The Dangling Shoe- living victoriously for God in an unpredictable world.

Jesus came to help the broken, the wounded, the ‘not okay’.   The people in the Bible who viewed themselves as ‘strong’ were the ones who really didn’t reach out to Jesus and, in their pride, didn’t see their need.   And how did Jesus respond to them?   Jesus passed them by, those, who in their arrogance, thought themselves ‘better than’.   Instead, Jesus went to the broken, the sick, the blind, the needy, the dying.   He went to those people who knew they were not okay…and everyone else knew it too.   They saw Jesus up close and personal, and they knew they needed Him.   They were not afraid to show their pain, their scars, and their flaws.   They looked on with hope when the King of the Universe stopped for them, looked at them, talked to them and offered his hand and his heart.   Those were the ones he befriended and redeemed.   You see, the ones who thought they were ‘okay’ were really the ones who lost out, eternally. ...

We pulled into a parking spot and my husband immediately said “You’re crooked, you need to straighten out the car.”  (Now, if any of you know me, you know I'm a Philly girl and there are two things I do well. The first is parking a car, and the other is the Philly attitude.) I gave him a look (there it is…) and said, “Ummm, I think not.” As I got out of the car, I looked at the lines for the parking space in relation to the car. It was nearly perfectly aligned on all sides...it was truly a thing of beauty (if I do say so myself.) Two of our kids were with us and as I humbly (cough) stated that my parking job was flawless, they both agreed. My husband got out of the car and, after checking it out, had to agree as well. He admitted the car was straight and I parked it exceptionally well (adverb may be the addition of the author). So, why did he initially think the car was crooked? Well, he was looking at the other car facing us, which was parked a bit oddly, but he couldn’...