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G-Pop was pretty sure what he wanted to share with his children this morning. As he climbed in his van to begin a ten-day tour to Tampa, which would include five presentations, G-Pop had pretty well sketched out what he saw as an aching need in our present human interactions: a return to concern. He was pretty pleased with what he was going to pen.
But he got about twelve miles down the road and his front passenger tire blew out. There was no personal injury or damage to the van other than one exploded tire.
Now, G-Pop and his traveling companion don’t carry a jack or spare with them, simply because neither one of them is capable of taking care of such a feat. So it was a hot, Southern-Florida morning, and he was stuck by the side of the road, waiting for a tow-truck and a willing technician to help out.
Things never work that way. Once your plans are edited by Mother Nature’s intervention, things never get easier–they just get different.
The blow-out happened at 9:00 A.M. and G-Pop was not on his way again until 1:10 P.M.
A lot of waiting.
A lot of heat.
A lot of chances to be discouraged, frustrated or to do that dastardly human thing of trying to find someone to blame.
Then it struck G-Pop. The article he had planned to write, though well-intentioned, was a discussion of human generosity in the abstract. In other words, “we could” or “we should.”
But it is one of those subjects that is easy to “Amen” but not so easy to amend. So instead, G-Pop is going to talk about concern, compassion and tenderness in the practical rather than the abstract.
Would you believe that four people stopped to see if they could help?
Would you believe a young man who has his own towing company had his car overheat on the way, but still made it there to change the tire?
Would you believe that G-Pop’s daughter-in-law brought out some drinks and a sandwich, asking if there was any other way she could help?
Would youi believe that G-Pop’s wife scurried around town, suddenly becoming a tire purchaser, for the good of the cause?
When it was all over, G-Pop realized there were so many people he got to meet that he never would have met had he not been stalled.
Maybe the whole problem in life is that we think we’re going to teach each other to be better humans. Actually, life just comes along and messes with us, giving us the chance to practice making gentler decisions from a position of deeper concern.
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