, I still don't really know what it is. So I ask, and I ask, and I ask. One thing I do know. He calls and He equips and He opens doors. All I have to do is walk faithfully the path that leads to that door. In my favorite shoes.