Louboutins Vs. A Fresh Pair of Nikes

                 

Have you ever heard the phrase, “I’m on a walk with Christ”? Most likely you have and if not, well today is your lucky day because now you have! Jesus calls us to walk with him on a great journey of faith and love. However, have you ever wondered what kind of shoes are on your feet as you are walking this journey? The answer to that question is most  likely a big fat negative. So, I started to do a little thinking this week. The first thing I needed to figure out in order to decide what pair of shoes I need to lace up in was where have I been walking, and where do I want to continue to walk. The first half of that question did not take me long to figure out, I have been walking down a spiritual path filled with road blocks left and right. Imagine your neighborhood street after a hurricane whipped through. There is debris everywhere and plenty of distractions (including that FINE hottie helping your neighbor get the tree lifted off her car!).

Anyway, here is my question: If I had on an AMAZE pair of Louboutin pumps while walking down this destructed path, would I have seen the light a little sooner, or would I still be in utter darkness. (For all you guys out there Louboutins are the Mercedes of shoes! A basic black pump runs at about $600, and do not start to fret because YES, mens shoes are available!) This question seems kind of funny to ask but take a deeper look at it with me:

Jesus is constantly pursuing each one of us. I would say that at the moment Jesus is pursuing me full throttle. The difference between now and last year is this time my heart is totally captivated! I’m now contemplating does that have anything to do with the shoes on my feet???
Stay with me on this one: Imagine you are at Disney World and you are wearing a pair of Jessica Simpson platform heels. You may be lookin supafly, but do you think you really would want to gallivant around the park all day in those weapons? Chances are, you are screaming out a big N-O in your head right now. These shoes are holding you back from experiencing the happiest place on Earth! Now, imagine that you exchanged those brutal heels for some fresh Nike Shox. Who wants to make a run to Animal Kingdom? HOLLLAAAA!!!

Did you make the connection? Disney would was the same when you were wearing the heels and the tennis shoes. It was YOU that felt different. It was YOU that went from just wanting to relax and put your feet up, to wanting to run around and soak up as much wholesome fun as you could!
Jesus was the same yesterday that He is today and will be tomorrow. He has been calling my name since before I was born. I just had the wrong shoes on. So, now its your turn to make the call,

Is the Secret to life a good pair of shoes?

Feedback is encouraged I would love to hear your thoughts!!!

Happy Friday!
Kathryn

The Search is On

 

Hello friends!!! For those of you who don’t know me, my name is Kathryn. I am 21 years old and am currently at a crossroad. This Monday I asked my Phi Mu chapter to take time and write a letter to themselves. The letter could include anything from New Years resolutions, goals for the year, or if they so pleased a list of “Would you rather” jokes. (For example: Would you rather eat 15 unused cotton balls, or drink a gallon of salt water?) At the end of 2011 I told them I would send the letter back to them via snail mail. Then, it hit me like a ton of bricks. BOOOMMM! As I was receiving all of these letters back, I couldn’t for-the-life-of-me figure out what I wanted to write in my own letter! To be honest, a month ago I probably would have said that I had it all figured out, my life was finally perfectly in place, and I didn’t need to make any changes whatsoever. But boy oh boy, was I mistaken! I have had a lot of time to think over the brutally dragged out Christmas break, and this is all I could come up with: I AM A MESS!

Let me give you a little information to help you understand:
At the beginning of my college career I was full throttle Jesus Freak on fire! The good Lord was filling my love tank up each and every day and I could not get enough! I actually acquired the nickname, Little Jesus. Which, until recently was something that I resented with a mile deep passion. Then, “college life” zoomed in at 120 miles per hour. I got caught up in school, new friends, being a sorority girl, and trying to balance my new life in with my old faith. How wrong does that sound? I was trying to balance my faith in with my life, aka Jesus was being put on a big fat hold! Eventually, He got shoved in the back of my messy closet. But don’t worry, I pulled him out every once in a while to make sure people remembered I was a Christian. HA!

This brings me to the present, I am currently on a mission to ignite my hotter than hot love for the big man upstairs once again! How do I do this? I don’t really know. So, I picked up an old book I had started reading a long time ago, Crazy Love (Highlyyyyy recommended!). This made me realize something, I’ve been a lukewarm Christian the past two years. YUCK! For those of you who are not sure what that is, let me give you a couple of characteristics (all thanks to Francis Chan).
1.They desire to fit in both inside the church and outside the church
2. They don’t want to be saved from their sins, rather the penalty of them
3. They are moved by people who do radical things, yet they themselves do nothing
4. (This is the most cringing of them all ) They rarely share their faith because they do not want to make people feel uncomfortable!

What does all of this have to do with finding the secret to life you ask? Well, I want to figure out what Jesus’ big secret is!

As we both pursue each other on this new journey of revived faith, I want to find out what I was missing 2 years ago that made it so easy to rid me of my yearning for the Lord.

What is it that satisfies the human heart to the utmost core? I LOVE loving Jesus and now I want to find out what he is holding out on me with! Is it true love, music, a good vacation, or is the secret embedded in my guilty pleasure: GOSSIP GIRL? Consider this my letter to myself. I am setting a time crunch of one year to figure it out. This means I have 365 days and 52 weeks to explore the worlds most compelling mystery. Every week I will dissect a topic from laughter to grandparents, from a cozy bed to a best friend, what is it that makes the world go round? At the end of one year I will pick THE secret of life from these 52 topics. Is it possible? I am not sure, but I am excited to find out!
So, please join me on this journey and invite your friends! Maybe together we can put this mystery to rest!

Peace out rainbow trout!
Kathryn