A few days ago I got a new windshield. The next morning I was discussing things with
God and giving Him thanks for my blessings.
When I told Him I was thankful for the new windshield, the conversation
got really interesting. I don’t know how
He talks to you, but it’s always plain and simple, often with visuals for me.
He said, “You know that windshield is like the wounded
spirited people you work with?”
Me, “How?”
He said to think about how the whole thing happened and see
how it parallels to “real life”:
The crack started one day in a parking lot. I wasn’t with the car when the windshield got
the crack, but it was there when I got back to it. It really was a little crack, maybe about 2
inches tops. It was late in the day, and
on the passenger side of the car, so it didn’t really seem urgent to fix it. Within two days, the crack had grown to half
a foot. Still, it was on the other side
of the car and I really didn’t have the time nor the money to get it fixed.
The six inch crack stayed there – six inches – all through
the winter months. It didn’t get any
bigger and did not demand my attention. So, I ignored it. I would deal with it
later.
One day in the spring, my youngest daughter and I went to
the store. It was one of the early beautiful days of spring. The temperature no longer required a jacket
and the sun was shining bright. We
shopped for maybe an hour and got back to the car to discover the six inch
crack had spread almost all the way across the windshield! A little heat
evidently caused it to spread. Money was
still an issue, so I didn’t plan to replace it soon. The crack, however, was
right in my line of vision.
I am going to backtrack a bit here and explain what I
see: the windshield took some type of
blow that left it damaged. Probably not
the car’s fault since it was sitting still when it happened. We all take various hits and blows in
life. Some leave visible wounds. Some leave emotional or spiritual
wounds. I chose to ignore the crack in
the windshield like some of us choose to ignore the wounds we have. We think if we stuff them down, they will
just go away. When the heat came on, that little crack became a very large
issue, just like a little hurt can fester and some seemingly little thing can
make us feel like we are falling apart, and we choose to bury our heads in the
sand, we can’t change because we can’t get past this huge wound.
Now, there were times I could look around that huge crack
and kind of pretend it wasn’t there, but sometimes the sun (Son) would hit that
crack just right and it would nearly blind me! Like when Jesus brings something
to light that He wants to heal, but we close our eyes and ignore it as best we
can. Driving at night, a lot of times it
was difficult to see around that crack, like it can be difficult to see down
the road past the huge hurt we keep hanging on to. When the darkness comes, the hurt can become
all we can see. That in itself can cause
more pain, until pain is all we can see.
So, what do you do??
You have to make a change.
You have to let go of the cracked windshield- you call the windshield
Specialist and He brings you a brand new windshield, with no cracks.
