PuttingTruthFirst

I have been quite fascinated by watching a program entitled "Highway Thru Hell".  It is on the weather channel and is about a group of men who are tow truck drivers on a treacherous road in Canada.  The things they face are really nail-biters.  They keep you on the edge of your seat.  These men day in and day out move wrecks off of this very dangerous highway.  I am interested in the way they think through their approach to removing wrecks that could be quite confusing.  As I have watched this show, I have grown to appreciate what I would call "the little people". These are the people who day in and day out keep our lives running smoothly.  They are almost invisible to the public and their circumstances are not really understood.  In America the big dream is to become someone of importance:  a doctor, a lawyer or perhaps God forbid a politician.  We look to those people with a sense of admiration.  However there are dozens eve...

Humans are strange creatures.  We are probably the only ones except the lowly ants that worry about tomorrow.  I have met so many people that live in the tomorrow which will never come for if it did it would actually be today.  We live in the now.  Just as Christ said "today is the day of salvation".  I can't put it off for tomorrow for in a real sense tomorrow never comes.  We must live in and for the now.  It is in the now that I can help someone, it is in the now that I can make a good choice, and it is in the now that I will have to experience the consequences of those choices. It is wise to plan for tomorrow in all that we do.  We have to save now for tomorrow for if we do not we will have nothing for today.  We store up all of our good works in the now and we must make decisions based on the now for we will be forced to live though those choices when tomorrow becomes today.  This focus on tomorrow has it limits.  When we pr...

These past few days have created a brokenness in my heart that I have not had for a very long time.  I am amazed at how I feel.  I have always been able to keep my feelings in check maintaining a calm and quiet demeanor.  I feel emotions but it is rare that they can become so overwhelming that I find myself responding to them in such a real way.  I know the source of this sadness for it is multilayered.    One of my nieces, whom I dearly love, was arrested last year and charged with vehicular manslaughter due to her driving under the influence.  I know that this happened but somehow I find it hard to get my mind around this reality.  In this accident she killed a patrol officer in the police department.  She was completely unaware of what transpired and how this happened.  She nearly lost her own life in the physical sense because of injuries she sustained in the accident.  Needless to say the entire family has been turned upside d...