Last Thursday, November
4, a woman drove her car to the Port Mann bridge, stopped and
stepped out into harm's way. In one instant she exchanged her
earthly coat for her eternal one. No one will ever really know what
she was thinking as she was deciding to stop. Is it possible she was
feeling unimportant, that her life didn't matter, that no matter what
she did, nothing would ever be any different?
She changed her life
forever. And thousands of other lives were also changed. As the
traffic snafu rolled out, multitudes of plans were altered: doctors
appointments, auditions, interviews, dinner dates, legal
consultations, banking transactions, daycare deadlines, workouts....
all changed and rearranged. Thousands of drivers spent four hours in their car
instead of one hour, or an hour instead of five minutes. The chaos
changed everybody's day, at least on the surface, for the worse.
We are all connected,
intertwined, resonating together here in the world. We just don't
always see it. "Everybody else" is affected by "everybody else". My
actions change everything. When what I do is driven by a deep
belief in my heart (the real me!) that I am loved magnificently by
my Heavenly Father and that Jesus died, was buried and rose again to
bring me into peace with such a magnificent God, everything changes
for the better. When what I do is driven by fear, fatigue, sadness
or discouragement , the changes I make in the world around me are not
for the better. Thoughts become feelings and feelings become beliefs
and beliefs become words and words become actions. Jesus said, “As
a man thinks in his heart, so is he”. It's a lot to think about.
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