Ok before I get to the meat of the entry today, I gotta tell you about my Fleetwood Mac concert experience last night. The whole thing was a surprise from getting the tickets for free 2 hours before the show started to the attractive Russian date that I inherited with the two tickets. And the concert rocked! On of my really good guy friends who I lived with in college use to listen to Fleetwood Mac all the time, but I never realized the diversity and talent of the band. They were awesome! So that was that…
Now, on to what happened to me this morning. So I am exiting the elevator in the parking garage and I see these guys standing around. A little weird but whatever…then I get to my car and realize that my passenger window is gone! Well not really gone if you count all the pieces resting on my passenger seat. And the contents of my glove compartment were strewn everywhere…which was actually kinda helpful because I had been meaning to clean that thing out (I would think I would have gone in through the door versus the window but to each his own)…anyway, the funniest thing is that there was nothing to take! I mean, I had just cleaned my car out a few days before and the stereo is factory so they didn’t want it…I realized later that my point and shoot digital had been in the cup holder but even that was definitely getting on in years and had little to know resale value…but the best part of this whole experience was what I noticed when I went to open the door…my alarm was still on! Like my stereo, my alarm was also factory installed and is only hooked up to the doors. So the thieves could break the window but as long as they didn’t open the doors there wasn’t an alarm. And that seems like a really cool analogy for what we try to do with our lives…ok it is a bit of a jump but follow me…it is like locking the doors to your car with all the windows down…doesn’t make much sense does it! But that is what we try to do with our lives: we try to use the security of all types of things like material wealth or good deeds to try and protect ourselves from the ‘thieve in the night’. But the windows are still down! The only thing that will truly protect us from Satan is the saving grace of what Christ did for us on the cross. Cheesy as it may sound, he is the ultimate in security ;0)
You didn’t think I was really going to be able to pull that off did you! 😉