Howdy,
I’m pretty sure that I crisscrossed the town of Turlock in the driver’s seat of my car yesterday more than any Uber driver in the city. (Are there Uber drivers in the “city” of Turlock?)
Maybe I should take it up, ‘cause I wasn’t getting paid.
Anyway, yesterday I wrote about my morning’s tracing of town. It was just as convoluted and “backtrackie” when I dared venture out again in the evening to get the older boys to AWANA’s and Riah “to Grandmother’s house we go …” but I’m not going to detail all that here.
Let’s just say that yesterday truly was day today day-to-day, or as Proverbs 27:1 says, “Do not boast about tomorrow, for you do not know what a day may bring.”
It’s like the day enjoyed proving just how true the idea could be, as yesterday was day today day-to-day, even more than I thought when I wrote it before early afternoon.
It’s a good lesson to learn, and something that can only be beat by being okay with it …
“Come now, you who say, ‘Today or tomorrow we will go into such and such a town and spend a year there and trade and make profit’ — yet you do not know what tomorrow will bring. What is your life? For you are a mist that appears for a little time and then vanishes. Instead you ought to say, ‘If the Lord wills, we will live and do this or that.’ As it is, you boast in your arrogance” (James 4:13-16a).
Maybe slap on that Uber or Lyft sticker (or both) and make the best of it. Your ride isn’t in your hands. Not even your drive is yours.
—Billy
Reading. Writing. Living.
P.S. I won’t say it. Won’t say it. Won’t. Say. It. Won’t. Jesus— Jesus, take— I said I wouldn’t … I’m so not good at this. Jesus, take the— I won’t. Phew. You get the drift. Circular, hands 10-and-2 (in the books), used for steering. Here take the keys, my computer keyboard, take it, take my keys—
Word Count: 107,101 / On Pace: 105,600 / Year’s Goal: 200,000
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