Flourishing Today

The Story of a Car

A young woman was in a car accident. It had been a very hard year for the young woman, and while the accident was a relatively minor one, it pushed her to the edges of her resourcefulness. Her fear of the future overwhelmed her, and for a few days, the young woman was paralyzed with overwhelm. How could she afford to fix her car? What if this raised her insurance? She didn’t have work, how could she work if she didn’t have a car? On top of it, she was far from home and the people she knew. To top it off, the young woman believed she had to go at it alone. Fortunately, she had a two dear friends, who brushed her up and helped her stand once more, but she still had few answers.

The first estimate was $4,000, more than the worth of the car, and certainly more than the young woman could afford. Luckily, one of her friends was able to help her sit down at the body shop, and find out what it would take to make the car run legally.

Thankfully, we are never alone. The man at the body shop figured the frame could be pulled out… the headlight replaced… if unbent, the hood could be re-latched..

Sometimes, we believe we are alone, and the solutions have to be perfect. Yet we are never alone and while the solutions we find are not always beautiful ones, they are solutions we have. There is an art to identifying when do we hold out for the full enchilada, and when do we decide to accept that right now, this will have to be enough to eat, because that is what will sustain us to find the next solution. The second part of the art is focusing on where it is you want to be, instead of getting lost over where you aren’t.

Of course, sometimes these are easier said than done, and we get to accept that too.

Humbly,

Kaye

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