I do not know whether other people notice shoes that are abandoned out in public, but I do. I have seen them on the side of the road, in parking lots, and even right in the middle of busy hotspots like the Power and Light District.
(I'm not sure how one loses a shoe when out and about.
-Is it rejected and cast aside purposely?
-Did it fall off and the owner didn't notice?
-Did it fall out of a vehicle when the door opened?
-Was it left by a person being kidnapped, to leave a clue, to help law enforcement to find and rescue him?
-Did the owner simply get tired of it, and just say, "Shoo"?
Sorry, these possibilities came to mind, and I ran with it.)
Whenever I do see a shoe left out in the open square, I am reminded of a certain verse of Scripture:
In Mark 8:36, Jesus says, "For what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul?"
I like to use it as an object lesson. If I see it while I'm witnessing or street preaching, I will often point it out, and springboard from the lost sole to the lost soul and the Gospel.
Today, when I saw the shoe pictured above out in a QuikTrip parking lot, I decided to make it into a Truth dispenser. I wrote a note on a card, put some tracts in it, and placed it where it could be seen.
From a shoe that used to leave tracks, to a shoe where tracts have been left for others.
Abortion must be abolished.
