I still think Vision Improves With Age

My car broke down today. I´d love to believe it´s part of God´s plan, but it doesn´t take a genius to figure out that that a ve-huh-cuhl grows old a little faster than dogs do. Thus, a 20-year-old car is gonna need to be ´put down´soon. -Especialy if it has an ah-toe-matik transmission. So, my vision exercise for today is: 1. Be grateful if you´ve learned sometime in the past not to burn most bridges. I need to get places, and I might need a favor or two. 2. Choose either to stress or to depend on God. Of course, I am depending on God cuz any effort of mine is futile. I can´t fix it. I can´t buy a new one. So, I´ll cry on Daddy´s shoulder. Why...WHY do I wait until things break to fix them, when the brokeness is SO paralyizing to daily routines and tasks???? Why??? Why wait? Hind sight? Not going there. The fact of the matter is: I need a car, (and a washing machine), tomorrow..No. Make that today. It´s after midnight. Something to be grateful for: I´m safe & sound despite the fact that my car broke down in a desolate place...If it had stopped less than 1/2 a mile earlier, my cel wouldn´t have had signal. It was on my way home from work & I know the route like the back of my hand. Without signal, I would have had to walk that desolate road to get help. I wasn´t going to camp out, so I called a tow truck. Then, when the truck was almost there, (about an hour and a half later, and counting, and after 2 ve-huh-cuhlz side swiped limo), I thought I´d try & make the car go a little further, which it did, so I cancelled the tow truck service. I got about a mile down the road to an even more pitch-dark desolate situation, with no shoulder, so I couldn´t pul over. I had to wait for another wrecker to come. 3. Vision lesson #3: Not retrospect, but introspect....Today it dawned on me that when I turn things over for others to take care of, or IF I ask for help and I actually get some help, then I have a bad habit of taking things away from the one who is helping, only to find out AGAIN that this was something I handed over precisely because I couldn´t take care of it myself! Am I walking in circles? <- Another thing to watch out for...Hah! Now I´m suspicious of my own orientation. (Oh! The danger!) Father! Please, protect me from myself! OK, already! This is just too much Vision. I think I´ll get to bed and dream about walking straight... Good night! Sleep tight! Don´t let the bed bugs bite! If they do, squeeze them tight! And maybe they´ll come back another night! =-D Hugs!