so i witnessed a pretty bad wreck today. a cab was making a left turn while a brand new corvette decided to test its power and make it through a fastly changing light. the vette guessed wrong. the cab’s front end was totally demolished, the front left quarter panel of the vette was detached, and there were several other holes in the vette’s body (why anyone would want a fiberglass car is beyond me). i, being the good citizen i am, pulled over and called 911 for the first time in my life. it was a very surreal experience and luckily (praise Jesus!), both men escaped without a scratch on them.

anyways, this event got me to thinking about how extremely breakable life is. i dunno, maybe God was giving me a wake-up call or something today. maybe i had begun to take some things for granted and He felt the need to break me by showing His sovereignty over life and death. i don’t have any profound or cheesy thing like “because of this i’ve learned that we should live life to the fullest” to say, but i definitely took notice of the fragility of life today. and i think it was the first time i’ve ever consciously done so. i’ve always been the kind of person who never got that. i’m a stoic and things like 9/11 or war or whatever rarely get to me. i don’t remember thinking, “wow. 3,000 people died today.” but today, though no one died in the accident, it got to me. maybe i’m going soft, but after thinking about it all day i’ve come to the conclusion that it’s one way that God’s preparing me for my life ahead. for my career in working with high school and college kids, for my marriage, and for fatherhood. i NEED to realize the fragility of life, because it’s only through that realization that i could make those three things work and it’s only through that realization that i could ever learn to really, truly, and deeply love other people. anyways, those are some things that have been swirling through my mind. maybe next blog will be a little less heavy. until then……….