Let's trade shoes........

     If you were granted the chance to trade shoes for one day ......who's shoes would you wear?  Would they be the shiny shoes?  The shoes that have that amazing NEW SMELL?  Or the ones with all the holes in them?  Maybe you would choose the ones that are covered with layers of dust, which I am sure have been worn by someone who has done physical labor all their lives.  Perhaps you would choose those shoes that had claimed victory over and over agian in several competitions. What about shoes that had chains attached indicating years of  bondage?  Just stop and ask yourself WHO WOULD YOU TRADE SHOES WITH? 
     I have actually seen people trade shoes with others.  One just happened not to long ago in my own family.  My soon to be married daughter and her fiance were downtown Salt Lake City taking invitation pictures.  It was a freezing day.  Needless to say she chose the wrong shoes to wear, thinking that the weather would be warm.  But it was freezing and as the night came closer it even got more cold.  Her toes were frozen, but she didn't complain. But her amazing fiance must have sensed her being cold and he simply took off his shoes and said here wear these..... she hesitated and then he took her shoes from off her feet and put his big shoes on her feet.  That amazing man carried her shoes and walked the rest of the night in stocking feet on the freezing cold ground, never once worrying about himself only the women he was about to marry. I am sure you can all imagine how I felt about this man at that moment!
     Since that moment I have asked myself over and over who's shoes I would trade with.  I have even looked at tons of shoes as people have passed by me several times. Eventually I came up with at least two dozen if not more shoes that I would gladly trade with.  The problem is that I am all most positive that some of them I would NEVER trade back.
     However there is one that I have felt like that has actually traded shoes with me over the course of my life time and sometimes I haven't even realized that he has.  Can YOU guess???????  Thats right!!!!  The Savior, Jesus Christ.  I have asked myself over and over have I gladly traded shoes with him?  Would I gladly trade shoes with him?  Would I even give up my shoes for him?  And most important what would happen if I did?
     Everyday of our lives, we are given the chance to trade shoes with someone.  Can you imagine that?  Everyday....... In my personnel life I know for a fact that anyone's shoes that I traded with I would make sure that I returned them on the POSITIVE SIDE......  I know I would.  Why? you might ask.... Well because that is what has happened to me over and over agian and if I know how it feels to be on the POSITIVE SIDE of life then why in the world wouldn't I want that for EVERYONE ELSE............xoxoxo