Thats Not Normal...

Ahh the blessings of morning traffic. The car that gives more than its fair share of carbon monoxide exhaust to you and everyone around you within a 400 mile radius. What usually takes 15 minutes to get to, is about 45min-1hr. The guy that cuts everyone off because he didn't wake up in time. The woman who doesn't know how to drive. Morning traffic, there's nothing like it...

The other day, what I witnessed in morning traffic made me think a little deeper about the drivers involved. It's not something you see everyday. You could probably say it was unusual, to the point of abnormal.

It was loop 410 about 7:50 in the morning. Cars stacked up on the freeway. Some guy in a truck is trying to get on 410 and this white volvo refuses to let him in. He goes out of his way to stop him from getting on, it was VICIOUS. Morning traffic at it's finest! So the truck ends up squeezing in somewhere else. Now up to this point nothing unusual has occurred. Thats the blessing of getting up late and hitting morning traffic. Its pretty much the norm. But what happens next makes me look at the situation to a deeper degree. I never thought traffic would do that for me. Anyway... The truck gets on the highway, its pretty heavy traffic. The truck happens to get a good position in a faster lane. The lane you want to be in, but got stuck instead in the slow lane. Thats what happened to the white volvo. He was stuck in the slow lane trying to get over. Then all of a sudden the same truck that got cuff off by the volvo slows down to let the white volvo in. The same volvo that wouldn't let him get on the highway!

It was abnormality unfolding right before my eyes. NO ONE DOES THAT! When a car cuts someone off, there's usually a war that takes place. But not this time. The guy in the truck goes out of his way to be nice to the guy that cut him off. I wonder what the guy in the volvo was thinking? I wonder if he thought about it later like I did?

I saw that and thought, Thats Christianity at it's finest. Loving those who least expect it and least deserve it. Returning kindness for anger. Thats what Jesus taught! That's not normal in our world today, but That's what an unbelieving world can't ignore. The love of Jesus Christ. It's different. It's not normal, But it's the very thing that makes people say "I dont know what it is that you have, but I want it!" AND Thats how it should look like when you do it right.