The message that was on my heart this morning when I awoke was forgiveness. The theme of my inspirational speeches (I'm talking like I'm already doing them!) is "living between the white lines". That term came from conversations I had with myself last year when my wife was slowly dying of lung cancer and I was coming home from work. As I drove along the Interstate, I let my mind wander down some dark tunnels and I started crying. My eyes were so full of tears, I could barely see the highway. So I shouted out loud to myself, “COME BACK! Stay here in the present. Just keep the car between the white lines.” And it worked!The thing that triggered my thinking is a high school reunion this coming weekend. Fifty years since we graduated from Ardmore High School in Ardmore, Oklahoma. I imagined standing up in front of the room at the dinner Saturday night and saying:
"Fifty years ago, when we knew each other, some of us were socially awkward. Or arrogant. Or afraid. Or, in a few cases, downright mean. Well, most of us have gotten over that. We've matured or mellowed or in some cases gotten religion.
“But some of the people who knew us 'back then' have not gotten over the old hurts, the snubs, the ridicule. I just invite all of us now to sweep aside the bamboo curtain that keeps us trapped in the past. Let's pull that curtain back and take look at who's here right now, right in front of us.
“You may be in for a huge and wonderful surprise!”
Walk with the King today and be a blessing.
KEEP THE CAR BETWEEN THE WHITE LINES! GOD LIVES IN THE PRESENT.
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