Last week, the day after Thanksgiving we decided to forgo the black friday shopping for a day a Funworks. We played miniature golf, drove go-carts, and rode the bumper cars. We also got a handful of tokens for the arcade. The best part was I bought the pass months ago on Groupon, so it felt like it was free. We had a great time It wasn't crowded at all and we avoided the mayhem at the mall.
I always seem to get the car that won't go fast or doesn't steer well. It never fails. This time, I finally decided that if I couldn't go fast, I would swerve all over the road to at least entertain myself. It was ridiculous when Mikey nearly lapped me on the course. I pretty much stink at the driving games on video games too. The kids don't inform me that I've chosen the worst vehicle and driver/character until after I'm so frustrated that I quit. I personally think I drive fine in my real car. I don't get tickets or have accidents--well, not too many--knock on wood.
As we were reading the other night, a couple of verses reminded me of driving go-carts.
1Timothy 1:5-6With all the times I've read about the "strait and narrow" and God not walking in "crooked paths" or "turning from the right hand to the left," I don't ever remember reading about "swerving."
5 Now the end of the commandment is charity out of a pure heart, and of a good conscience, and of faith unfeigned:
That's what we mortals do sometimes. Swerve. We feel our lives aren't fast enough or exciting enough or that being charitable and pure in heart just isn't going anywhere, so we swerve--just like I did on the the go-cart course. There's a lot of worldly things jangling at us trying to get our attention. Especially at Christmas. I'm going to try to stay on track and keep Christ the center of my focus, so I don't have to recover from veering off the road.
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