New You

Hopewriter’s Challenge
Day 1 New You

I laid my head back and leaned into the leather massage chair as the warm water trickled over my feet filling up the basin they were soaking in.

A kind eyed woman began to scrub the calluses off my tired feet. The summer heat had taken its toll and my feet were painfully cracked and dry. She scraped and scrubbed, cleaned and moisturized finishing with some light pink polish.

As I walked out to my car I let out a sigh of relief I felt like a new woman. A simple pedicure did the trick. Not just my feet felt better but my soul did too.

As the new year begins, the pressure to improve myself weighs heavy; make new habits, try new hair styles and I think desperately, maybe this will be the year I can really change. But You, God, are showing me that newness comes in the receiving not the doing.

It comes in letting You love me and wash my feet. I do the inviting, the welcoming, the letting. You do the loving and the holding of those hard places.

I become new because you are in me I am in You. You pick me up and draw me near,and say You’ll never leave. You make your home in me. And I find my home; my place of non judgmental acceptance and kind affection in You. Your love is making my ugly, beautiful. It is making me new.

Jesus says, “Live in me.Make your home in me just as I do in you.” John 15:4 (Msg)