Right where you are, there is healing

Years back, I held two jobs—managing a Christian Science college housing facility and working full time selling diamonds. Both jobs required my using my car in order to be on time for my jobs.

On Friday mornings, about ten minutes before I needed to leave for work, the garbage truck would arrive. After the men emptied the trash, the bin would be tossed behind my car in the driveway, the space designated for me to park. Leaving notes and talking to the driver asking them to please set the trash can at the side of the drive never helped. 

Though I would be fully dressed and ready to go on those days, it fell to me to move the can myself and it was difficult to do without getting dirty. I generally spent the next forty minutes on the way to work, praying to overcome irritation in my thought. This happened weekly for almost a year.

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On the road with God
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Healing of the past is no human ‘do over’
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