Why did we not think of that?!?

Had to take the boys down to the school this morning for a Polo game, and I apparently took the wrong route, and we got stuck at the 'Light of Death'. There is a certain light that is notorious for taking an extremely long time to change for people going east or west, and the boys had been stuck there so many times it had earned itself a nickname!

We were behind a friend from the team, and his carpool buddy, and we had noticed each other and were making faces and having fun driving to practice, but when they got to the 'Light of Death', they knew exactly how to deal with it! The carpool buddy jumped out of the car almost immediately, ran to the side of the road, and pressed the button to alert the light of a pedestrian, and ran back to the car. We waited about thirty seconds after that until the light turned green, and we were able to go through. Behind me I heard a chorus of 'Awe man!!! How come we never thought of that?!?!?'. Landon sitting next to me, turned and looked at Lucas and said simply, 'Because, when we are here, it's five in the morning, and our brains don't function until we hit the pool.'

How often do we go through life with problems we think are 'Problems of Death', and all it takes is a simple solution, but we can't think of it ourselves. Do we sometimes not think about what's going on until we 'hit the pool'? I wonder how many problems I have given up on when all it took was getting out of the car for a second.

How much would our lives improve if we had a carpool buddy to help us out with problems we can't figure out ourselves? Don't we have that buddy? Just like a carpool buddy, if your car isn't a good environment, no friend is going to want to drive with you. If you are a mean person, people don't want to be around you. The same is true of the Spirit. If you don't have a good environment, he won't hang around, but if we invite him in and do things to keep him there, he has offered to be our 'carpool buddy' through life. He is there to help us through the simple problems we can't figure out on our own.

I challenge you to make sure you are living your life so that your carpool buddy wants to ride with you.

-Tenacious Tenor