A little over a week ago I had a flat tire on the way to get my mom to bring her to church Sunday morning. So there I was on the shoulder of 522 changing the tire, good thing that I was headed towards Kenmore at the time and not heading back to Monroe, at least the shoulder is wide enough especially since it was the driver side tire that was flat. Apparently I had hit something in the road that cut the tread of the tire.
Now when we bought the van all four tires would need to be replaced before winter. I had one of the back tires go bad about six weeks ago so I replaced those two then. At least it was one of the front tires this time. New tires all around before winter was the goal and I guess that even though we didn’t budget for it yet, we met our goal about three months early. Another real important part of having new tires is that remember my adventure on Friday? There is no way on that wet road would my van been able to climb the steep streets of Seattle without a whole lot of slipping and maybe not at all.
Some times we have “flat tires” in our lives also, we are busy cruising down a road and all of a sudden we are forced to pull over and fix something. In every case in my life when I have had a ‘flat’ it has always worked out for the best. I was reminded again this weekend that when I was dating Kyle before we married I had “kicked him to the curb” twice. Now that is a real flat tire. In both instances we were headed on down the road to marriage and something just came up and stopped our little journey causing one or both of us “fix” the flat tire in our lives. Today we have successfully completed the first couple of legs of our journey and have now joined up and are traveling in the car pool lane of life making better time and not getting stuck in traffic as often.
Yes flat tires slow us down and may even cause us to change our plans, but they also help us to fix areas that are weak and worn in our lives. Thank God for flat tires.
Now when we bought the van all four tires would need to be replaced before winter. I had one of the back tires go bad about six weeks ago so I replaced those two then. At least it was one of the front tires this time. New tires all around before winter was the goal and I guess that even though we didn’t budget for it yet, we met our goal about three months early. Another real important part of having new tires is that remember my adventure on Friday? There is no way on that wet road would my van been able to climb the steep streets of Seattle without a whole lot of slipping and maybe not at all.
Some times we have “flat tires” in our lives also, we are busy cruising down a road and all of a sudden we are forced to pull over and fix something. In every case in my life when I have had a ‘flat’ it has always worked out for the best. I was reminded again this weekend that when I was dating Kyle before we married I had “kicked him to the curb” twice. Now that is a real flat tire. In both instances we were headed on down the road to marriage and something just came up and stopped our little journey causing one or both of us “fix” the flat tire in our lives. Today we have successfully completed the first couple of legs of our journey and have now joined up and are traveling in the car pool lane of life making better time and not getting stuck in traffic as often.
Yes flat tires slow us down and may even cause us to change our plans, but they also help us to fix areas that are weak and worn in our lives. Thank God for flat tires.
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