That day would be today.  Yes… my first car, that beautiful specimen of 1984 (and a half) Chevy S-10 will likely be headed to the junk yard soon.  It’s kind of sad to see it go.  We still use it a LOT to haul and it has moved our friends and family more time than we can count!  (sniff sniff).  The worst part though is it was TROY’S main source of transportation!  I am a little bit panicking about the fact that we are a FIRM one car family now!  I guess the good news though is that he can drive the van and if I ever need to go anywhere during the day I can just take mom’s cross country but still…. that truck has been through a lot with us and it feels a bit symbolic of the END of an era.  We know that a “new life” has begun for our family and now we are moving forward but some days its hard not to look back.  Dad reminded me this morning that its ALWAYS something… if it’s not one thing, it’s THREE more!  How true.

One thing that I had to stop and think about as I was watching the tow truck pull away was how life seems to come in waves.  Some are waves that you can ride into the surf, others are tsunamis that catch you by surprise and even once you REALIZE they have hit they keep coming and coming.  And how I am INCREDIBLY grateful that the truck made it THROUGH the move as it was our primary source of moving our entire family’s stuff!!!!  It must have made 50 trips to and from houses and I do THANK it very much for its service, all these years, to our family!  You will be missed my friend!!!

These waves come crashing in and you might even see them coming and yet you are still powerless to stop them.  You can put your hand out in front of you or run for cover but it will do you no good.  The wave will still come.  What choice do you have?  So you wait and you ready yourself and it hits and it is as bad as you anticipated.  You watch the water recede and take with it many remains of things from the past.  It washes those things back out to sea and you will never see them again.  They might become drift wood or a coral house but the point is that even if you DO see these “things” again you may never even recognize them.  Then, you turn around, and there is the destruction.

Maybe it was because I didn’t have TIME to be upset by this today or maybe it was because I really am beginning to grow into a more patient person, but at any rate… I thought to myself … “There must be something better on the horizon”.  As I sat down to write this post I was reassured by one of my favorite songs… “Even when the rain falls, Even when the flood starts rising.  I am WASHED by the water………… Even when the earth crumbles under my feet.  Even when the ones I love, turn around and crucify me…. I won’t fall as long as You’re around me!”.  How true, how true.

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