Day 3. Things aren't always what they seem.

Good Morning Everyone!

I fell asleep watching a movie with my husband so I didn't get to post my blog last night. Anyway, yesterday (day 3) was well, educational. I had someone ask me yesterday after they read my blog if I was struggling with judging people. My first answer was "no not really" but then I quickly said wait, yes! Yes, I do. If I would have kept with my first answer I would have been a lying! In the past I thought I did great at not judging others. I always thought that I was nice and always gave people the benefit of the doubt. Which I still am and do those things but as I moved one day forward in my journey of walking with no shoes I only realized greater how much I actually do have thoughts about others. I think because I have started this journey it has awakened me to things that I was not aware about myself before. It is so hard to not think about what I would do in a situation instead of what someone else has done. I think what is important though is that boundaries are made and you realize what you have thought or done and recognize that it was not really the right thing to say, do, or think. Imagine how bad it would be if no one ever realized what they were doing. I think that is the problem with judging! I also think that there are different degrees of it. Now this doesn't mean that one type is "better to do" than the other per say but I just think there are different ways you can judge. I'll give you an example of what I mean by this. If I see a chick walking down the street with pink hair with tattoos and piercings all over her I don't give it a thought where as others may think "oh there goes trouble" Now I'm pretty good at not judging people in that way except the fact that I might think to myself "dang I love her hair, wish I had the balls to pull that off" which can still be argument-ed as a judgement. I have realized that the judgement I am horrible about is giving my un asked for opinion of what I would do if I were in someone else's shoes.  When I figured this out, I found it VERY Ironic they way I chose to start this blog and that I chose to do this blog on the topic I did. I have been on my journey of awakening for probably about the past year or so now and I believe very much that once you are on that journey you subconsciously do, say, and think things that you are supposed to be working on in your life without even realizing it.  Now back to my conversation with the person above that asked me if I was having trouble judging people. We went on to talk about this very subject. They shared with me that they once had an experience that they had realized that what they thought about a few people were the total opposite once they met those people. I think it is ironic that I had this conversation with them because something happened to me later on that evening when I went to church. Now last week or so I was talking to another friend from church. We were talking about someone we knew mutually and how she was trying to get her to come to church. I'm not sure whether I said this out loud or thought it but I said " She will never come to church". Well guess what. I walk in last night at church and guess who was there! The person I thought would never come! I judged her wrongly! Hmmm. I just had a thought, Church! Now there is a huge topic to cover on judging! And guess what our sermon talked a little bit about last night... You guessed it! :) I am being hit over the head with this thing left and right. I bet a lot of you who know me didn't realize I even went to church. Well I do and I am happy with the one I go to. Why you ask? Because they are the only church I have been to that realizes and shares with people that we should "Love with Feet". (meaning get up and do something to help) No matter who you are, no judgements, just love with feet! :) Interesting how they just came out with this slogan around the same time that I had the thought for us all to take off our shoes and walk together! I think I will leave you with this.. In these past few months even though I still judge like crazy, I have realized that I want to speak out about everyone "getting along" helping each other out, loving each other, no matter who you are, what you do, what you look like, who you love, I want to Take off my shoes and Love with Feet! I just hope that everyone else in this world wants to do the same.

Day 2. This is hard!

Wow! Someone didnt want me to post this thing today. After an hour of trying to get my nook keyboard to come up I am ready to share with you guys day 2. Today started out good. I actually had a conversation with a man getting my coffee at the store on my way to work that in the past I probably never would have. I always have felt funny talking to strange men in public. I would always just say the polite hi and be on my way but today I stepped out of my comfort zone. We only talked about the coffe, snow and my car but hey I finally gave myself a chance to realize that strange men in public really arent always strange. Another thing I did without thinking today was helped out a person in need without even meeting or knowing them. Now I will not get into specifics and actually some of you will know what I am talking about only because you were involved with it tonight but I immeadiately felt the need to say Id help. Others asked how we knew they needed it and if we were sure they did but at that moment in time I didnt care. I thought to myself "no shoes megan". It didnt matter if they truly needed it or not. I knew that this was a chance to make a difference even if it were a small one. As for the rest of the day in between the beginning and end there were lots of moments where I felt I could have done a lot better job walking barefoot. There were lots of moments where I felt like crawling in a hole because I knew that I just thought a bad judgement thought and knew it was wrong. But knowing it was wrong didnt stop me. The two things I did accomplish in doing good today doesnt even put a small dent in all the judgement I have cast today. The biggest thing today has opened my eyes to is that I judge people way more than I ever cared to realize before and this is going to be a lot harder than I thought! As I continue on this journey I hope I can still remember to keep whispering to my self the phrase " no shoes " and maybe after some time this will get easier. Until then though its still one selfless act one split second thought one moment one conversation one smile at a time that I will work on walking a day with out shoes.

The Beginning of "A Day Without Shoes"

Hello Everyone!

This is my first Blog ever! I decided to start one because I had a thought. Everyone knows and has said the saying "If I were in their shoes" or "Why don't you try walking a mile in my shoes". Well I thought to myself how about if we all just took our shoes off and quit the judgement!? I am making a promise to my self and God that I will live my life like that day by day and write about it here. Now I know I will have struggles with this. As much as I would like to think that this is going to be easy for me given how much I love peace I also know I am human and will make mistakes. I hope by writing here everyday that I will inspire more people to take the challenge to "take off their shoes" and start living life and treating others the way we all should and all walk along this road of life together! Please join me in my new journey you never know where it might take us! Till next time... PEACE!