Sunday, October 17, 2010

Birds on Wires

We drove to the airport again. With out a cloud in the sky, warm sun hitting my jeaned knees. My mom points to the birds sitting on a bunch of telephone wires high in the sky above Interstate 81 South. Why do you suppose birds sit so close together while some spread out and need space. Why are there only two birds sitting all the way down there in the right hand corner away from everyone else in this picture I'm recalling in my head.

We ask the question, "Why" a lot. Why this, why that, why you, WHY ME?! This day above anything else I find myself asking that question silently...over...and over...and over again.

To be 2 minutes late to check in my bag to catch a 6:02am Eastern time flight to Chicago and end up completely missing my flight because of 2 lousy minutes, it makes me wonder, "why?"

Why did my alarm not work? Why did my mom not wake me up like she always does for things like this? What made her assume for the first time ever that I was awake? Why did she not have her cell phone on when she dropped me off? Why did I miss my flight even after killing myself to make it through security, unchecked bag and all?...I know someone who knows. I know that whether it involves me or not who knows what would have happened if I had gotten on that flight. Everything didn't want me to get on that flight From waking up late to the very fact that I couldn't locate my boarding pass when I thought it was in my fleece pocket in security.

Who knows? The good Lord does for hes the one who may have just prevented me dieing in a crash, mugging in Chicago. Or even something that has nothing physically to do with me like Jen driving to San Fran to pick me up. Maybe prevented something there. Or someone else I don't even know. Everything connecting in winding passageways and precis connecting of these dots that are far to complicated for the brilliant human mind to wrap our thoughts around.

So this brings me back to something I look at every time I sit down in the bathroom at my house in PA.

The Power of Attitude

"Our lives are not determined by what happens to us,
but how we react to what happens; not by what life
brings us, but by the attitude we bring to life. A positive
attitude causes a chain reaction of positive thoughts,
events and outcomes. It is a catalyst... a spark that
creates extraordinary results."



I haven't a clue what's in store for me for the rest of the day. However I do know that my bag was checked at 6:30am for my flight that leaves for Detroit at 4:30pm...

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