If The Shoe Doesn't Fit

If you were to identify one of the darker strains in my existence, you might summarize it under a label like "a tendency to assume false guilt at the drop of a hat."

If you've never exerienced false guilt, let me assure you that it can get rather overwhelming trying to keep the peace of the world by blaming all its problems on yourself. And feeling guilty every time you say "no" to anyone doesn't help along a peaceful existence either.

God reminds me freqently that it is His job to convict me of sin. And that I am in sin when I assume His jobs as my own. One of these days maybe I'll have learned it for good. "If the shoe doesn't fit, Katie," I'll no longer have to say, kindly, but oh-so-firmly, "don't wear it."