What a day, what a day. To say that it has been interesting would be an accurate but incomplete summation. I don’t know about you but I can come up with some interesting conspiracy theories. But my tooth cracking and a piece coming off, surely that has nothing to do with the needed vacation I’m about to take, right?
Well, since I knew that I’d be driving to my destination, I took my car in to be serviced. No problems there. Good, that was a first. However, a week later, I hear a rattling sound and I’m wondering if the mechanic didn’t tell me about something important. Why would he not? After consulting with someone about what I was hearing, I knew that everything was alright.
Got home and finished a teaching sermon by Dharius Daniels from the Slow Jams series and realized that an old part -or version of me had to die in order for the new part – or new version of me could live. There’s the connection… the old me would have “took apart” the mechanic for not doing his job effectively, thereby causing me upset. Because now there was something else not right in my life that I would have had to deal with. But since I got help from a trusted source, there was none of that back-and-forth. No, the mechanic was not trying to sabotage my vacation.
As I was basking in the reality that I’m growing in how I handle opposition that comes in my life – while eating dark chocolate covered almonds (this time out of satisfaction of not being worried), I felt a sharp pain in my tooth. I knew I’d eaten a piece that was chocolate only so when I felt something grate across my tongue, I spit it out, and it was a part of my tooth that broke.
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