A challenge

It's been a few days since I've posted anything on my blog and I have been doing a lot of thinking and preparing mentally for some change in my life and in the life of the people around me. Do you ever look at your life and everything that you have and feel guilty? I do . . . I mean I have so much that I am very thankful for and the things that I don't have that I want are so minor in the grand scheme of things.

Over the past several months I have been making an effort to change some things in my life, including what I eat, how I shop, and trying my best to be a little more "green." There has been another thought in my mind that I have been wrestling with over the last couple months. If you know me well, you know that I have a fetish for shoes. I have about 90 pairs of shoes in my closet right now. This shoe thing has controlled my shopping habits (literally, like today I was at target and I went straight to the shoes, which were on sale, but I resisted :) and a lot of my life.

Ok, so now you know about how much I love shoes and wearing different shoes and having lots of shoes. Well, the thing that I've been wrestling with over the last couple of months is giving away most of my shoes. This is a big struggle for me as a person, because I love my shoes!!! So here is what conclusion I have come to and what I plan to do. I am going to keep my flip flops and only a couple pairs of my shoes that I need, and I am giving the rest away. This is something that is very difficult for me and something that I don't necessarily want to do, but know that I need to. So that's what I'm going to do . . .

Now to the challenge part. I want each person who reads this to think about their "stuff" and find out what you have a hold on like I did with my shoes. Then I want you to give it up, to give it away to make a difference in the world. There is so much stuff going on out there that you may think that my shoes might not make a difference, but I assure you that my shoes and whatever you have will make a difference. It's the little things that we do that make a difference. So find what you are holding on to and give it away!!!