I am so grateful my life is as easy and simple as it is.

Sometimes the crap we don’t have to deal with a true blessing. I had just became a rideshare driver and got a passenger who I will most likely remember the rest of my life. I took him from Love Field Airport to a small town on the west side of Fort Worth in Friday afternoon rush hour traffic. For those not from the DFW metroplex, that would normally be a one and half hour drive, but the traffic was so intense, it took almost four hours. Fortunately, he was very nice since we were in the car together so long. We were close to the same age, liked the same music and he was easy to talk to. He was a rodeo clown and I needed the details on that. He told me about his wife, son and pets and we talked about my dog and the boy friend I had at the time. I was taking him to a restaurant to meet his friends. At one point to keep the conversation going, I asked him if his wife was going to meet him at the restaurant as well. He told me she wasn’t and he told me the reason he had gone on this trip. He said his wife had gone through two family deaths in two weeks and she was devastated. He said she was starting to feel better and then she had a vehicle accident. She hit a car from behind and it went into oncoming traffic. The car she hit got TBoned and the two children in the car that she hit died. At this point, she lost it. To make matters worse the police said she was texting and driving and were pressing charges. My passenger had put his wife in an emotional therapy center where she got to take care of horses. The reason he was coming back from the airport is because he had take his eighteen month old son to his parents house for a week so he could sell there house and get them settled somewhere else. My jaw hit my steering wheel. I told him he didn’t act like someone who was going through all this and that was a lot to watch the person you love the most go through and be such an amazing supporter to her. He laughed and he told me everyone said that, even his parents. The next thing he said had a huge impact on my life. He said “Well, all feeling bad would do is make me feel worse. It wouldn’t change anything”. I told him I agreed with him 100%, but knowing that and putting it into practice are two entirely different things. I told him I was so proud of him for pulling that off. He also told me that he learned from that experience that you don’t have to look far to find someone with bigger problems than you. His son was in that accident and he lived. He focused on the good in that situation and that got him through. That was about six years ago. I still pray for that man and his family each time I think of them. As a ride share driver I see people in all types of situations. I pray for them and also give thanks and affirm that my life is as easy as it is. Sometimes miracles happen like a car comes towards you in traffic and you barely escape colliding, or you stumble but stay on your feet. Sometimes I am truly grateful for what “appeared like it was going to happen but didn’t. I am grateful for the reminder. I encourage you to think of a situation that was painful and difficult and think of a few things in that situation that were a blessing.