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Car Crash
By Faith Brown
 Prov
3:5-6, "Trust in the
Lord with all your heart and
lean not on your own understanding; in all your ways acknowledge him, and he
will make your paths straight."
If anyone knows a lot on how
material things let you down, it is definitely me. I have lost my computer
with thousands of songs on it, and I constantly lose other items. During all
of this time, I have learnt that material things are not to be trusted. I
have had so many iPods that I have actually stopped caring about them. I no
longer take hours making playlists or spend money on nice covers. God has
taught me to not put my trust in earthly objects. The moment I start
trusting in them, they ALWAYS break down or something bad happens to them.
Take my car story as an example.
I got my license and soon
afterwards, I bought a car. Because my birthday is in October, I was one of
the first juniors at my school to get a car and license. I thought I was so
cool in my yellow car. I would drive with the windows down, country music
blaring through the speakers, and my awesome shades covering my eyes. It was
indestructible, but not for long. Not even a year after I got my car, I
crashed into my mailbox. Yes, I know that is insane but it happened. I guess
I couldn’t judge distance very well and rode right into it. It didn’t help
matters that our mailbox is made of brick so it went flying across the
driveway. Thankfully, my car wasn’t too damaged and neither was the mailbox.
Spending a ridiculous amount of cash for a bumper (I crashed into it front
first), my car was fixed.
Of course, this story does
not end with a happy ending. I went back to thinking I was ridiculously
amazing in my car and trusting that my car was going to always take me where
I wanted to go. Then, the Good Friday incident happened about 2 months after
the mailbox ordeal. I was driving with my friend to Starbucks when I decided
to take a short cut through Wendy’s. I was waiting to turn for what seemed
like forever until one of the cars decided to let me in. The moment I
turned, BAM! I hit a car. The airbags flew out and my friend and I were
screaming our heads off in panic. I turned to steer the car so it wouldn’t
go straight into the pole. I remember when I finally stopped the car, I kept
saying, “Oh my gosh. I am dead. I am grounded. I am never going to do
anything again. I’m never going to England.” Needless to say, that car was
history. It was totaled and I have not seen it since we sold it to a random
person that wanted to buy it.
No matter how horrible the
accident was, I did learn a lesson from it. If we’re prideful, conceited, or
rely on other things, we will be let down. Maybe we won’t get in a car
crash, but something may happen that is not pleasant. After that time, I had
to rely on God entirely to help me pay for my senior trip to England and to
pay off all the damages done. You know what? Unlike my car and iPods, He did
not and has not let me down. Within a month, I had paid for everything and
by August, my senior trip was paid in its entirety. Everything we have in
our houses can break or tear, but God is always standing firmly.
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