I mean you have people who have what
has been characterized as “Type A personalities” who take risks, and I’m not only
referring to investing in dicey stocks, or dropping too many coins in a slot
machine.
I have often watched videos on YouTube
and social media which depicts these guys who take the most insane risks to
their personal safety. The latest I have viewed has this guy running up a 45
degree ramp on a motorcycle and sailing wildly through the air. As he reaches the
insane height of fifty feet, we see him hanging beneath the motorcycle only to
remount the seat, and land safely on another ramp a hundred feet from where he
started.
As I was walking my dog along a street
in my subdivision today, I witnessed an almost equally strange and unusual
sight. A six or seven year old boy running down the street on a miniature ATV.
As he and I were facing the same direction, and a car was quickly approaching us,
the little guy came around me on the shoulder of the road. As he rode by on the
left, he said, “Excuse me, Sir,” and I responded with, “No problem, young man.”
As you might imagine, I was prone to
say, “Son, what in the world are you thinking? Don’t you know you’re too young
to be sailing down the road “like a bat outta h_ _ _?”
A couple minutes later, and after I
had done a 180, and turned for home, I noticed the same little boy, and the
same ATV. However, this time around, he had a 2-3 year old boy seated on his
lap! I assumed they were brothers.
And I could only wonder, “What could
your parents possibly be thinking?”
As I said as I began this musing, I have
often wondered how God balances out His plans for each of us as individuals, vs.
how we, as human beings, insist on placing our lives in jeopardy.
by William McDonald, PhD
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