“And a little child shall lead them…”
A simple phrase, but a beautiful one. Because in Heaven’s economy, innocence and simplicity are qualities of leadership.
Less is sometimes much, much more.
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The Musings of a Stubborn Believer
Category: life (page 7 of 7)
Pardon me if digress from my normative tenor momentarily…
There are plenty of blogs that serve as little more than a landing pad for 100 perfectly unrelated YouTube videos, and this is not one of them.
But the EMT in me wants to assert itself just this once to make one simple plea:
Please wear your seatbelt. I’m serious…
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Frightened? I would have been too.
Wouldn’t you have been, if you had been in the vehicle when the tires started whining on dry pavement like a bottle rocket? Imagine looking out the window when it launched off of the bank sideways. Split seconds must have seemed like minutes…and the cycle of light and dark must have well reflected the fight between hopes and fears as the vehicle silently rolled in midair.
Or maybe your eyes would have been closed…
And maybe his eyes were still closed when the tree trunk started them spinning (still in midair) on 2 axes, not one. Maybe when all was still again the blood and broken glass convinced him to keep them that way.
Yes, I think I would have been frightened. Especially if I hadn’t yet seen my sixth birthday.
It took me a few minutes to get to him, (being outnumbered by victims at a scene by a factor of 2 is not ideal) but by the time the rest of our colleagues got there with the ambulances, he had taught me something beautiful about service, and about life…
It was in his face. Wide eyes told me the story. He was terribly afraid. And even in the bystander’s car with the heat all the way up, he was shaking like a little leaf.
“Hi buddy, my name is Sean. I work on the ambulance. Can I help you?”
“Mhm…”
“What’s your name? Does this hurt? Ok, hold really still for me. Good boy… I’m just going to hold your head like this… Is this your brother?”
“Yeah… We were, we were just going to the lake…”
But he wouldn’t stop shaking. Even after 5 minutes.
Finally–
“Is my mommy still in that car?”
Oh, I get it…
“Yes. But she should be out soon. They’re working on it right now.”
“But is it going to explode?”
I wish you could have seen his little face. Scratched and swollen as it was, to me it was the ultimate theater of Grace for one beautiful moment. The moment when I said “Oh no, definitely not. They’re taking care of her.”
His neck relaxed.
“Ohhh… good.”
That’s when I decided few privileges compare to healing hurts, and calming fears…
Thanks, my little friend.
I’m so glad you all made it home…
I’m weary of hearing cheap scandals promise triumph when all they have to back them is moral insanity, and shameless fraud…
Here’s the alternative: The real ways to win…
“If young [people] make their model an exalted one, having pure morals and firm principles, and if blended with this are affability and true Christian courtesy, there is a refined perfection to the character which will win its way anywhere, and a powerful influence will be wielded in favor of virtue, temperance, and righteousness. Such characters will be of the highest value to society, more precious than gold. Their influence is for time and for eternity.”*
Win its way anywhere?? Even infidels call that “really winning.”
*My Life Today, April 27
I’m back… finally.
Here’s the thought for today:
“Life’s best things–simplicity, honesty, truthfulness, purity, integrity–cannot be bought or sold. They are as free to the ignorant as to the educated, to the humble laborer as to the honored statesman. For everyone God has provided pleasure that may be enjoyed by rich and poor alike–the pleasure found in cultivating pureness of thought and unselfishness of action, the pleasure that comes from speaking sympathizing words and doing kindly deeds. From those who perform such service the light of Christ shines to brighten lives darkened by many shadows…”*
Good thing, eh?
I’m smiling…
*{MH 198.2 – Emphasis added}
Home again for the moment, and happy to be back…
As always, time on the road has added texture and color to my perspective, and concrete conclusion to recently nebulous reasoning…
As always, time on the road has added texture and color to my perspective, and concrete conclusion to recently nebulous reasoning…
This world is a shaky place… And my heart cries for those who have nothing else to call their own.
Apart from God, existence may be ours for a time, but we do not possess life.
With Him, we cannot lose…
As sure as the sun will rise, tomorrow He will be waiting to offer me a new gift, and by His grace, I will be ready to receive it…
I know the hand that holds my future…
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