Those who have been to Staglands Wildlife Reserve would know that the road I travel to get there isn’t necessarily the ideal road you’d take to work. It’s a windy road filled with a number of blind curves. It takes me 20-25 minutes to drive this road giving me loads of time to think about things, mainly to amuse myself and to distract me from the terrifying bends I have to drive in.
I sometimes sing, reflect, make my own jokes and laugh at them while driving there. And from here, the long drive chronicles was born. It is during my drive here that I get to take a closer look at my life and the circumstances surrounding me in an uninterrupted way. Will post a video of my way to work soon but for now, enjoy the read!
I usually go home at a certain time. There would be times when I’d come home late because I had a little chat with my boss but it’s not that often that this happens. In one of my usual travels home, I got off at an unusual time. I had no meeting or any sort of social engagement that day so I was driving at a relaxed pace.
Everything was as is until I came to a blind curve with a home right after it. I usually don’t encounter the residents there leaving the house and if they do, they leave with a car but at this specific time, a kid on a bike drove fast before me. I was in a safe speed so nothing untoward happened.
I, however, thought about what could have happened should I come home a bit earlier or later or should my driving speed have altered before that kid appeared on the road. That day, though, I was at that part of the road at that time, driving in that speed, saving me from a possible collision.
It reminded me of one of the prayers of a member in our prayer group where it says, “thank you, Lord, for saving us from things that we know and the things we are not aware of…”.
Sometimes, we wonder why we are stuck somewhere we feel we shouldn’t be. We are in relationships we feel we shouldn’t be in anymore, we are in jobs that are not rewarding and fulfilling anymore, we are awaiting for answers that wouldn’t come. We feel stuck and forgotten. No matter what we do, nothing moves.
We may or may not know it but there is Someone at work in our lives, protecting us from things we cannot bear. We are in circumstances we need to be in at the moment. We can take comfort in knowing that we are provided with what we need when we need it. It may be a difficulty we need to grow from, it may be a short supply of resources we need to get by. We have the right amount of good and bad we have to deal with on a daily basis. Nothing is given to us beyond our capacity.
My takeaway for this day, from the kid on the bike, is that I am where I should be now, nothing more, nothing less. I am not a day over or a day under the things I am supposed to go through. Everything is in place because Someone is in charge of me. I am thankful for the times I was saved from things that I am aware of, more so, from the things I am not.
P.S. On the flip side, parents of these kids should teach their kids basic road safety to ensure they are secure when they go out of the house. 🙂 🙂 🙂
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