Finding a Way
I was in the Wal-Mart parking lot earlier today after picking up a couple of things, and as I was sitting in my car checking my blackberry, a lady in a pickup truck with her son in the front seat with her pulled into the space in front of me. I looked up and watched with curiosity. The parking lot was full of shopping carts, and it seemed like there were 2, 3, or 4 carts in each of the open spaces and in front of cars already parked. As the lady pulled in, she pulled right up to 3 of those carts, inching her way forward till just about touching. When she got as close as she could without touching, she realized she was crooked and immediately backed out and pulled back in again. This time she was straight, but she couldn’t get far enough in without pushing the carts with her truck, so she pulled back out just a bit and got her son to get out of the truck and move the carts forward just a little bit so she could pull far enough in to be out of the lane. As her son moved the cart I finally looked at the front of her truck and the front bumper was completely crumpled from a previous wreck. I smiled watching her work so hard to avoid that cart when the bumper was already completely smashed right where she would have touched the cart.
I smiled for quite awhile as I thought about how careful she was even with something of hers that had already been crushed. Aren’t we really all that way though? Regardless of the state of our affairs, we still tend to be so incredibly careful as we inch our way forward in life and push so close to obstacles that may be in our way. We often times back up a few times too, trying to optimize our position or trying to get that perfect angle of attack on any such barrier. In the end, we’ll find a way to remove that barrier by either pushing it or using someone else to help us open the path. One way or another, we will find a way!