When trouble comes
I damaged the side of the car today trying to merge into a lane after a big food shop at Flemington market.
I am so amazed that some cars just don't want to let you in, you put your blinker on and you slowly make your way to merge and then you hope they will give way to you but no they just did not want to let me in.
After this little car who would not let me in was a big truck and thinking he would let me in, well he didn't and wasn't gonna slow down for the world. Somehow, I then hear a scrape and the back of the car gets damaged.
I was so upset I got out of the car to talk to the bloke and he laughed at me and said "ey, I am in my lane, it's all your fault". What was I to do, I could not climb up and get him to stop and talk to me. So I got in my car and just kept driving.
I was annoyed and upset and of course I rang my Marty to tell him what just happened. My Marty makes all my bad situations better. But from the time the incident happened and I got home I was over it.
"Eh, it's just a car !" I thought to myself. Thank goodness I am not the first to do any damage to this car.
So this incident has got me thinking about who I am and how I deal with situations and the world in general.
The first thing I realized is that I have come along way in relation to how I handle bad situations. The negativity of the situation does not take over anymore. I am thankful that in any bad situation I grow stronger, I learn and I move on.
James 1:2-4 When all kinds of trials and temptations crowd into your lives, don't resent them as intruders, but welcome them as friends! Realize that they come to test your faith and to produce in you the quality of endurance.
I get home and show Marty and say I am sorry and that was that. It is just a material things and not something which I should be worrying about.
The second thing I have realized is being kind, putting other people first is a must!. Had the little car let me in this would not have happened. He was so determined to not let me in and for what to be 2 cars ahead of me!. If in all that I do I can try and put others first I would believe this would make a world of difference to people I meet or come by my path.
So we went home, watched that 16 year old inspirational boater Jessica with my kids. Wow, when she said that she was an ordinary girl with extraordinary dreams and made this dream of sailing around the world come true by believing in herself. Isabelle really was inspired by that statement. Well done Jess!
The evening was spent being with my family, playing soccer at the park, swinging the kids on the swings, sliding down the the slide, running with them and loving them as much as mummies and daddies can. The markets had cheap seafood today so I made some yummy seafood for dinner and Marty made homemade garlic bread. The kids just loved the food we made them and so did I.
Rom 8:35,37-39 Who can separate us from the love of Christ? Can trouble, pain, or persecution? Can lack of clothes and food, danger to life and limb, the threat and force of arms?... No, in all these things we win an overwhelming victory through him who has proved his love for us. I have become absolutely convinced that neither death nor life, neither messenger of Heaven nor monarch of earth, neither what happens today nor what may happen tomorrow, neither a power from on high nor a power from below, nor anything else in God's whole world has any power to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord!
