“Shoe Pile.”
It might seem a bit odd, a pile of shoes next to a shoe rack. I often think that when I walk by that spot in our house. After all, shouldn’t those shoes be properly stowed in the rack?
But then if you count the shoes, you pretty quickly note there are more pairs if shoes than cubby holes to hold the shoes. And what you likely don’t know is that the rack is meant for kids’ shoes. Mostly, anyway. And those size 9 green crocs are too big for any of our kids, in any event.
“Wait…”, you think, “…what’s a pile of shoes got to do with priorities, anyway?” Actually, I’m not exactly sure, but let’s see if we can get there together.
Sometimes, maybe a lot of times, we’re in a hurry to get to the next thing, once we get home. And so we throw off our shoes upon arrival, and they end up in the pile.
Priorities.
What ever it was, it was more important that putting away your shoes, and maybe other stuff too, in the moment. I’m sure some folks might be appalled at this approach, this blatant disregard of order. But it’s the way it is often times around here.
There’s another example of priorities that comes to mind. I have this phrase in my Outlook calendar that comes up every morning at 5am:
“Every day, start this way: What matters most? Family, Friends, PB, Friends, Community.”
It’s a reminder to keep my priorities straight every day. At least for me, for the priorities I have myself. People mean a lot to me, my family and friends, my clan, my tribe…and never want to lose sight of that.
Other things fall by the way side often due to these priorities, things I’ve committed to, but that’s the way it goes sometimes.
I do my best. I sometimes fall short. And when I do, I take a deep breath, and I keep going forward.
Priorities. Get ’em. Keep ’em straight. GOOD.
Even if the shoes end up in pile. 🙂
