Today's Message

As the sun rose on this 7th day, it shined over a broken mass that wsa the remains of a once loyal and hard working sandal that had met its end earlier in the days before. It’s sole was detached from the straps that once helped transport the right foot of an island girl who trusted in her sandals that had only just met the young tender age of 9 months. (Cue church organ, softly in the background)The young girl almost had lost all hope, fearing she would have to abandon her sandals and lay them to rest in the waste bin of forgotten soles. But refusing to lose faith, she found her sandals salvation in the form of electrical tape, and with that tape her sandal would be healed! With hope, ingenuity, and luck…she will rise ready to put her faith and her foot back in these sandals, and she will walk in this once broken sandal again! Can I get an Amen! Amen!Ironically enough, I skipped church today and came in to write this email…shh don’t tell God.So if you haven’t guessed yet, I was walking the other day and my sandal broke, all three straps on one side completely ripped away from the sole, done, dead, finished.I'd like to thank pisi koa Steve for coming out and meeting me with some flips for me so I wouldn't have to walk all the way back to Tefisi with bare feet...I have no idea how the tongans do it...they must have feet of iron, steel, and any other hard material usually used to metaphorically discribe tough...I thought at first my sandals were gone forever, it was pretty bad. But today I decided that instead of giving up on my sandals right away, I was going to try my best to fix them, and my best was 5 minutes and electrical tape. But I walked in my sandals today. They’re going to break again, probably sooner than later, but my point is that 5 minutes of thought and effort bought me at least one more day of use, and statistically speaking that’s a lot of return on the amount of time I put in. Leads me to think that putting just 5 more minutes, hours, days (you see where that’s going) can be well worth it in the end. So if you’re getting ready to throw out your pair of broken sandals, maybe give them the five minutes…( you get the metaphor right?)This message is brought to you by the letter ‘S’