Family member of yours? You certainly seem to be taking the comments personally.
Family member of yours? You certainly seem to be taking the comments personally.
It actually seems to be my MO.
About 12 years ago I was headed home from work on a beautiful day and some guy in a kind of beat up ford explorer was driving like a madman trying to pass people behind me, me, and those in front of me. His window was rolled down and he looked to be in his mid 20’s and was dirty, like he had a physical labor type of job. It was a two lane thoroughfare.
The guy got crazier and crazier with his driving and dangerous passing. In fact, it got so bad that I decided to follow the event past my turn. I was rewarded about a half hour later to see him slide off the road and into a dirt hillside on the other side of the deep Seattle suburb ditch, producing a huge cloud of dust. Oh, and he almost hit a pretty young lady that was jogging.
Now, Everyone stopped and tried to subdue the guy. We got him down and I noticed that everyone was treating him as many are treating this lady. He certainly deserved it more. But with five burly men holding him down and swearing at him and making threats, I felt for the guy. He may have lost his job that he desperately needed. He may have been racing home to an injured child. He may have found out his wife was having an affair. Who knows.
The important thing was to keep him there, but the vitriol was really un-necessary.
And I say this as a 62 year old man that has had good days and bad days. We all have. I take very seriously the admonishment to judge not, lest we be judged. I feel confident that if a little cop was following every single person on the planet, we would all - every single one of us - be caught doing things worse than what this woman did at one time or another. And anyone that denies it is a liar.
So I come to the defense of such people against the half witted and emotional barbs slung at them by their fellow human beings. And to further amplify, yes, she deserves the vitriol in the same way we all do, which is why the blood of Christ matters - to every single one of us.