Happy Feet - good story/inspiration

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In 2006 Warner Brothers produced a movie about a young penguin who was different

from all other penguins. He was different because he had happy feet. He tapped

and danced his way into people’s lives. Perhaps the title was wasted on an

animated penguin because twelve paws, attached to three Mastiff puppies, are the

epitome of happy feet.

Mastiff puppies are big, but their feet are huge. Coordination and gracefulness

don’t visit the Mastiff until they have a lot more experience at life. As

puppies, however, they are just fun to watch. The way they run forces even the

grumpiest person to smile. Happy feet. That’s a name that fits.

My father was in the shoe business his entire life. He used to joke that people

with big feet had a firm “under standing.” I laughed every time he said it, if

for no other reason than he was my dad. I worked my way through Christian

College fitting shoes in my dad’s stores. I have seen every kind of foot there

is and I am fairly certain that the size on ones foot has nothing to do with a

firm understanding.

The Bible, however, has something very important to say about feet. God cares

about what we do with our feet. Proverbs 4:26 warns to “Watch the path of your

feet and all your ways will be established”. There seems to be two kinds of

feet. There are happy feet and unhappy feet.

Unhappy feet follow the wrong path. “For their feet run to evil and they hasten

to shed blood” Proverbs 1:16). Unhappy feet are always in the dark. Feet that

live in darkness are always bumping into painful things. Quite often the blood

that is shed is their own as they run into one painful thing after another.

So, how does God define happy feet? They are feet that walk in the light. King

said, “Your word is a lamp to my feet, and a light to my path” (Psalm

119:105). “But if we walk in the Light as He Himself is in the Light, we have

fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus His Son cleanses us from all

sin” (1 1:7). Happy feet live in the light and surround themselves with

people of the light. They not only walk in the light, they show others the way

to the light. Isaiah 52:7 says, “How lovely on the mountains Are the feet of him

who brings good news, Who announces peace And brings good news of happiness, Who

announces salvation, And says to Zion, " Your God reigns! "

Sometimes we get so wrapped up in the big picture that we lose our way. We look

at the things we cannot do and we draw back. We remember the times that we

slipped and fell, and are apprehensive to get up and try again. We consider the

business of our lives and think that we could not possibly do anything else, and

pass over opportunities that God places before us. With all that we face, how do

we develop happy feet? Proverbs 4:26, answers the question very simply. “Watch

the path of your feet and all your ways will be established”.

Happy feet can be large or small. They can be young or old. They can have

bunions, bumps and bruises and still be happy feet. They may bear the scars of

broken toes from years of walking in darkness and still enjoy the fruit of

happiness. If we use our feet to walk in the footsteps of Jesus then our feet

can be happy feet. Like , we can say, “My steps have held fast to your

paths. My feet have not slipped” (Psalm 17:5).

What do your feet, and the path that you walk say about you?

[Guest guest]

Gretchen,

Thanks for sharing that inspirational story with us. It is so true!

I especially like paragraph 7. I read that when I was having a blue

day, and it helped a lot.

Bonnie