“Crash Course” Blog #120
What kind of a map do I follow in my mind today?
Hundreds of thoughts come to me ~ do any guide me?
Where is the right mental road map to give me direction daily?
The other day I was watching a dog run down the street. He was running as fast as he
could and then his owner caught his attention and he ran the other way. Did he have a
destination in mind? Every single day we wake up, some of us, with very good intentions.
Others of us are caught up in our fears, frustrations and daily drama. I for one, realize life
has more twists and turns then I ever could have prepared for.
Here is a different take on a little anecdote I may have shared with you in an earlier blog. I
remember looking back in my life to a powerful lesson I was given in going the wrong way.
I was out of college and I had gone to a party with my friend. On this particular night I was
introduced to vodka gimlets. For whatever reason, I the drinks went down quickly and the
glow I began to feel was warm and inviting. Did I have one to many? I was beginning to
feel like nothing could bother me, no matter what. This feeling that took over me, took me
away from any and all anxiety I may have been dealing with. I remember getting a phone
call and deciding to leave the party at once. It was snowy and cold. Yet I felt warm,
invigorated and able to take on almost anything. I started driving faster. It was late at
night. The snow was coming down thick as thieves. As I sped up and took a turn around
the bend, the bright lights of a car blinding me, coming right at me caused me to turn
sharply. I swerved and hit two trees head-on.
It’s really bizarre how after all these years, I still remember everything in slow motion about
the accident as though it happened yesterday. I was driving my favorite car. A dark
green, Ford Galaxie convertible. I loved that car. Yet, I remember flying through the air
and in slow motion suddenly aware I had crashed and had no control over my car
anymore.
Then, there I was, lying on the cold, black, snowy cement hearing the ambulance and
listening to a paramedic speak hurriedly to me. “You should be dead right now, young
lady, just lie still, we’ll take it from here. That car of yours is an accordion. How you got out
of that car and landed here, God only knows”. I remember I tried, but couldn’t talk
because I had punctured my lung and that was the least of it. However, as I slowly turned
my head, while laying on that cold ground, I saw my car smashed up against the trees
with only the front and back bumpers showing. I wondered where in the world was the
middle of the car? How did I ever get way over here on the opposite side of the road? It
was nothing short of a miracle.
At the hospital, in the operating room, I remember I could hear everything they were
saying. The doctors were carrying on with each other as though it was just a normal part
of their day. I felt nothing, and now I listened to everything they said. “She really did a
number on herself”, the one doctor was saying. “I give her a fifty, fifty chance she makes it”.
I tried to focus my thoughts on what he had just said. “What did he just say?! I might not
make it? Wait…. I wasn’t even twenty-two yet!” It was then I remember the strangest
emotion coming over me. Determined healthy anger. I was angry the doctor had made
that comment.
I was determined to prove him wrong! There was no way I would die. I was getting out of
there because I had a life to live. No matter what he said, I was going to show all of them.
My determined, healthy anger quickly gave me a crash course in how to mentally survive
when ones’ own life doesn’t look so good. This is where my healthy anger can be directed
at higher self healing. Now amazing miracles can take place. In a breath I am able to
change. In a breath I am able to find my better, higher, stronger self. This is where the
true light of Jesus Christ turns on and lights my way. Every day I am alive now though,
the choices don’t stop. Each and every day I am given this person to listen to or that story
to believe. I am given a chance to see with my own “change of heart” all the good I can
pick from IF I only tap into the Holy Spirit that is alive and well inside of me. Now I do not
speed down the highway of life and crash and burn. I treasure the lessons I have been
given to learn from now. I look at each and every experience I have been given from a
higher self perspective. I know it is not easy, life is hard.
I realize that every part of my waking day can throw me a “curve ball”. There will always
be something, or someone or some situation that I may not be ready for. However, I can
be prepared for the unexpected this way: I start my day like this:
I wake up, I pray saying, “Thank you Jesus for encircling me, head to toe, in the armor of
spiritual, steel protection. Nothing can harm me, If I don’t allow it”.
Every moment of my day gives me more opportunity to choose a course of “higher self
learning”. This keeps me from crashing into walls trying to use my own empty “lower self”
courses. What do I mean by that? Let’s just think school. School of hard knocks. The
school of life and learning. My school must have purpose, perseverance, and
permanence. Three important courses to keep me focused on a crash-proof life. My
purpose is to learn all my lessons each day with Jesus Christ as my teacher. I
persevere each day despite the dark, depressed feelings of difficulty. Permanence? I
am permanently defined and convinced of unchanging as long as I follow my recipe.
And so it is. The simplified, easy to learn, crash course of life. Jesus never said life is easy.
Yet as hard as it can be at times, as sad as I can be, and as much rain that pours down on
me, there is always Jesus and a beautiful rainbow ahead.
Can I take a crash course in learning and do it Jesus way?
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