Everyone has moments in their lives that are crystalized. They are defining moments where you experience something or learn something about yourself that you will never forget. You will be able to tell someone 20 years later that you remember where you were when…
I had one of those moments yesterday. We have been moving this past week. Selling one house, moving into a rental and getting prepared to renovate another house. It has been very stressful (btw, I think as a condition of your license, Realtors should have to move every few years just to see how it is, we say we know, but you don’t know unless you do it). I was in the kitchen of the house we are about to renovate getting ready to move something. Jonas had taken my car and was about to head to Huntsville on a little adventure he got for his 17th birthday. About 10 minutes after he left, he called and was super panicked. “I need you to get here right now. I had a wreck and it is bad”. He tells me where and I drop everything and head out. Lici was about to get into another car and she followed me. I pulled up and there were all kinds of emergency vehicles. I saw him and saw no stretchers out and I breathed a huge sigh of relief. It looked bad but Thank God everyone was ok, just bruised and shaken up.
The phone call in the kitchen, the sight of all the emergency vehicles and then seeing him as I pulled up, I will never forget those three things. Then I saw my car. My beautiful car with only 17000 miles on it. I was worried I was going to be mad. But I wasn’t. My car had protected him. The other folks’ cars had protected them. They are just stuff. They can be fixed or replaced. Those precious people in all those cars cannot. Both of the other cars had kids in them. One had a baby that was probably 3 months old. The other one had a TON of kids in it. Everyone was ok.
I thank God for that moment. It proved to me that I place people above stuff. We want to believe that but until you are faced with it, you don’t know. It proved to me that our stuff serves a purpose. Our stuff serves us. How often do we serve our stuff. If you have a ton of debt on stuff, you serve it every day. Think about that. But God intended for us to serve him and our stuff to help with that. Not for us to serve our stuff and for him to support us in that endeavor. Never do you realize that more than in moments like yesterday.
Chew on that today. I love yall.
