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From A Grandma's Perspective....

Shoes

Karla was trying to walk in my shoes.  Her tiny feet were lost in my number 9’s but that did not deter her from doing her best.  She clumped and stumbled,  fiddled and faddled, until she finally lost interest in her hilarious effort to walk.  Children love to wear grownup’s shoes.  Little girls will spend hours playing dress-up and clomping around in an old pair of mom’s high heels.  Dad’s heavy work shoes are a special delight to plod in.

 Children love to pretend they are grownup.   As a child I spent hours  playing mommy, teacher,  nurse and school bus driver with my bike.  It is a pretend world of fantasy and realism, role play and reality.  At a very early age a child’s character development can be seen in who they imitate and how they play.

 Paul urged the Corinthians to “imitate me, just as I also imitate Christ”  (I Corinthians 11:1).  He challenged the Corinthian church with Old Testament examples not to follow; those who died in the wilderness because of unbelief, idolatry, sexual immorality,  and complaining.   He said “these things are given to us as examples and were written for our admonition.  Therefore, let him who thinks he stands take heed lest he fall.” (I Corinthians 10: 11-12)  Paul was not ashamed of the gospel of Christ as he understood it was the power of God unto salvation.  He wanted fellow believers to feel, believe and live as passionately as he did.  Paul kept his eyes fixed on Christ and ran the race that was before him.   Paul’s shoes may seem hard to fill, but he is a worthy role model for any modern day Christian.

By Pat Hertzler

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