It happened in a blink of an eye. I was not thinking. And driving probably a little too fast on that stretch of road nearby. A deer darted in front of me from my left. I reacted instinctively and stepped on the brakes just enough to miss it by inches.
It was a stretch of the road I am usually more cautious on. Deer cross the road to drink from the small creek below. I have often flushed deer here but I was preoccupied. It was the also the middle of the day.
After that close call I was shaking. You bet I drove slower and more carefully on the way home. Your life can change in a split second. Sometimes we forget that. Angels are often watching over us.
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Wonder and mystery is many things. It is being surprised by a sunset. Your mind was somewhere else and there it was taking your breath away. It is knowing you never could have predicted your life and how it was unraveling. Your wife is a mystery, who you know you did not deserve. It is so many things you do not understand but strain to. It is knowing this world could never have been created by man: it is far too vast and intricate. That there must be a higher power. That could be the only answer. Not that all this is not a mystery. There is so much I am awed by. The mystery called sex. Only God could have created that. The wind that blows from nowhere and disappears just as quickly.
Knowing your dusk has come and you really have no idea how many dawns will still appear in your life and all you can do is treasure each moment. Wouldn’t life be boring without mystery and wonder? And do you have any doubt man was created just below the stature of angels? And also the universe could not have created by chance. All that is mystery (and wonder). So ponder some of those things.
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