04/12/2024
Its been two years since I lost my brakes with a fully loaded trailer in Hebron Indiana, rolling through four lane intersections, through a front parking lot around a building to the back parking lot. After thanking Jesus getting a tow truck, renting a pickup, we finished the run. Oddly enough Garys return to my home with Mike was almost on the anniversary, just missed it. It was the start of a rebirth of sorts. I spent a lot of years focused on the wrong things, success is not to be measured by worth of your surroundings, but the people who surround you. If you look back in history, and not so far, our values were different, very different. Food on the table for your family a roof over your head and prayer as you enjoyed both. They didn't have 5G speeds, their cars no gps and you didn't have keyless start. You could wind them up though, try that in your Tesla. We were not robbing mother earth of its oxygen making wilderness and forests. You pushed your mower and the blades spun and you never needed gas. Your phone had a cord and crank, and you shared with those who didn't have one. You didn't stream movies, if you were lucky you had black and white in a snowstorm to watch. Yes those times we didn't have the medical we do now, but now we have things that cause so many health problems. I think about the progression the pros and cons of it all. I no longer care what my neighbors have, just that I have good ones. Nothing I have is top of the line, but what I have checks all the boxes for me. It is ok to be content and challenge myself in new ways that do not require me to posture. Don't like me, fine, be on your way. God will judge the world and those in it in the end, of that I am sure. I'm just so grateful that that day two years ago when my brakes went out he watched over me and gave me the chance to feel like I do, rite now, two years later. And to those who are still in my life, thank you for sticking it out with me. Lets make the most of today, and challenge it tomorrow, and the day after. Pay it forward, in some way today. May you find what's really important before its to late.
