Perspective

 

I left for church Sunday afternoon last Sunday at 5:20 pm.  I got onto the interstate and was just past Costco when the traffic stopped … it didn’t slow down; it stopped.  Unfortunately, I was past the exit ramp, so I just waited.  Since I was stopped, I pulled up Google maps on my phone and found an accident under the East Ridge bridge, so I could get off at the East Ridge exit just before the accident.  That is, if I could get to the East Ridge exit.  Traffic would pull up a car length and then stop.  Drivers began to get edgy, moving from lane to lane to find the fastest lane.  But there wasn’t any.  Then one, two, then three cars flew by on the shoulder.  The car behind me moved over to block the shoulder.  No one was getting ahead of him!  But I knew that there was a big, portable TDOT trailer/sign on the shoulder ahead near the exit blocking the shoulder.  In a few minutes, the cars on the shoulder were begging to get back into the line.  But as I was frustrated and feeling sorry for me missing church, there were three cars and a semi-truck that were IN the accident.  Some of them would be very late and three people would never reach their destination.  Hey, in life, there are misfortunes and then there are REALLY misfortunes.  Take the time to look at the big picture. See things, as best you can, from the vantage point of the other person.  Philippians 2:4, “Look not every man on his own things, but every man also on the things of others.”