New Beginnings....

This week has been another week for the books peeps.  I am sure we will one day look back to this week and reflect upon the events it held.  Why do I say this?  Let me begin with this Monday night...our family, along with a friend, watched along with many a football fan as the Alabama Crimson Tide made history by winning the BCS Championship game by shutting LSU out.  Yes, that is correct, they did not allow LSU to score at all.  This was the first BCS Championship game to be won by a shut-out.  Furthermore, this brought Bama their 14th National Championship title (9 in 'the modern era' for the nay-sayers ;) ).  Secondly, on Wednesday morning as Old Socks was getting ready for work, a good friend (Angie) called & told us that her husband (Ryan) had 'wrecked the bike'.  We began to prepare to go to the scene of the accident when she called back to say the hospital had called to tell her that he was at the hospital.  We went straight to the hospital not knowing what to expect.  We arrived simultaneously with Angie.  I walked into the ER with her as Chas & David parked their vehicles.  When we got in, we were told that he was 'lucky' and that he was being prepped for x-ray.  One of the officers who worked the accident told us that Ryan had hit not one but two deer.  He said that one was 'cut in half' and that one could not have a bone left in its body that was unbroken (that one ended up wrapped up around a telephone pole).  I won't bore you with all of the details, but just know that 'lucky' was not in it...Ryan was incredibly blessed.  You see, he was going 50 or more mph and the bike went some 120 or more feet up the pavement, the car with the driver who witnessed the accident almost hit his bike, which could have easily been Ryan.  He did have nasty road rash, a cracked T-1 vertebra, cracked ribs & bruised lungs, but the very next day, our brother walked out of the hospital and went home.  Let's face it, we could have been going to a funeral.  Instead, we were blessed to worship our Lord with Ryan & Angie & their kids today!  Enough events to look back on?  Sure, but the week wasn't done.  That very night, Old Socks had the opportunity to meet with a friend who had been 'going through some major stuff'.  That meeting was only one event in this person's life for the week and not the first which is to be looked back upon as the days, weeks, months and years pass.  As of this morning, with the events of the week (minus the ballgame), worshiping the Lord together with all of these mentioned made it ever-sweet, which brings me to the following lyrics by Larnell Harris: "I can look beyond the skies, deep into the Father's eyes and see that there is hope for one like me. I can begin again with the passion of a child. My heart has caught a vision of a life that's still worthwhile. I can reach out again far beyond what I have done. Like a dreamer who's awakened to a life that's yet to come. For new beginnings are not just for the young. I face the dawn of each brand new day free from all the doubt that gripped my past. For I've found in trusting Him that everyday life starts again as I look toward the things of life that last..." 

Have you ever thought about it and just how easy it is to begin again and that everyday life starts again?  Do you look toward things of life that last?  Let me tell you, all you have to do is have a week like Old Socks and I have had and you realize that this is so very true.  Furthermore,  your heart can catch a vision of a life that IS still worthwhile...all you have to do is to TRUST HIM.  Do you trust Him?  You can...it is all up to you.  He is waiting on you to trust Him and you, too can 'Begin Again.'  Won't you do that today?  Tomorrow may be too late...It is my prayer that you not wait.

Until next time, consider new beginnings, 'with the passion of a child', as Larnell sings.  Oh, & as always, ride safely, my brothers & sisters.