What is it?
WHAT STOPS YOU ?
What slows you down. . .
What DELAYS YOU ?
What makes you proceed with caution. . .
What redirects you
What’ll discourage you. . .
What will dampen you resolve. . .
What will end your quest. . .
Interesting questions, huh?
Sometimes it doesn’t take much to deter us. . .
It doesn’t have to be a sign
or a natural or unnatural disaster. . .
Sometimes it can just be as random as a
thin sliver of metal
That’s what about did me in
on the way to Church
knowing that I not only needed to get there in time
to Lead Worship/Preach
but to hurry out and go do a funeral some 40 miles away
to hurry across town to do another funeral
so a flat tire was not in my plans. . .
s e l d o m
are bad things. . .
THE TAKE AWAY:
When bad things happen
G O O D P E O P L E S H O W U P
Two kind Caring Catalysts
Steve and Craig were both at Church early that morning
and when I told them of my woe
and even bigger woe of not finding a place that was open
to either fix the tire or buy a new one
E V E R Y T H I N G W A S C L O S E D
Steve was going to throw the not-so-effective
DONUT TIRE
and Craig had a better idea of going to a local AUTO ZONE
and put a tire patch on the leak
just as fast as he bought the kit
and I was happily down the road
without a bump or a burp. . .
my biggest problem:
GETTING. . .
I don’t G E T so good
a compliment or a fixed tire. . .
who thought it wouldn’t be the flat tire
and the
FIXING OF IT
would be less of a problem
than my
RECEIVING THE KINDNESS
of having it done. . .
Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm. . .
what does it say
That K I N D N E S S
though severely appreciated
would keep me
S T O P M E
humble me to a
s c r e e c h i n g
h a l t i n g. . .
The Living Sermon
from Steve and Craig
that Sunday Morning
was to teach me
A G A I N
wasn’t to prove. . .
to shame me in knowing
my huge ugly-pimple-of-a-flaw
of not being a good RECEIVER
a GOOD-GETTER. . .
No. . .No. . .NO. . .
the lesson
t o j u s t
G E T
b e t t e r
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