Triple C News - September 17, 2021
Hey, everyone!
Can I tell you about something kind of stupid that happened to me a few months ago that touched my heart?
Well, it didn’t happened to me but I saw it happen to someone else…
I mean, it didn’t happen but it almost happened to someone…
Except it didn’t happen to someone, but it almost happened to someTHING…
I’m just glad it didn’t happen to it!
Tina and I were driving over in Turkey Creek with Henry and Maggie when we stopped at the light near the Chik-fila. Blowing along the side of the road was one of those plastic grocery bags you get at Krogers that are on their way out for environmental reasons.
They do pollute everything so there was no reason for me to have any feelings towards it!
But Henry said, “It looks like it’s trying to get across the street…”
And it TOTALLY did!
This breeze was just slowly puffing it steadily and slowly across the sidewalk until it gently blew out into the road…
But when a car sped by, the tailwind from it swirled and blew the bag backwards really quickly like it was trying to jump back on the curb (like squirrels do).
And then it would inflate slowly with the continuing breeze and try again to cross the road…
Well, I mean it wasn’t “trying to cross the road” but it looked like it was.
(This could have been one of those short Pixar cartoons!)
It got its nerve back up and tried again.
Whoosh!! Another car! And back it twirled to the safety of the sidewalk…
Then it slowly inflated with the almost imperceptible wind and gave it another tenitive try.
When our Quincy is going to try something new off the diving board, like a head-first dive or a flip, he says he has to pause and “get a bolt of courage”. So we, his cheering squad, stand up and yell together, “Get-a-bolt! Get-a-bolt!”
By now I was whispering udero my breath, “Get a bolt, little buddy!”
It bravely wafted into the street and “WHOOSH!” again! A truck this time…
One more try?
One…two…three…floating across and then…
SWOOSH!
This time a car behind him swirled him FORWARD into the street toward another car coming the other way…
and WHOOSH into the air and backwards a little…
And then with brave determination, he drifted steadily towards the other side…
but with a car bearing down, seemingly indifferent to his perilous journey through traffic to cross the road…
“C’mon, little guy! C’MON! YOU CAN MAKE IT!!” we screamed together!
And…he did!
I can’t believe I’m admitting this but I got a little choked up and misty about then.
I mean, it was just a plastic bag but it seemed like more…by then, it meant something more…to me.
Ever feel that way?
You’re being whisked about, blown and tossed, and all you’re trying to do is get where you feel like you need to be?
You’re trying to “get a bolt” but you wonder, “Does anybody know? Does anybody care?”
“I will instruct you and teach you in the way you should go; I will counsel you with my loving eye on you…” (Psalm 32.8)
There’s Someone watching you, cheering you, caring if you make it.
Because somehow, you mean something more…to Him.