Do you ever wonder why people drive around like zombies high on some drug or other? They cut you off and make you feel awful, or they just generally tick you off for one reason or another.

The reason why, I think, in a lot of cases is that they are driving around in their own portable family room.

Think about it. A person is driving in a comfortable chair, sometimes even more comfortable than the recliner in their family room. They have a notebook computer (hopefully closed) in the front passenger seat. The stereo is blaring their favorite music. They have two kids in the back seat, one listening to their own music via headphones and the other one is playing a handheld video game.

The person that is driving is on their cell phone yelling at their spouse or getting yelled at by their boss. Or maybe they are talking to the girlfriend or boyfriend or wife or husband, trying to communicate on some level that they can grasp at the time.

All this while barreling down the highway at speeds hopefully not past the speed limit. But yet surpassing it quite often not even realizing it because they are too busy with personal affairs to care.

Now compare all this to a typical family room setting, and I am guessing the two aren't really that much different.

So here we have hundreds of thousands of family rooms travelling at speeds above what mere mortals would consider safe and you can get some kind of idea why there are so many fender benders and people driving around like lions prancing through the jungle looking for fresh meat.

So you begin to wonder if the other driver actually left their real family room or just decided to carry it around with them.

Will this continue? Of course it will. Will it get worse? Of course it will.

So what do you do? You pray that the next person who cuts you off on the freeway will wake up and realize that their are other people outside their little portable family rooms.

What it all boils down to and this is the solution to a lot of life's problems and that is to pray.

I mean what else can you do? There really isn't anything you can do besides pray. You can't change other people because the only one that can change another is themselves or God.

Sometimes there are wake up calls in life. You go through life thinking everything is going to be alright and then someone close to you dies and your own personal microcosm of life is shattered and you find yourself picking up all the pieces. But don't try to pick up the pieces, just find new ones.

And the way to do that is through a lasting relationship with God. Oh, I know. It's a cliche. But you have to realize that there are other higher forces at work and you have to let that one do their job. By their I mean God. He has a job to do. Nobody on this planet knows what that job is, but if you pray for guidance that job may be clearer as time goes on.

But the only way to find that out is to pray every day and consistently so that the answers that keep eluding you will someday be answered.

So what do you do in the mean time? You pray and read the Bible for guidance. Because without these two factors your life will become like a leaf that falls off the tree to dry up and wither away, meaningless and without a history to hand down to others that will let people know that that person did something with their life and that was to make God a part of it.

Let God be a part of your life and you will start to understand what your meaning is for your own portable family room.

Prayer: Dear Lord, let the people of this world take caution in their driving and to not get so absorbed in their own portable family room that they don't take notice of the world around them and what treasures there are in getting to know you on a personal basis. Give me the insight into knowing what you want for my life. And help me make sense of things that elude me. I thank you for helping me to be safe when I drive and I thank you for all your many blessings. Amen.

Benediction: Now, Lord, Bless us in our daily lives. Help us to smell the roses whenever possible, to shine our light on those less fortunate than us, and lead us in the path we should go. For you are the light that keeps our path well lit. Help us to follow it, until we meet you, in a land where milk and honey abound, a place where our most wonderful dreams are fulfilled. Amen.

Hi, my name is Bryan, a messenger of hope who would love to hear from you. God Bless.

© 2004 Bryan Hill