Blow Out!

Driving on a Blow out!

Yesterday, my son in law was driving to church in my Tahoe, when kerwhang thump,thump thump. Sure enough, a blown tire, on the freeway, next to a cement wall with no shoulder! He didn’t plan it, he wasn’t dressed for it, but it happened anyway. He limped along for a ½ mile until there was a place to pull out of traffic. Today we are tire shopping.

As I waited for the service provider (my jack was too short and my lug wrench didn’t fit—duh!) I thought about our lives. Almost everyone has had a blowout, both on the road and in life. We never plan for it, we hope it doesn’t happen, and most of the time in life our lug wrench doesn’t fit! So, what do we do.

So, here’s a couple of thoughts for when you have a blow out.

· Have a good tow service! In life that means first of all, having your relationship with God in order. I think we all experience temporary atheism at times when we worry that somehow God will not show up in our crisis—but He always does.

· Have someone you can call. The time to tend to our relationships of friendship and mentorship and counsel, we will be frantically searching for someone to fill that void when we are least prepared to do it.

· Don’t keep driving on the blowout. It’s dangerous and it will only cause more damage. We don’t know if the tire could have been saved before driving a ½ mile on the blow out, but if we had gone much farther we would have ruined the rim, the brakes, an axle and ???. I’m always amazed at how people try to brush their “life blowouts” under the rug and act as if nothing has happened.

Tomorrow I’ll talk a little more about this in my blog, Ow, Ow, Ow, Ow—Stayin’ alive, stayin’ alive!