The boot is the foundation of my faith. When my faith is well founded with a good boot size, only then can I get up and start walking. After I made this analogy, I discovered a quote in the Qur'an, "Have you not considered how Allah presents an example, [making] a good word like a good tree, whose root is firmly fixed and its branches [high] in the sky?" Simple coincidental occurrence? But to me, it means a whole lot more.

"How did you know it was the right time for you to convert?" After all, I was reading, listening, believing completely and changing my outlook on life, but I still didn't know what the 'right' time was. My friend said, "There isn't a right time, Sister. Knowledge will always come to you along the way. You just have to know that your heart is there."

Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,And sorry I could not travel bothAnd be one traveler, long I stoodAnd looked...