My 94-year-old mother used to always say she was only ready when she “dressed her feet.” That was the sign she was ready to “go to work.” If your feet weren’t “dressed,” you weren’t ready for whatever would happen that day.
Shoes have always been very important to me since I have very hard to fit feet. I have always had to wear very expensive shoes, though not necessarily pretty shoes.
Mother spent the night with me a while back and when I opened the closet door on which my shoe organizer was hanging, she said, “Why do you have so many shoes? I never saw so many except in a shoe store.”
If she only knew.
That shoe organizer only holds eight pair of shoes, the most frequently worn pairs. I have shoe boxes full of shoes in the closet. Without counting, I would guess I have eight more pair of shoes there. Then there are probably 4 more pair of athletic shoes all alike, all in different stages of being worn out. And a pair of SAS sandals.
21 pair of shoes. Compared to other women, that number of shoes is a drop in the bucket, a tiny ripple in an ocean of shoes.
Remember Imelda Marcos, the wife of the President of the Philippines, who was reported to have owned a collection of 2,700 pairs of shoes, while many people in her nation went barefoot?
However I am prepared, and every morning I dress my feet when I dress my body, preparing myself for whatever the day brings forth.
Paul tells us to prepare our feet spiritually too. “And having shod your feet in preparation [to face the enemy with the firm-footed stability, the promptness, and the readiness produced by the good news] of the Gospel of peace.” Ephesians 6:15 Amplified Bible
We are to be well-shod at all times in the Spirit, prepared at all times, with good shoes that are produced by the Gospel of Peace.
Paul tells the Christians all through the book of Ephesians to walk in unity, walk in love, walk in light, walk in wisdom, and walk in peace. (Ephesians 4:1; 5:2; 5:8; 5:16; 6:15)
Those are good shoes to walk in.