Beautiful Feet
I grew up singing the hymn, “Our God Reigns” by Leonard Smith (1974), as it is found in the Psalter Hymnal of the Christian Reformed Church. Just a verse and a chorus echoing the words of Isaiah 52:7, “How beautiful upon the mountain are the feet of the messenger who announces peace, who brings good news, who announces salvation, who says to Zion, “Your God reigns.” Meet those of us with beautiful feet! At the 2024 University of Dubuque Theological Seminary’s commencement ceremony, my classmate and friend Jerusha exclaimed, “Look at all our different shoes, each shoe style says a lot about who we are as a person. We must take a picture!” As you can see in the picture we have all kinds of different shoes; sandals, moccasins, dress shoes, stilettos, wedges, tennis shoes, open toe, and closed toe. When I look at the picture, I know what shoe belongs to which graduating seminary student. I think about each person and the ministries they are about to enter. When we entered seminary