In
those periods of discouragement and doubt, what most renews your
courage and faith? (Serendipity Bible 10th Anniversary
Edition, page 1354).
While
we all need to be hopeful and to want and expect the best, a lifetime
of experience guides me to one inescapable conclusion—despite the
best that we and others can do, shit happens. In an unsentimental
sense, that’s the reason for the vast and lucrative insurance
industry—people are insuring against that day when shit happens. I
personally believe that we have entered a litigious stage in American
history because people want and have come to expect the
reverse—unrelieved fields of cotton candy. Well friends, this is
not the case—never has and never will be—and I frankly have
sympathy for all those institutions in this environment that daily
assume great risks performing humble service. Yesterday I took my
spanking new car in for service—the fuel gauge was malfunctioning.
When the staff took the car in back to explore the issue, they
inadvertently hit an immovable object and damaged the side-panel of
the car—requiring body work that will not be completed for several
days. They apologetically gave me a rental car until the repairs are
complete. Despite my best efforts I cannot seem to muster much steam
and outrage about the damage. I know they obviously did not want this to happen,
and all were presumably doing their best to serve me when it did. I
can only conclude that in this world for whatever reason shit
sometimes happens and we must (heaven giving us grace and a sense of
irony) accept the fact.
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