Road Rage

I’ve found myself becoming a competitive driver lately. I don’t know if it’s the 20 miles of highway that lie between my home and my office but I find myself being rude to other drivers, This is mostly in terms of seeing someone put their blinkers on to get over in front of me. What do I do? I speed up to prevent them from getting over. It’s a race from Chelsea to Birmingham and back again every Monday through Friday.

So Tuesday morning of this week, I stopped at a traffic light. As I approached the light I got into the left lane because traffic had to start uphill from the light and there was a 18 wheeler in the right lane. Meanwhile, two other fine citizens pulled right up behind the truck rather than getting behind me. When the light turned green the first of those two squeezed over in front of the car that was in front of me. Good for him. The next car was determined to pull over in front of me. I was equally determined (short of getting in accident) that she wasn’t. She won because she was perfectly willing to sacrifice her car, my car and the back part of the 18 wheeler in order to get over. But, her determination infuriated me to a point that I’m sure I letter cussed her in my head (I should write a blog on letter cussing, later). And, then I pursued and kept pulling up beside her to get her to look over at me. But, of course she wouldn’t.

I remained quite upset until I got to the office. At which point, I had to pray for forgiveness and a changed heart, for being too rude to let her over in the first place and then for harboring resentment toward her because she cut me off. I think this is the first time I’ve ever been that angry for such a petty offense on her part. And all this after hearing from Colossians 3 this week... Verse 8 says: But now you must rid yourselves of all such things as these: anger, rage, malice, slander, and filthy language from your lips. Oh jolly!!! I think I pulled all of those into my Tuesday morning commute. Pray for me and hold me accountable. I know you will.

much love my friends, much love!