I know that we live in a fast paced world, and I know that as a consequence of our hectic schedules...everybody always seems to be in a hurry. But does that mean we get to overlook having a little courtesy when it comes to those around us? Just because we’re in a hurry, does that mean the world stops circling the sun and now it centers around us? Absolutely not!
I live near Kentucky Lake…just a beautiful place to see God’s creation. There’s a mountain bike trail that loops around Land Between the Lakes and goes alongside the canal that connects Lake Barkley to Kentucky Lake. Needless to say it’s a high traffic area that’s not very wide, but it’s a good place to catfish because of the current. Boats scream through that canal with the hammer down…flying across the water like it was on fire. Then, there are these little, aluminum John boats (mostly older generation fishermen) that are fishing near the rocks…riding the wakes of the terrorist/tourist boats that zip through the canal. It’s a sad picture to see this little, old man stumbling around in his 40 year old aluminum boat because these other “hotshot, big toy” fishermen think they own the water.
Now come on! Has it come to the point that we are in such a hurry to get from one fishing hole to another that we could care less about the little, old man (30 feet away…that’s been fishing for twice as long as most people have been alive) that we nearly knock clean out of his own boat as we fly past him!? Do we not have the common decency to slow down for other people?
“Let each of you NOT ONLY LOOK TO HIS OWN INTERESTS, but also the interests of others.” (Philippians 2:4). So, if you’re one of these terrorists who call themselves a tourist flying through the canal…remember: those little old men have shotguns in their boats.
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