those gut feelings
you know them...the sudden onset of apprehension deep within your being.
last night chris saw an ad in our apartment's monthly flier for a car for sale. when he called on it, he learned that the seller is asking very little for it because it belonged to his daughter who died recently in a car accident. it's just over 10 years old, but it looked to be in very decent shape. when chris told me about it, and that he was interested in it for me, and we looked at it, I immediately experienced that gut feeling.
after trying to decipher my gut feeling and attempting to be rational and responsible, we realized that even though the car was an absolute steal (comparitively after looking up the blue book value), the gut feeling hadn't gone away, we are not in the right position to buy it, and even if we made it happen, we would be acting very selfishly.
because we know someone who needs that car.
a friend of ours was in a car accident, shattered her ankle and totaled her car. after being surprised to discover that she actually had full coverage on said wreck, she got a check in the mail from her insurance company covering the value. and it was worth more than she thought.
I just came inside from chris taking our friend to check out this car that's for sale. barring a visit to a mechanic to check it out, it really is the steal we thought it might be. and our friend's check is more than enough to cover the cost of this car.
one more thought on gut feelings.
when I was in college a friend of mine had a job interview. I actually was standing by the door to the music building at the same time she was supposed to leave for it. but she told me that she just didn't have a good feeling about it. something wasn't right. she didn't even go to the job interview.
and because something wasn't right, she didn't get the job. someone else did. and because of that gut feeling, a few weeks later I started that job and met some people named dwight wade, todd hoek, doug, ezra, marlana, rachel, paul, matt...and the rest, as they say my dear friends, is history.
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Woo Hoo for gut feelings! You know, I could say the same thing about that year. I don't know if you remember but I was about a week away from signing up for the Air Force that summer after I started doing sound for the choir but something about it didn't seem right about it. You know everyone always expects God to talk to them with a booming voice or a burning bush, but maybe he just tweaks us a little when the big choices are put in front of us. I don't think the things that shape our lives just happen by accident.
I love yer guts.
really...I do.
You know, they say that the best anecdotes are the ones that hit home... i suppose it helps when said anecdote involves your name personally, but, i digress.
But, wait a tic, so, we almost had a different choir director? Is she cooler than you? By that, i mean would she have threatened us with bodily harm if we had missed notes, cues, etc?
that's right, you almost missed me. and she was a girly girl, and by that I mean she wore lipstick all the time and would NOT have threatened to throw anybody through a wall. she's certainly pretty, but hey, looks aren't everything; right?
i don't care for the girly girls. My wife doesn't even own any lipstick, and I'm ok with that.
your wife rules ;)
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