The Revitalization of my Life-Day 12

Well, once again I didn't workout but believe me, I am going to start back. On yesterday I had an epiphany about the simple things in life that we hardly pay attention to during rough times in our lives. I was driving down the road headed to pick up a payment from a personalized poem I did for a client. While driving, I came up a train on the tracks. I starting thinking to myself, "man, this had to stop when I really need to get somewhere." Well, the train soon passed by and I was on my way. All of a sudden, a dog runs out into the street. I had no time to swerve, so I hit him. I felt really bad because I didn't know if it was someones dog. I stop my car and got out and looked at me car, it was damaged. The front bumper cracked and the signal light gone. Now to get you to understand why this really bothered me i have to tell you another story. Just a few weeks ago, my tire blew out and damaged...yep you guessed it, my front bumper and the signal light. you see, I had just had this bumper replaced and i was just devastated. But here is where my epiphany began.

I didn't make my appointment with my client and as I was headed back home right pass the sight where I hit the dog and i thought to myself, "I'm glad that it wasn't worse than it was." I could have swerved and hit a car head on. This could have caused for me to total my car and even get injured. Yea, I had just had my bumper replaced, but what's a bumper when you have a whole car and your life.

In trying situations we tend forget about what we have and focus on what we loss. I believe that when things happen like this, it's God way of putting our faith to the test. Seeing if we have being studying his word, not knowing when he might give us a pop quiz. When adversities come our way, we have to pay attention to what is right in front of us and not something that is not. I was hurt when the accident first happened, but after a about an hour or so, I came to the realization that it could have been worse. I just hope that I passed my pop quiz! (I did pray for forgiveness when I started thinking about my car and not the dog)

"Life is life and you can't change the word, but you can change what it means to you"-K.J Swint