The day I got the bird...

Well...I thought I would tell you a story with a revelation of some sort to it for me. Kara and I were out at lunch the other day...taking care of a few things and I had to stop in traffic to cross the street. So...I got in the turning lane and then it happened.

HONK!! HONK!!! "Get out of the road!" I hear as they pass by. I ...was not having a good day...and I gave him a look and laid on my horn. I can't go anywhere you idoit!!! Then it happened...He gave me the bird. At first I thought...oh buddy...I want to jerk you out of the car and tell you what I think and show you I cannot move right now unless he'd like for me to cause a wreck...but oh no...I was in HIS WAY...I had slowed HIM DOWN...I had stopped him from getting where ever he was going...then I thought...I bet people have given God the bird before and didn't even realize what they were doing.

Now, hang on...don't freak out on me...just stay with me here...

Things happen in our lifes and we just totally freak...totally want to scream...cry...cuss...fuss...complain...all the above...so we are like giving God the bird...when just maybe...HE sees the road ahead...He is trying to do the right thing...sometimes when God stops things in your life or even throws a few curve balls...you maybe just need to stop and wait too.

I am talking about those daily struggles we have in our lives...and how we respond to them. I failed misreably today...I am having surgery monday (removing my gallbladder) and dr. office told me how much I owed and you would of thought the world had ended. I cried...I screamed...may of cussed out of shear panic...became so upset...I told nurse I wasn't having the surgery. Then my voice of reason came in...Eric...honey...everything is fine...you are having the surgery and there is nothign to worry about...and he was right. A few bumps in the rd...like the normal stresses in life...are not so big ...that we can't just stop and wait!


I love you Eric Smith...thanks for always being my voice of reason. Eric and I are very different in many ways...but God knows what HE is doing...like always...He gave me Eric as my voice of reason...my calm in the storm...my constant...I know God brought us together for that reason...He knew I would need him and I hope I do that for him too. .