What happened??
Posted by Marc Slade on Friday, March 12, 2010 Under: Personal
So I was asking a bible friend of mine for a scripture & after he starts to give it to me he proceeds to tell me not to say the words "me" , "my" or "I" to him or else he will leave - lets talk about Jesus... OK that's all well & good, but I started to get irritated because, now I can't tell him what God told me because the word "me" is in the sentence. He told me that I gotta destroy my pride. That's all well & good, because I do; so he proceeds to talk for about 2 minutes without giving me the scripture I asked for & I raise my hand because I want to say something & he ignores it or refuses to take a breath long enough for me to respond (because I didn't jot down a note I forgot what I wanted to say anyway because the topic kept changing) untill finally he said how he "hates the enemies" & then I couldn't help myself so I interrupted him with "Jesus said love your enemies" - in any case I just find it odd that someone who is pointing fingers at me calling me prideful sure looked mighty prideful to me with his ramroding the conversation tactics. I guess what my wife says is true: "What people accuse you of is how they feel about themselves" & I know it to be true in my life because the most confrontational situations I find myself in are with people who are just like me.
So in any case I was driving down the road in the left of a 2 lane road comming up to an intersection. The 2 cars in front of me want to turn left. I want to go straight. I decided to wait paitently behind them untill they made their turns. It took a while becase there was pedestrian traffic. So right when the 2 cars in front make their turns & I am stepping on the gas to go straight my co-pilot says "Woah! Woah! Woah!" so I hit the brakes & notice another bible friend of mine riding past me on a bicycle basically cutting my line from behind me in the middle of the 2 lanes & then turning left in front of me. I was scared witless because if it weren't for my co-pilots' warning I would have hit my friend because I have a tendancy of after waiting a long time to go & then getting my turn I like to accelerate as fast as possible untill I reach the speed limit. So I screamed "Jesus! (My friend's name) , try not to die!" & of all things he responds my giving me the finger! I was deeply hurt - I felt like "This is my thanks for not killing him?". And then I wondered "is this how someone calling themselves a child of God acts? Cut someone's line risking their life in the process & then give the finger when the person who almost killed them only wishes them well?".
So in any case I was driving down the road in the left of a 2 lane road comming up to an intersection. The 2 cars in front of me want to turn left. I want to go straight. I decided to wait paitently behind them untill they made their turns. It took a while becase there was pedestrian traffic. So right when the 2 cars in front make their turns & I am stepping on the gas to go straight my co-pilot says "Woah! Woah! Woah!" so I hit the brakes & notice another bible friend of mine riding past me on a bicycle basically cutting my line from behind me in the middle of the 2 lanes & then turning left in front of me. I was scared witless because if it weren't for my co-pilots' warning I would have hit my friend because I have a tendancy of after waiting a long time to go & then getting my turn I like to accelerate as fast as possible untill I reach the speed limit. So I screamed "Jesus! (My friend's name) , try not to die!" & of all things he responds my giving me the finger! I was deeply hurt - I felt like "This is my thanks for not killing him?". And then I wondered "is this how someone calling themselves a child of God acts? Cut someone's line risking their life in the process & then give the finger when the person who almost killed them only wishes them well?".
In : Personal
Tags: close call near miss
I preach the bible & used to run my own messenger service until covid killed it. When I get a chance I play Runescape as "Slade"