Today is the one of the busiest travel days of the year. I have already seen some of the results on Facebook. A friend posted that "Every crazy person in Texas is traveling (the road she was on). Just shoot me now."
I remember traveling I-35 on this day years ago when we were in seminary in Ft. Worth and headed south for home and Thanksgiving. We sat in stop and go traffic for hours north of Waco. We thought there must be a bad accident because all the southbound lanes were diverted onto the feeder road. It turned out to be there was a patch of broken concrete about 10 feet across in one of the southbound lanes. It cost us and thousands of others, hours in drive time.
It's funny how many things can happen on Thanksgiving weekend to cause us not to be thankful. I once heard the insight that the fruit of the Spirit are all grown in circumstances that could produce just the opposite. In other words, love is more likely grown in place where it is difficult to love. The same is true of the rest of the fruit - joy, peace, patience and the rest.
I know that thankfulness is not one of the fruit of the Spirit but it too can be grown in the situations that could cause us to become ungrateful and grumbling. Are you going to let something rob you of your gratitude this weekend? Why not try this experiment with me. Can you give God five straight minutes of gratitude? Can we just pray and thank God for five minutes without a request or intercession - just thanks? Would you try that with me this weekend? You can even do it while stuck in traffic. Let's see what difference it makes.
For the journey...
Tim
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