Before I left Vancouver going to Winnipeg for the SFC NLS, I had fitted a brown combat boots but decided not to buy it since I don’t need it. While I was in Winnipeg, it was colder there that I really had to wear my boots. Right after NLS I unpacked my clothes for the weekend and repacked my whole luggage to bring with me to Calgary since I came with the Fourniers driving back. After 30hours (we slept over at Regina) we got to Calgary. I unpacked and then I found out that I left my boots in Winnipeg.
I was worried since it was snowing in Calgary and colder and that’s the only appropriate shoes that I have. Since then I decided to by a pair of boots. Then I remember the brown combat boots that I fitted in Vancouver, that’s what I want to get.
I did not find it in Calgary and now that I am here in Edmonton we’ve been to the biggest mall in Canada and other smaller malls but it is either they only have size 10 and I am just size 5½ – 6 or they only have the black one. After a lot of reasoning and I even prayed about it, I decided to raise my budget and get whatever is the most appropriate to the weather and the closest similarity in terms of design of the brown combat boots. (I did not know that the shop where I saw it in Vancouver was a generic shop and not really branded, so all their stuff are relatively cheaper).
So I prepared myself that I will not find the same design. We went to Southgate and went to the shoe store there. Then in this one particular shoe store, they have the exact design but it is more expensive. Since I was ready to buy it, I got it after 2 hours.
I was happy and I feel contented and told myself no shoes for me for the rest of the year anymore.
With the whole process there are things I realized.
- When there is something that we like, it will take a while for us to forget about it
- When we know that we really need something, we do everything to get it to the point of going beyond our comfort zone
- At the point that we accept that some things cannot and are not for us, the Lord will give us something similar but so much better we just have to let go of it and wait.