January 12, 2012
Green Light
While driving early one morning the traffic was sparse and I was behind
a car that was creeping up to a red light. Apparently the driver was trying to
arrive at the light just as it turned green so that he wouldn’t have to stop. I
chuckled when he had to chicken out and tap his breaks because his timing was
off. We believers play a similar game with God. We manipulate our timing in
hopes that it will be God’s timing and He’ll give us a green light. “As the heavens are higher than the earth,
so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts than your thoughts.”
(Isaiah 55:9 NIV)
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Gail;
-----Some of us would want a crystal ball for seeing far enough ahead to time our actions and correlate our decisions. I would rather have an aerosol spray which would clear away all the mental discrepancies and leave the truth about everythings plainly apparent. It would be a way of truly understanding all things involved in a situation rather than merely knowing that a certain event will happen in a certain situation. I am one who usually will not run up to a red light and stop only to go again. I understand the amount of energy stored in the forward momentum of three thousand pounds of mass, the heat generation required to move that energy into the ground to stop to then only reproduce that energy once again through heat generation in rolling those three thousand pounds back up to speed. If we were required to drop pennies into someone else’s locked box on the dashboard for every cent’s worth of brake pad and tire rubber worn away by the heat of slowing this mass, and then to drop more in again for every penny’s worth of gasoline burned in replacing that heat, and all the engine wear the heat itself creates, and all the oil dirtied in trying to lubricate against friction, we would become acutely aware of what simply stopping at a red light costs.
-----Honestly, though several dollars a month float out of your pocket just for the opportunity to stop at a red light, it isn’t really a budget busting problem. And I don’t observe my own frugal principle for my cash savings as much as for the simple sense of not heating up the breaks just to heat up the engine to not get somewhere any quicker. So when I’m not really in a contemplative mood you will see me too running up to a red light merely to break only so I can once again accelerate. There is something normal about running up to stop. I think it is a saving of all the thinking energies for more important matters.
Love you all,
Steve Corey
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