First Love
My first car was an orange VW —
no Cadillac —
with a broken gas gauge,
seats repaired with baling wire,
and an imaginary heater.
It taught me about cracked blocks,
clogged carburetors, bad bearings,
and love that has no obvious correlation to virtue or logic.
I cried when I sold it for 100 dollars after it left me stranded
on a winter highway.
Never gave away my heart again quite so freely.
By Pat Hale
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The first letters of my cars number plate is BJ
Would it be bad if I called my car David Blowie??
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After almost ten years of having my learner’s permit and getting my license in October, I finally got a car yesterday (a little blue Kia Rio!) Today I was able to drive to the post office and also take my boyfriend to the train station. I still don’t feel comfortable and I’m working on highway driving with an instructor still, but I thought I would never be able to drive without having a panic attack and now I can. That’s something hopeful.
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New again
I remember my first car.
To anyone else, it wasn’t much. A lumbering landbarge. With too many miles. And not much else. Old enough to drive itself.
But it was new to me. And I was grateful to have it.
Looking back at the cars I’ve had since then, all of them were better than my first one. A lot better.
The funny thing is, I wasn’t nearly as appreciative of those cars. Even though they were so much better.
The “new” of having a car had worn off. I had gotten used to having one. And wasn’t really thinking about it.
Cars that were objectively better in every way? For me, they were – car, type “meh.”
This is the danger of familiarity. It’s a risk for all of us. And not just with cars.
Whenever we’re around something a lot. Or someone. Whenever we get comfortable.
There’s danger that we will start seeing them as part of the furniture. Part of the background. Not as what they really are.
We are capable of doing this to anyone. No matter how close they are to us. Even to God.
When we do it to a car, sure we lose out on the joy of driving it. But when we do it to another person? We don’t just lose out on the joy of our relationship with that person. If we keep at it, eventually we’ll lose that relationship.
But know this – nothing is made for the background. There is nothing in life that has to be part of the furniture. You and I get to choose. You and I can choose to make it new again.
Today, look at the relationships in your life.
Be honest. Have some of them slipped into the background?
Are there ones that used to be a priority? But now they’re more like “meh?”
It’s sad. Especially when you think how it used to be.
The thing is, it doesn’t have to be that way. You get to choose.
Today, it’s time to pull them out of the background. Time to reconnect. Time to make it new again.
Starting with the relationship that matters most. The one that supports everything else. The one that supports you.
Your relationship with God.
Today’s Readings
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YALL I GOT MY FURST CAR TODAY!!!!
IT NEEDS A FEW PARTS BUT WAS CHEAP AS SHIT!!!!!!!!!
MY PORTABLE GOBLIN CAVE IS ON THE WAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Finally a place to keep my trinkets >:D
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