Does Phoenix have an influx of visitors this month - especially this past week? Geez! Every single morning traffic has beenn terrible - what is normally a 35 to 40 minute drive to work has evolved into 50 - 70 minutes! And I'm still leaving at 6AM!! What's up with that? Who WANTS to be up and on the road at 6AM? Normally Friday is a much lighter traffic day - but not today - it took me 50 minutes to get here. I just sit back and take my time and don't stress over it. That's why I leave at 6AM and I don't have to be at work until 8AM. Yeah - I allow myself plenty of time. I have reports to get out first thing - but they get out when I get here. It's no biggie if I'm not even here at 8AM - my boss knows I'll be here when I can be. I like having that flexibility. But - back to traffic - I find it is much easier on my stress level to allow myself plenty of time and to just take the flow as it comes. It traffic gets beyond 25 miles an hour - yay! If not - it's ok. I like getting to work when I'm not running to get here but walking in casually.
But where have all these people come from and why are they up and about at 6AM? That's the big question. Could it be people from the eastern part of the United States decided they couldn't take the cold any more (understandably) and have come to Phoenix for a reprieve? I don't know.
But I do know that I like my regular paced driving versus people being idiots and cutting in front of people. With my relaxed attitude, I just let them move in - but I have seen many people have a bit of 'road rage' when someone cuts in front of them. I hate changing lanes and will only "squeeze" in between people if there is just no other way and my exit is coming up. I try to allow myself plenty of time.
As I write that last sentence the thought occurs to me that 'allow myself plenty of time' is what people think about their life span. They think they have plenty of time to turn their life around. To be the mom or dad they wish they had been. That they have plenty of time to spend with the children and help them grow mentally and emotionally in this life. Plenty of time to make a difference in their lives. Plenty of time to take that vacation. Plenty of time to be family. Plenty of time.......
Yet, we all know, that in a twinkling of an eye, Jesus will come, and those dead in Him will rise first, and the rest of us will be rise with them to be with Christ. I probably said that all wrong, but if you know your Bible, you know what I'm saying.
Reminds me of a book I have, that I have read a couple times and have been thinking lately of reading it again. The Bema. I don't remember who the author is, but it is a book about a man who wanted to be successful. And driving home one day from work the 'twinkling of an eye' happened and cars all around him were left driverless, or passengerless - and he is looking around trying to figure out what just happened. It's a story of a moment in time that he saw his life as it was. Real thought provoking. Yeah, I need to rethink my life.
And I've done that some, lately. I have a yearning in me to get off by myself for a couple days - just be alone. It won't happen, but I have that yearning. Maybe if I can I will go over to Canaan in the Desert this weekend for a little while. Maybe. We have things going on this weekend and have cancelled one thing already. With my luck, with all the extra cars I'm seeing, wherever I go, they will follow!
What about you? If that 'twinkling of an eye' should come and Christ should return today - would you be ready? If your life should end today, would you go with regrets? Something to think about this weekend.
Blessings!
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