I don’t my shoe has ever fit, I don’t know if I have a shoe.
I am sure you have no clue what I’m talking about, so let me fill you in. In the story of Cinderella was the key to her happy ending. The way to find her good times. The times when everything makes sense, all the puzzle pieces fit, your on top of a cloud. Contentment, when you know who
you are & why. Those brief fleeting moments when everything seems perfect in this world, that is when your shoe fits.
I don’t think my shoe has ever fit, EVER. I’m not saying I’m living my life in complete depression and self-pity, but it definitely is not all rainbows and daises. It’s tough, it’s rough, it’s muddy and ragged. I deal with self-doubt, times when I forget God exists, and other times when I really don’t care (I know I’m a bad Christian, but you know what so is everybody!) I struggle, I climb, I fight, I don’t feel God’s presence. I LONG for God’s touch, I just want to see God. It’s so hard after feeling God’s presence to go to a place where you can’t. Those times when you feel God isn’t around (though of course he is always around). My life has been stretches of darkness with glimpses of light in between. I’ve accepted that, I’m okay with that. But it’s tough, it’s hard to keep searching when you don’t find anything.
But I want my shoe to fit. I want to be Cinderella. It’s amazing how the stories always stop right after the prince find the princess.They all lived happily after after.
“Hey hey, Cinderella, what’s the story all about
I got a funny feeling we missed a page or two somehow
Ohh-ohhhh, Cinderella, maybe you could help us out
Does the shoe fit you now” *
Isn’t that just a nice little story, who has a happily ever after? Maybe I forgot somewhere along the road that there is no ever after, and it certainly isn’t happy. It’s pretend, Cinderella is not real. Nobody can be Cinderella. So don’t try to be.
*Hey Cinderella By Suzy Bogguss
I dont think my shoe has ever fit either. I think at times I have forced it on like the step sisters. I think we are all like the step sisters. Trying so hard for something that our prince charming (Christ) has to do/ relize for us. Cinderella didn’t even want to try the shoe on he p[ut it on her. So maybe we have to be willing to let him put the shoe on us and quite fighting it. Just a thought. Im glad that I get to spend this year with you. You are great.
First, I love the song “Hey Cinderella”.Secondly, What a great entry. I agree everyone wants their shoe to fit all the time(Bruce Almighty also kinda touches on that in a way), Bruce gets mad at God because things don’t go his way(he doesn’t get his promotion, he gets beat up by a gang, he loses his job, he gets in a fight with his girlfriend and wrecks his car). But at the end, Bruce finds that God sees the big picture, we can’t always have what we want all the time or the world wouldn’t work well(for example in Bruce Almighty 1100 people win the lottery and rioting ensues).It’s a hard lesson to learn because we want to be happy and yet we also want to be in God’s will. Thirdly, I can’t wait to see you at Thanksgiving!
Would it be good if the shoe fits all the time. I myself thinks God know we have to be willing to search for him and have faith in him. We have to have some bad times to appreciate God. I know God is always with us even when we don’t think he is.(when the shoe doesn’t fit, God is still with us.) God only gives as much as we can handle (even though we don’t think we can handle it).
I am trying to get my shoes to fit too. What a great analogy. You are a gifted writer, you always make me think.
We all struggle at making it fit, but that does not matter, we just keep trying and that is all God wants from us.
Strive for perfection and don’t settle for second best! That’s our motto this year.