Falling berries

Birds chirp...soothing breeze...warm sun overhead...the daily ride home.  Rowe is riding down a street with tall trees on both sides.  "Mmm, can't wait to have an evening of leisure with Abe..." Rowe thinks to herself, already in relaxation mode.  Then, from up above, a berry falls on her.  She hardly takes notice of it.  She rides on several feet, then another berry falls, quickly followed by another one.  "Oww" Rowe murmurs to herself.  The berries don't hurt, but they do feel like tiny little pebbles.  As she rides down the street, the berries continue to fall, quicker...faster...and at this time, yes, they do begin to hurt a little.  "What the ----!" Rowe exclaims, perplexed as to the onslaught of falling berries.  She slows her bike considerably, almost to a crawl, growing irritable.  Upon approaching a four-way stop, Rowe downshifts to stop.  All of a sudden, a car on the perpendicular street speeds through the intersection, not stopping at the stop sign.  "Whoa", Rowe realizes as she stops her bike, "if I had been going any faster, I would have been run over..."

Many circumstances in life seem to slow down our "ride".  We may get distraught that things aren't going as we had planned.  Without the falling berries, Rowe would have been riding down the street faster, and consequently, would have been hit by the speeding car.  But this "ride" isn't ours, it's His.  Since He sees what lies ahead, God sometimes sends the "falling berries" in our lives to slow us down.  At aHbe Racer we are thankful for a God who loves us.  We may not understand when difficult times arise, but we trust He works all things for good.  In awe, we follow Him on this "ride", all the way "home", while the wheels are spinning...