Red Light, Green Light

A funny thing happened on the way back from Lacie's...

Like most of us, I have a car and I drive it around. It's a pretty cool thing we grown-ups do, don't you think? And like you, fellow adult, I am constantly getting my driving buzz stepped on by traffic lights. Who enjoys having to stop at a red light? I mean really? But tonight a new thought came to my mind.

Red lights always turn green eventually.

When we're driving through life, God occasionally makes us come to a halt at one of His red lights. You're driving along, think you're doing great, minding the signs and the speed limits for the most part. You know, all the good driver stuff. Then boom, Christian driver buzz bombed. Red light. Stop. Wait. Grr.

Some lights are the automatic ones. You pull up to them, the light senses that you're there and it'll therefore change faster to comply to your needs of moving forward. Sometimes life is like that. God will set it up so that when you get to a certain point, you may have to stop and take a look around but He doesn't keep you waiting for long. These are the moments where life has actually been waiting for you, believe it or not. That does happen every now and then.

Some lights are timed. You must sit. And wait. And wait. And wait for the light to change. Sometimes you might be in a huge hurry. Sometimes you might have a certain destination in mind that you are absolutely dying to get to a.s.a.p. But nooo. You have to just sit there like a goob and wait for the light to change. In your mind, that light is out to get you. It hates you. It wants you to be unhappy. In reality, it's just you waiting on life to happen. And it's good to wait every so often. It's good. It may suck really badly but it's good.

Don't even think about running these red lights, automated or timed. Because as soon as you take things into your own hands, there'll be a freakin' big semi-truck that plows into you and you think "Why, oh why, did I ever think that would be a good idea?!"

Just wait for the light to change.
Because it always will.
You may have to wait a while.
Either for life to catch up with you.
Or the other way around.
But either way, it'll change.

What will surprise you is that once it changes, you may find yourself on a completely new or different road. But that's just the magic of God. He likes to do that sometimes. Personally, it freaks me out when He does stuff like that, but it's okay. Keep freaking me out, God. It's cool.

Just because you are stopped at a red light doesn't mean the journey is over.
It'll turn green eventually.
Patience.