Old Shoes

This past Friday I celebrated twenty seven years of marriage. I was twenty six when I married so I have been married over half my life. I don't profess to be an expert on marriage. I compare marriage to a pair of leather shoes. The day you buy the shoes they are tight and confine your feet. Everyone says you need to break them in. So you try lots of things to soften the leather. Each day the shoes feel better on your feet. But there are days when the shoes give you blisters and pain. You feel like these shoes will never fit your feet right. But you keep wearing them for various reasons. Years pass. The heels of the shoes get run down. The leather is scuffed and scratched. You see prettier and newer shoes but you have had these shoes forever. So you just keep wearing the shoes because now they fit just right.