Sunday, September 17, 2006
Traffic
So, I was driving home from church this morning and I noticed as we were passing by the Holiday Inn that there were alot of cops there. Interesting.
About half way home I decided to pull into the left lane and pass the truck in front of me. I checked my mirrors and shoulder checked. There was a White Chevy in the left lane but he was quite a ways behind so I pulled over. I checked my rear view mirror as soon as I was in the left lane and noticed that the driver of the Chevy had considerably sped up and was continuing to speed up. I thought "Wow he must not be paying attention" so I sped up to pass quicker and get out of his road before he smashed into the back of me. Well he sped up even faster pulled onto the shoulder and ditch and passed me going well over 140 (I was going 120kms/h.). Well that scared me pretty bad so I just slowed down pulled into the right lane and continued driving.
What I didn't realize was that, Dad had been following right behind the Chevy and saw the whole thing. So Dad decided to get the White Chevy's license plate number and report this. The white Chevy notices that he is being followed and speeds up even more. He merges to the right lane and when he gets to the turn around between the divided highway he makes a left hand turn across all the lanes and heads in the exact opposite direction that we are driving. Well, we decided he was pretty dangerous so we drove home and had a coffee.
I wonder if the cops at the Holiday Inn are looking for a White Chevy?
About half way home I decided to pull into the left lane and pass the truck in front of me. I checked my mirrors and shoulder checked. There was a White Chevy in the left lane but he was quite a ways behind so I pulled over. I checked my rear view mirror as soon as I was in the left lane and noticed that the driver of the Chevy had considerably sped up and was continuing to speed up. I thought "Wow he must not be paying attention" so I sped up to pass quicker and get out of his road before he smashed into the back of me. Well he sped up even faster pulled onto the shoulder and ditch and passed me going well over 140 (I was going 120kms/h.). Well that scared me pretty bad so I just slowed down pulled into the right lane and continued driving.
What I didn't realize was that, Dad had been following right behind the Chevy and saw the whole thing. So Dad decided to get the White Chevy's license plate number and report this. The white Chevy notices that he is being followed and speeds up even more. He merges to the right lane and when he gets to the turn around between the divided highway he makes a left hand turn across all the lanes and heads in the exact opposite direction that we are driving. Well, we decided he was pretty dangerous so we drove home and had a coffee.
I wonder if the cops at the Holiday Inn are looking for a White Chevy?
Friday, September 15, 2006
Well now it's more than messy . .
. . . it's broken in half. Yeah that's right someone sat on my desk today and it broke in half. Yup well at least its friday and I can wait till monday to get it fixed.
Thursday, September 14, 2006
Crooked roads, Straight Lives
I have found that there are two ditches on every road whether the road be straight or crooked. Sometimes if the sun shines just right across the land the one side of the road is dark and depressing and the other is bright and colorful depending where the sun is.
This is the way life is sometimes.
You are on the bright side and are having fun, playing with the sunrays, dancing to imaginary music, and so on. You want to share the joy with the people you see lying in the mud on the dark side of the road, but they don’t want to hear of the fun you are having, they want to wallow in that mud because right now they feel like it, and besides who do you think you are just because the sun is shining on your side right now. Maybe it isn’t even the sun at all, just some lightning that won’t last ‘cause a storm is coming.
But then as the sun moves you might find yourself on the dark side of the ditch and often the people on the light side don’t want to know that you are there or if they do they don’t feel like doing anything about it because, they are having fun and they don’t want to know about your troubles. They don’t want to take time from their dancing to find out what led you there or help you get out because, well, you probably did something wrong so you belong there.
This is a very sad problem that we have. We can’t seem to see the light in someone else’s eye because of the darkness in our own, or we can’t see the darkness in someone else’s eye because of the light in our own.
I believe we need to work with those around us and share our light and shed our darkness in spite of where we might be at any given time. For it will be our responsibility to account for our own reaction to light or darkness.
“What profit has the worker from that in which he labors? I have seen the God-given task with which the sons of men are to be occupied. He has made everything beautiful in its time. Also He has put eternity in their hearts, except that no one can find out the work that God does from beginning to end.
I know that nothing is better for them than to rejoice, and to do good in their lives, and also that every man should eat and drink and enjoy the good of all his labor—it is the gift of God.
I know that whatever God does,
It shall be forever.
Nothing can be added to it,
And nothing taken from it.
God does it, that men should fear before Him.
That which is has already been,
And what is to be has already been;
And God requires an account of what is past.”
Ecclesiastes 3: 9 - 15
This is the way life is sometimes.
You are on the bright side and are having fun, playing with the sunrays, dancing to imaginary music, and so on. You want to share the joy with the people you see lying in the mud on the dark side of the road, but they don’t want to hear of the fun you are having, they want to wallow in that mud because right now they feel like it, and besides who do you think you are just because the sun is shining on your side right now. Maybe it isn’t even the sun at all, just some lightning that won’t last ‘cause a storm is coming.
But then as the sun moves you might find yourself on the dark side of the ditch and often the people on the light side don’t want to know that you are there or if they do they don’t feel like doing anything about it because, they are having fun and they don’t want to know about your troubles. They don’t want to take time from their dancing to find out what led you there or help you get out because, well, you probably did something wrong so you belong there.
This is a very sad problem that we have. We can’t seem to see the light in someone else’s eye because of the darkness in our own, or we can’t see the darkness in someone else’s eye because of the light in our own.
I believe we need to work with those around us and share our light and shed our darkness in spite of where we might be at any given time. For it will be our responsibility to account for our own reaction to light or darkness.
“What profit has the worker from that in which he labors? I have seen the God-given task with which the sons of men are to be occupied. He has made everything beautiful in its time. Also He has put eternity in their hearts, except that no one can find out the work that God does from beginning to end.
I know that nothing is better for them than to rejoice, and to do good in their lives, and also that every man should eat and drink and enjoy the good of all his labor—it is the gift of God.
I know that whatever God does,
It shall be forever.
Nothing can be added to it,
And nothing taken from it.
God does it, that men should fear before Him.
That which is has already been,
And what is to be has already been;
And God requires an account of what is past.”
Ecclesiastes 3: 9 - 15
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