While brushing my teeth this morning . . .

Day 111

I noticed my feet. I glanced down, and there they were, as they have been for the past 26+ years, sitting (standing?) unassumingly at the end of my ankles. I stopped brushing and just stared at them staring back at me against their background of gray linoleum.

I usually don’t notice my feet – they are packaged in socks and shoes for most of the day and under my covers at night (or sticking out from the end of my blanket in the dark). To tell the truth, I only pay attention to them when they hurt, like last year when I had a bad bout of tendinitis in both of them at the same time. That was unpleasant.

But this morning they got noticed for no other reason than that they were there. They aren’t particularly good-looking feet, but as I considered them this morning with toothbrush in hand, I realized how amazing they are. They uncomplainingly carry me around campus at the rate of five miles a day. Ever since I started walking at the ripe old age of 22 months, it’s been these two feet that have transported me up and down mountains, along dirt paths and grassy fields and concrete sidewalks in cities and towns and little villages around the world. They have hiked, skipped, run, walked, and stumbled. They have been scratched, bruised, strained, blistered, calloused, impaled with thorns, and one of my ten toes has been broken. Yet they faithfully carry on. Pun very much intended.

In case you can’t tell, today I am very grateful for my feet. Thank you, Lord, for your wonderful design. 

Onward.

Spiritual Vitamins for Believers, Part 8:

1. I have been called with a holy calling (2 Tim. 1:9).
2. I am a partaker of the high, heavenly calling (Phil. 3:14; Heb. 3:1).
3. I have been called out of darkness into His marvelous light (1 Pet. 2:9).
4. God foreknew me (Rom. 8:29; 1 Pet. 1:2).
5. God predestined me to be conformed to Christ’s image (Rom. 8:29; Eph. 1:5,11).
6. I have already been glorified according to God’s mind and purpose (Rom. 8:30).
7. I am eternally secure in God’s love (Rom. 8:38-39).
8. I am chosen in Christ (Eph. 1:4; Col. 3:12; 1 Thess. 1:4; 1 Pet. 2:9; Rev. 17:14).
9. I am complete in Christ (Col. 2:10).