Good morning. An old car on a hard road. This morning I had a competitive experience with a gentleman driving an older model car. Throughout the stretch of the 6 mile highway from our neighborhood to the interstate, he literally smoked me. To give you a visual, I was still in the last curve when he was exiting onto I55. Then something weird happened. He fell back completely out of sight.
I could only come away with the assumption that though he knew his older car was able to burn pavement on a short highway, he failed to understand that it could do the same in the distance. Nothing changed but the highway, but when it was time to go the distance, fear controlled his confidence, and he simply chose to fall back. Because of his own insecurities and doubt, he placed limitations on the car and simply became hind sight to all around him. What the owner of that old car failed to see was that all of his power wasn’t just under the hood. He forgot that more power existed in his faith and confidence, than in the engine alone.
Many people are very similar to the driver of that old car. They will be right there with you for the short, wild rides that don’t require anything of them. They will be there during those moments when seemingly life itself can’t touch you. They will push you to your max but only to get out of you what they need at that moment. But when it’s time to go the distance, they decelerate out of uncertainty. When the bright colors and flashiness is gone, so is their faith and support in you.
When it all comes together, you and that old car need the same thing… someone whose faith matches yours. Someone who’s strapped in and in it for the ride. What you need is someone who isn’t afraid to break you and tell you the truth by pushing you beyond your limits so that they can help repair you – so that they can help make you better. Much like my friend, Rox. 
Peace – Kimberly
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