"If
you have a penny and I have a penny and we exchange pennies,
you
still have one cent and I still have one cent.
But
if you have an idea and I have an idea and we exchange ideas,
you
now have two ideas and I now have two ideas."
- Unknown
- Unknown
It is wonderful, isn’t it, how you can give a blessing
and then you have more than you previously had. I was pondering this idea while
I was bike riding here in South Florida. The ride truly presented some
interesting ideas, so I will share some of them with you.
We saw a tiny carcass on the side of the road. I took a
photo of it, unsure what it was. A Google search for baby mouse images brought
up one that looked just like this one we found, so I know that it was a mouse.
A grave marker beside the road caught our eye. It marks the spot where a young
woman died when her car plummeted into the canal. Her family is raising money (and
awareness), working to get a guard rail installed. There have been five crashes
at that exact location in just seven years, two of them resulting in fatalities
due to drowning.
As we were looking at a map, and the end of the bike
lane, pondering whether to go on or turn around, a motorcyclist pulled over to
the curb, hopped off his bike saying something about being stung on his leg. He
unzipped his boot and a wasp flew out! It was mad as a hornet, and so was he!
His comment was, “Too bad I did not get the satisfaction of killing the SOB!”
That got me thinking… so here is my “top five” list of
things it is a miracle any of us survive:
1.
Sneezing. We know your heart stops.
2.
Anesthesia. We know your heart can stop
during that, too.
3.
Airplanes. It can’t be natural for something
as big as a house to fly.
4.
Slides. Why do they let a toddler climb to
the top of an eight foot ladder?
5.
Birth. How does a 7-10 pound baby get out
of there alive?
Regardless, of why else, we survive because the highway
of life is Miracle Parkway. Give thanks today… and every day!
