chain reaction...

my car broke down this week...how many times has that been in the last year and a half? too many to count...on the one hand...i'm thinking here we go again...but really...when i think about the fact that for the first 10 years that i had this car...i had absolutely no problems...so really...i've been pretty blessed...the good thing is:

- i was close to home

- i didn't get hurt

- no one else got hurt

i have no idea how i'm going to pay for this repair...but then again...i didn't know how i would pay for all the other repairs...but God provided...

this time...it was a hose...that was severed...smoke quickly filled the front of the car...and a nice pile of coolant was all over the cement...

when i got the car towed to the mechanic...of course we both saw the severed hose...but upon further inspection...what had happened was that a part underneath had come undone and was circling quickly around and around...and with that...it caught on another part...which came loose...and that part...while rapidly flailing around...severed the hose...

of course...the mechanic was naming these lovely car parts...but after the second one...all i was thinking...was that this is getting more and more expensive...with each new part added to the story...

as i was thinking about this later in the day...i realized that this is so much like life...when we do that one thing...that we don't put much thought into...and think it won't be that bad...or it is trivial...not realizing that every choice...every decision we make is like a chain reaction...just like with my car...

many times we have choices or decisions that we know are not the best way to go...but we don't think about the long-term affect it will have on us...and others...

i would have loved for the Lord to teach me this little life lesson in another way...meaning not through my car... =) i am glad and thankful for the reminder...and as i go through my day...i will think about each choice and decision i make...carefully...so as not to end up like the car's chain reaction...in a big mess...