Today like, all other days, had its ups and downs.<\/p>\n
Today at lunch, I let some kids sit at our lunch table because someone kicked them out of their table. \u00a0That’s an up, I guess. I felt pretty good, even though some people at our table didn’t like that they were sitting with us.<\/p>\n
I got home today and started playing video games with the mentality that “I’ll do my homework later.” Up.<\/p>\n
We had a concert today. Orchestra concert. We did rather well. Had a swell time. Up.<\/p>\n
On the way home, my aunt made a left going into where McDonald’s is, across from Arco, probably thinking there’s a road going through. “Oh,” she said. “There’s no road.” Then she went forward for a second or two, then took a right.<\/p>\n
Into a ditch.<\/p>\n
Triple down.<\/p>\n
My cousin, his friend and I got out to try to push it out of the mud it was stuck in while my aunt tried to back out. No luck.<\/p>\n
I went across the street to ask someone for help. We spent 15 minutes \u00a0trying to find somewhere to hook his rope into. We found a place where the spare tire goes. There’s a latch in the compartment. Meanwhile, someone from Les Schwab stopped in. As well as a friend from school who also happened to be at the concert and was stopping by McDonald’s.<\/p>\n
He took the first guy’s\u00a0 “wimpy V6” SUV and tried to pull it out while Mr. Schwab put the car in reverse and tried to back out. The rope snapped.<\/p>\n
Next we tried under the rear bumper. The bumper warped. A lot. We had to stop.<\/p>\n
Instead of cursing God, though, I praised him. I thanked him for these peoples’ hospitality while my patience wore thin. I thought about reasons maybe why this happened. Then it struck me.<\/p>\n
God was testing me. Was he? I think he was, in a way. Testing my faith. Wondering if I would curse Him in dire times. Or to call out to Him as a request or as a praise.<\/p>\n
My mom arrived on the scene, frantic. I calmed her down and told her nothing was wrong.<\/p>\n
We called a tow truck (thank God for Meridan Towing) that pulled us out in five minutes. That was an hour after we fell in.<\/p>\n
As my mom was taking me home, I thought about how I would have to give excuses to my teachers tomorrow, telling them why I hadn’t finished my homework.<\/p>\n
Then I thought of something else. Maybe God’s telling me, “Get off your sorry behind and quit procrastinating.”<\/p>\n
Maybe this was a reward for being hospitable toward those \u00a0two kids who had come to our lunch table today.<\/p>\n
Because nothing is a coincidence. Everything happens for a reason.<\/p>\n
I don’t know. Things are complicated, man.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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