They Looked Like Steady Hands

Murphy's Law promptly states that "if anything can go wrong, it will"...doesn't that seem all too true all the time? Jake Eppinga in one of his Banner anecdotes rolled thru a couple other similar rules of life, such as;

-A shortcut is the longest distance between two points
-If there's no time to do it right, there's time to do it again
-If you want something bad enough, chances are you won't get it

And so on and so forth. When you look at it that way, isn't it amazing that we, as depraved human beings, can get anything right? In a world where signals and words can get crossed (and make people cross) so easily its a wonder we don't enter cataclysmic world wars more often, much less family feuds, neighborhood scuffles, and tifts with what-she-said and what-he-said's. Moreover, in a time where precision matters, doesn't it seem more amazing than not that when it counts, our bodies and minds somehow get it done? Think about it; we're little more than flesh, bones, tissues, electronic pulses and a few liquids sloshing and pulsating around to the rythmic beat of a fist shaped lump and the instructions of a wrinkled ball jammed into our cranium. Yet, it is these pieces of matter that compose beautiful operas and deafinging guitar solos, construct epic skyscrapers and moving memorials, create nuclear fission and bake some of the best Mexican food you've ever tasted.

What awesome hands, heads, feet and minds we have been given to work such complex problems with such accuracy and precision at times. We're not perfect, but for how unperfect I am, I am always amazed how much I can do right (with a little help...and a LOT of grace!)

The point? 17 hours of driving with no accidents, car problems, bathroon issues, directional misfortunes, crazy hitchhikers, emotional breakdowns or dehydration; that's grace there folks, simple as that. To know My heavenly Father knows the number of hairs on my head and wills them to make it in one piece is a comfort no one can truly understand.

Tomorrow is my first day working here, so here's to these hands which may be shaky, rough, uncultured or just plain klutzy, but with the right one moving them for me, I am sure, by prayer and grace and conformaty to the movements of the one guiding; that His will shall be done.

Love you all...Go wings

PS yeah, had to throw the Bayside song title in there. Kudos to those who got that reference : )