I am dumbfounded
about garage doors. The first house Hailee and I owned a lady flipped the house
and put a beautiful garage door on the garage. It looked great but there was
only one problem, the garage wasn’t long enough. It could fit our Geo Prism at
the time but no chance of fitting out Grand Am. So we had a two and a half car
garage that could only fit a half car. Not making that mistake again, but yet I
make others.
Now checking
garage doors is a staple of getting a house. Our second house had a one care
garage and it was fine. We are more careful with checking the dimensions of the
garage and did with our third house. We made sure our vehicles could fit in it,
but it requires us to be careful. The doors is so tight that we have to
carefully enter and exist out of our garage door. Twice I was not careful. The
first time I cleared it in my first glance, but I was proven wrong. I caught
about half the mirror, broke the surrounding plastic and cracked the glass in
multiple spots. Not my finest moment, then last week I caught the thin corner
ever so slightly and it broke again. This was not as bad as the first time, but
I crack a corner of the plastic shell. Being alert cost me two mirrors and made
me question why someone would make a general two and a half car garage with
such a small window to get the vehicles in? Yet when it comes down to it, not
be alert cost me two mirrors.
Being alert is a
great trait and can cost greatly when we don’t use it. Every Friday I look
forward to the lighter side of sports when I watch the Not Top 10 on
Sportscenter. One of the shocking moments is when someone thinks they are done
and prematurely celebrates a victory. I have seen this happened in multiple
cycling events and a couple of long distance running events. Not being alert
cost these people a victory like it cost me my mirror (Multiple times).
Ephesians
6:18-19
“And pray in the
Spirit on all occasions with all kinds of prayers and requests. With this in
mind, be alert and always keep on praying for all the Lord’s people.”
I firmly believe
in the power of prayer. I have seen it work multiple times in my life and in
the lives around me. Anything and everything can be prayed over, it’s giving our
concerns over to God. Some people don’t believe in prayer because it’s on God’s
timing instead of ours. We grow impatient when we pray and the results aren’t
immediate or we get the wrong results. Some times God knows what is better for
us then we do. Prayer is giving our worries, concerns and desires over to God
and trusting he knows what’s best. Sometimes you might be praying the same prayer
for months or years before things change. God’s timing is not our timing.
We are told to
be alert in prayer. One way this can be described is making an effort to learn
what could be a potential future threat. At times my prayer life can be
sporadic. If I see someone on social media asking for prayer, I come to the
conclusion if I don’t pray right then, I will forget. So I stop what I am doing
and say a prayer at that moment. My prayer life should be in overdrive right
now and I need to get back up to that level. Things I need to pray about, what
it’s like growing up with a teenage daughter and starting to look at her
dating. I need to pray about my future and what God has in store for me. I need
to pray for my life right now and how I can serve God and my family to the best
of my abilities just to name a few.
What do you need
to pray about or need to do to take that next step in prayer? As my anxiety can
overtake me, I need to do a better job in going to God in prayer. Relying on my
own abilities has cost me more then two mirrors, I need to be alert and
remember to up my prayer game, how about you?
Have a great
day.
