"How's your ride?"

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I recently rode with someone else. Now normally, I’m just along for the ride when someone else does the driving. I’m talking and looking out the window, but this time I couldn’t do that. My friend drives with one foot on the accelerator and the other foot on the brake. So down the road we go, but not very smoothly. He jerked me around the entire trip. It just wasn’t a smooth ride of easing off the accelerator and then applying the brakes. It was accelerator—brake—accelerator, just really abrupt.

When I got out of the vehicle, and said a prayer of thanks, I realized that some times I do life like that. Maybe you do, too. I go headlong into a project, only to stop abruptly for an interruption. Then when that’s over, I’m back to full speed.

The key to a smooth life’s ride is pacing, easing in and easing out of situations, while focusing on one thing at a time that God brings to your attention. And that’s why listening to life and making a life is so important. As you listen to life, God focuses you on what’s most important and that makes for a smooth ride.

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