New Shoes

Every day at work when the weather is nice my feet are comforted by a pair of tennis shoes. My father taught me when I first started to travel as a salesman that it was best to bring two pair of shoes with you. Feet sweat, the inside of shoes get wet and if one rotates a pair each day both sets will last much longer.

So I have done this my whole working life in whatever type of work I have done. There are two pair of tennis shoes I rotate for Spring, Summer and Fall and two pair of more weather appropriate shoes durable for our Michigan winters. It so happened that both pairs of my tennis shoes wore out at the same time this Spring and were replaced by another two that cost twice as much as the old ones.

One of the old pair was still good enough to use around the yard until I did some power washing for a few hours last week and then they needed to hit the trash. Today, not wanting to spend a lot for a replacement pair to use in the yard, I went to the nearby Menards and got a slick pair for about $42. After the rebate - $38! If they last only through next year I will be happy.

Today I also started a new blog which is called - For Ex-Catholics Only

Having walked in the shoes of someone who has left Catholicism I understand that there is an awful lot of misdirected and unnecessary hate and suspicion directed toward both the Catholic Church in particular and Catholics in general. My theology has changed, it is quite different in many important ways from that which is taught in the Catholic Church, but I know many Catholics who love our Lord dearly and who live lives that reflect that love.

As a working guy I don't really have enough time to create new material for two blogs and so from time to time I am going to post there links to some of my old posts that hopefully will offer instruction and encouragement. In pursuit of that I have been going through some of the posts of my II Timothy 2:2 blog from some years ago.

Keeping with the Catholic theme, here is a post from 4/15/07 which gives my thoughts about praying to the saints and Mary and is called:  Saint Tifying Grace

P.S. So far the new shoes feel great. I'd let you know how they work in the yard but it's really hard to have two blogs and yard work.