PAY ATTENTION!

Proverbs 4:25-27
25 Let your eyes look straight ahead,
fix your gaze directly before you.

26 Make level paths for your feet
and take only ways that are firm.

27 Do not swerve to the right or the left;
keep your foot from evil.

I am not the best driver in the world - I have never claimed that I am, it took me 4 attempts to get my license, (for all Americans reading this, our test is harder! Not quite 4 times to pass harder, but it is harder and longer!) Anyways, I'm not that good; I do offer to drive, only because I think that it is mannerly, not 'cause I'm any Michael Schumacher behind the wheel. So today, I'm driving out of my street and I'm rounding the corner and smack! I mount the kerb! Wow, I'm an idiot! I know even before I get out my seat that the tire didn't survive. I'm trying to think how to get out of this predicament. Instantly I think to call someone, but being as prideful as I am, I can't! (And anyway, they are all at THQ!) Knowing that I am not calling for help, I call my boss, and he is charming as usual, tells me not to worry, that he'll see me when he sees me.

So I get to the boot and start to pull out the spare tire. Of course, I have never changed a tire before in my life - it surely can't be that difficult! Women change tires everyday! I get the spare out, and then start looking for the jack - it's screwed into my boot! So, I look for the wrench thing, and it's not there! So, I walk to the house - about 200 yards from where I was - and I gather a selection of wrenches - hopefully one will work! I get to the car, get the jack out, and then I learn my second lesson of the day; my first being make sure there is a wrench thing in your car in the first place; the second, don't change your tire on a hill! So after the car falling off the jack, I drive it to the flat part of the road and within 10 minutes I was Wonder Woman herself! Vicotry was mine!

I thought my lapse in concentration was God's way of getting a hold of me; some have said that I over spiritualize everything, but, based on the fact that He made everything, I cannot be convinced of that! I was meant to get up and go to the gym before work, and I didn't; that annoyed me. I was supposed to do my devotions before that, and I didn't. So I thought that it was His way of grabbing my attention because I hadn't spent time with Him this morning. My discipline for quiet times is poor, and He is always the one short changed when time is short. I don't know what I think of that... maybe just annoyed with myself.

I know that should my dad have been around, I'd have called him, and he would have changed it; Dad or David. I had to do it myself though. In our spiritual walks, when we mess up, God is always there to pick up the pieces - today, He wasn't gone, I spoke to Him the whole time I was changing my tire, but He wasn't gonna change my tire for me, I had to do that myself. Sometimes it takes hitting the kerb before realising that we are not concentrating on the road ahead, so keep your eyes up; I hit the kerb had to steer back towards Him; which meant admitting I was wrong in some way, talk about pride! Please do not misunderstand me, you aren't gonna smack the kerb when you don't have your quiet times - I bet He tries to catch your attention in one way or another, may not be as severe as this, but He will try - wow He's awesome!

Safe and happy motoring!

(I just wrote this entire blog thinking I was being really cool, writing tire the British way, I was wrong! This is a British tyre; this is an American tire! Pants!)