Recently, I saw a car parked over the line.
Yep. One of those.  Luxury car. One and a half spaces for one car.

​Before I got my present car, every time I saw situations like that, I would slide my smaller cars right into the space they were half-way overtaking. I made sure to leave enough room for the doors on both cars to open without touching the other car (which was their goal).  I also made sure to be the one who had to do the most squeezing to exit the car.  My goal was to let them see that someone was going to park in the space anyway, no matter how hard they tried to take more than one space. If they don't want their car dinged, then park at the end of the lot, so far away that no one will want to park beside them!

Note: Yes, I had a goal just like they had a goal.  I don't want to hear it about it from you! (Take that in a nice way, but for real!)

When I returned to my car, I approached the lane from behind. The luxury car was still there and I saw that the back of the car was very damaged.  Old damage. Rust on the spots where the paint was knocked off. The trunk was so bashed that surely it wasn't able to open.

I stood there wondering how the driver had the nerve to give that 'look' when we were getting out our cars, as if their car was more precious and better than others, yet it had all that damage on the back that had not been fixed.   
Protecting the smooth side, while ignoring the damaged back end.


Maybe this is a stretch but it's what came to my mind:  
Revelations 3:2 Be watchful, and strengthen the things which remain, that are ready to die: for I have not found thy works perfect before God.
Revelations 3:17 Because thou sayest, I am rich, and increased with goods, and have need of nothing; and knowest not that thou are wretched, ad miserable, and poor, and blind, and naked:

Humans that make comparisons, can look down on others as if they own thing/life is better than someone else's, yet also knowing they have huge issues on the backside of their life. 
Luxury car. Beautiful finish on the driver's side. Back end smashed in. I wouldn't have seen the smashed backside if I hadn't walked past the row I parked on and approached the cars from behind.

Let's not be smug about anything in our life. It's right to try to keep what is good, good. It's also important to try to fix/heal the damage that isn't easily visible.  




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The link is DEEP!!! 

We know we are responsible for our actions, reactions, and pro-actions (the work it takes to not let someone else's mess towards us make us become a monster). Yet, we fail and become monsters sometimes. 

You don't?!? Well, what about that time so-and-so posted something you didn't like, so you got at them the next time you were in their presence? It wasn't even about you.  It was not even your business. A monster...even if only for a moment.


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