Yesterday at the Talin church, I commented to Ana Lucia that I liked the shoes she was wearing. With her reaction, you’d have thought she was wearing Jimmy Choo’s! She began to tell me what a blessing those shoes were. She said about 2 weeks ago, her sister-in-law and brother were in Puyo, and literally, on the street saw a pile of trash, and in it they found those beautiful shoes. They knew they were a perfect size for Ana Lucia and brought them home to her. She washed them and cleaned them up real good, and has been wearing them to service ever since.
My heart broke as she told her story, but it couldn’t last long, because she walked so proud in those shoes, as if they had come from a Dillards or Macy’s. And in reality, those things just don’t matter anyway. She had received a blessing from God, and she gladly embraced it. How many of you would be willing to walk in Ana Lucia’s trash found shoes and call it a blessing from God???
By Susan Templet
