{"id":10683,"date":"2019-08-01T04:50:15","date_gmt":"2019-08-01T09:50:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/?p=10683"},"modified":"2019-08-01T04:50:27","modified_gmt":"2019-08-01T09:50:27","slug":"these-shoes-feel-like-slippers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/?p=10683","title":{"rendered":"These Shoes Feel Like Slippers"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

DSW Shoes sent me an email with the subject line: \u201cThese Shoes Feel Like Slippers!\u201d I know advertising ploys and that one was supposed to entice me to check out that ad, but sorry, DSW! I wasn\u2019t tempted. But, thank you, DSW, because you gave me food for thought for this blog today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Pictured here are a gal\u2019s absolute verification that \u201cthese shoes feel like slippers\u201d. Several pairs seem to be worn out. The top two pair are newer \u2013 barely worn at all. The \u201cworn-out\u201d ones are symbols of guaranteed comfort and healing to my feet. From the wear and tear, you can see that I live in them when I\u2019m not out and about. I know this brand of shoes was God’s provision for healing as an answer to my prayers. And, though many of them look quite shabby, they still have the structure that keeps my feet supported. I can’t bring myself to throw any away. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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In the words of the great philosopher, Marilyn Monroe: “Give a gal the right shoes and she can conquer the world”. That quote, and, especially that adorable little girl prancing around in her mama’s shoes brings a smile to my face. Little girls just want to be like their mamas. But, there’s something about us BIG girls who want to be like someone else, too! We want to \u201cfeel\u201d like we\u2019re wearing slippers \u2013 perhaps Cinderella\u2019s glass slippers. Maybe it’s because of who they’re married to, or how wealthy they are, or how beautiful they are, or how smart they are, or what a bubbly, outgoing personality they have.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But, RIP, Marilyn Monroe, who didn’t realize that God did GIVE us gals the RIGHT shoes, and we, not only CAN, but we ARE conquering the world. The RIGHT shoes to be in, are the ones that God created just for us to wear.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

You and I are unique, one-of-a-kind, specially handcrafted originals. Before we were ever conceived, God had a plan and purpose that only we can fulfill (Jeremiah 1:5). We don\u2019t have to try to fit into someone else\u2019s shoes (or try to be like them or look like them). Remember the wicked stepsisters of Cinderella trying to fit into Cinderella’s shoes, and they just couldn’t? That’s because they were trying to BE Cinderella. It didn’t work for them and it doesn’t work for us either.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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We just simply must walk in the \u201cdesigner\u201d shoes that God made just for us. That\u2019s what I do with my comfy, cozy, healing slippers. Once, I wore 3\u201d heels \u2013 had every color and style imaginable. Oh, yes \u2013 I can verify that I had plenty of shoes \u2013 so much so that I received the Imelda Marcus Shoe Award (note the hair and shoe award photo here)! I no longer wear those shoes. It was a season. I\u2019m in a new season now with different slippers \u2013 ones that God gave me to wear \u2013 and I own it. I was conquering the world in those 3\u201d heels in MY season and now I\u2019m conquering the world in these built-for-me slippers today. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Actually, it\u2019s not at all about the shoes but about the men and women that God destined us to be, to show up when He calls us for duty \u2013 and whether that duty is on a computer writing a blog to encourage and motivate someone to live in audacious faith, behind a receptionist desk being a light to all she or he encounters, a nurse with loving hands and heart ministering to those in her or his care, those on a telephone bringing awesomeness to someone who needs an uplifting word, one on an airplane telling someone about God\u2019s great love, or in front of a kitchen stove preparing a meal based on love and devotion to their family, or walking outside and embracing the One Who created it all \u2013 let\u2019s go right on today, in our specially designed \u2013 one-of-a-kind shoes and conquer and change the world. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWear shoes that are able to speed you on as you preach the Good News of peace with God.\u201d Ephesians 6:15 <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

DSW Shoes sent me an email with the subject line: \u201cThese Shoes Feel Like Slippers!\u201d I know advertising ploys and that one was supposed to entice me to check out that ad, but sorry, DSW! I wasn\u2019t tempted. But, thank you, DSW, because you gave me food for thought for this blog today. Pictured here…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10684,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14145,14143,14144],"tags":[14142,180,5842,6342,14140,14147,1802,173,14149,11237,14148,331,14136],"class_list":["post-10683","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-conquer","category-shoes","category-slippers","tag-3-heels","tag-advertising","tag-cinderella","tag-designer","tag-ephesians-615","tag-glass-slippers","tag-handcrafted","tag-healing","tag-imelda-marcus","tag-marilyn-monroe","tag-one-of-a-kind","tag-shoes","tag-slippers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10683","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10683"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10683\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10689,"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10683\/revisions\/10689"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/10684"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10683"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10683"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10683"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}