Light and Dark
Those two almost made me crash the other morning. Did some work during the night on one of those phone systems. Customer won’t let us do many things during the day because it might effect service. So, after finishing work, came roaring home as the sun was just twinkling in the East. Grabbed my two computer cases and opened the door.
First thought was to get to the alarm and shut it off. Much to the chagrin of my shins, there was a fold-up chair just inside the door. Having driven in the dark, walking to the door with it’s porch light burning bright (or is that an entry light?) my eyes were not very “dark sensitive”.
“Ouch!” “What in the world?” My brain was so focused on getting to the alarm that it took a few seconds for my brain to adjust to the dark and know that feel was that chair.
No, I’m not going to retaliate with a clothsline stretched across the hall. It’s just that when things are not where you expect them, they cause you to stumble. If I had looked inside, more at floor level when I opened the door, the porch light would have let me see the chair. Instead, I had looked around the room rather quickly and seen that all the boys were sleeping and the TV was turned off.
The rest of life is kind of like that. We need to look (watch) where we walk (go) so we don’t step in or into something that should not be there. Things “pop up” in our lives that we don’t know about in advance. If we see them coming, we can do something about them – change directions, make plans to “leap tall buildings”, etc. So…get a little light and keep your eyes open.