Recollection of a Journey
Dear Eugene, My daughter passed her driving road test yesterday. She is a cool cat, playing her guitar, singing, right before the test, song of trust, trusting God, I heard. I hope I know how to stay chilled like her when it gets hot. During the one-year journey leading up to yesterday, this father was feeding on words of encouragement and wisdom from friends and family, even strangers. Even the night before the test. I first got the idea of not putting her through formal driving class from a family, five kids, a father, a mother, all down-to-earth. A few months before my daughter was ready for her written test, I asked this father, It must have cost you a fortune to put all your kids, one after one, behind the wheel? He said No, I taught them all. There I saw a possibility that the rest of the world-- my little world--was insisting on its nonexistence. So I followed the lead of this father, inspired to see new things, to try old ways. It w...