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From the President: “Bumps in the road”
I had a tree that died in my back pasture about three years ago. I pulled up the stump and filled in the hole, and I thought I was finished. The rain came and the hole settled down some more leaving a little bump when I would mow the pasture. It started off not too much of a jar when my mower hit the hole while mowing but soon the compaction was deeper. Each time I would hit that bump I would say, “I need to fix that hole”. Each time I got busy and did not think about that bump until I mowed again.
Then, one time that hole gave me a jolt I wasn’t expecting. I almost said a bad word, but this wasn’t really God’s fault, it was mine. Now, along with all my other projects to do, I needed to clean under the mower deck of my mower as the clumps of grass had collected around the blades. The next pass around the pasture, I noticed all the clumps of grass came loose from under the mower and fell in that hole which was needing more dirt. How convenient this was. That bump in the road fixed one of my other problems. Now the ground is smooth mowing.
While I would not pray for more bumps in the road, I realize sometimes those bumps in the road are situations in life we need to fix. Detours we must make from our original plans; poor habits that cause stress in our lives. Do you have bumps in the road? Those annoying things in life you tolerate and put off for a later time thinking they might go away.
I once read an interesting quote from a book which stated, “we forget 80% of the people we meet, 80% of the problems, 80% of the daily task, 80% of the meals we eat, and so forth. We remember 10% of the good people, things, events. And we remember 10% of the bad people, events, or times in our life.”
I doubt that the percentage is always correct, but it is something to realize that our minds can only hold so many memories and it takes something good or bad to trigger those memories. Think about this. They make good song writing experiences, those “bumps in the road”.
Keep Writing!
Rick Tate
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