A clean pair of feet
With today being Maundy Thursday, there is a modern slant on today’s action – which is to ‘polish someone’s shoes for them’. This is a modern take on Jesus washing the disciples’ feet at the Last Supper.
Talking to my mum today, she has had her own Maundy Thursday experience. She had her hip replaced six weeks ago, and today was the day that she could finally get rid of her compression stockings. As she has been wearing these (not the same pair of course) for the last six weeks, her skin underneath had seen better days!
So, she got a family friend to wash her feet and felt just so much better. The fact that it was Maundy Thursday was just a quirk of fate really – it was only when a friend of hers pointed out what the day was that she got the symbolism.
Now I haven’t quite got a dozen people to clean their shoes for (and no, I’m quite happy not to get any more thanks), but I have got a dozen shoes to clean – as there are six of us. So, that is what I am away to do now – they are lined up and waiting for me………
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