More Than Red Shoes ...

Thanks again Katie Han for the inspiration to free my red shoes from closet captivity.  It brought much discussion and laughter in the lobby after worship last Sunday and got me thinking …

I remember another woman who had a rockin’ pair of red shoes … Dorothy in the Wizard of Oz.  Dorothy was led to believe those shoes would make her invincible in the midst of her trials journeying down the Yellow Brick Road.  That was until Glinda the Good Witch revealed to her the truth: 

You’ve always had the Power, my dear, you just had to find it for yourself.

We hear this message all around us.  We are told that nothing is out of our reach if we just work hard enough it.  But in my almost 50 years of living, I have come to see this as misleading.  And this is especially true with with objectives that matter most like becoming more Christ-like, reflecting it to others, and impacting a world with acts of justice and mercy.   

Accomplishing things of the Spirit – requires the Spirit.  And as I said on Sunday which bares repeating:

The Spirit works best through the person with the humbled and receptive heart rather than the person standing in the rockin’ red shoes or whatever the male equivalent of that might be. 

My prayer is that we all grow in the humility and receptivity needed for the Spirit to enter in.  For with it comes the release from playing God to self and others, and ultimately our best chance for witnessing His transformative work around us and in us. 

Your Fellow Journeywoman,

Pastor Dawn