They's Us!

Blessed are the people who know the joyful sound!
They walk, O LORD, in the light of Your countenance.
  -- Psalm 89:15

You and I may have wondered about those people stuck out in that last blizzard on the highway. Why, we thought, what need drove them to attempt such a foolish thing? Well I met one of them this week, and the statement was, "We thought we could make it." Of course they did, so did everyone else stuck with them. One of those no-one-said-ever things goes something like, "We knew we would get stuck out there in the howling wilderness between Sturm and Drang, but we went anyway." If you or I have never been stuck in a blizzard it is because we have the grace of God to thank for it. Because each time we each thought we could make it was one of those times when just another inch of snow, a swirl of vision-robbing snowflakes, or a slip of a tire was the tiny difference between making it and being one of those poor fools stuck on the highway during a blizzard. Being stuck in a society of go, go, go, is a worrisome thing for us. And, all those people stuck somewhere? Why they's us on a day we thought we could make it. 

Walk in the light of the Lord's countenance! One day it could be you or me stuck out there just trying to get where we were going. 

Bucky