Welcome to 10 minute Bible Talks.

Where we connect the Bible to your life and the time it takes to get to work.

I'm Tanya Wilmoth and right now we're in the book of Exodus.

My working title for today's episode was, why is God making my life so hard? I don't think I

actually say that precisely in that way, but I do have thoughts that sound like this. I just need one day without interruptions. Or I could just use a week where I can get enough things done, enough sleep, have time to eat, and God willing even have some gas left in the tank to actually connect with the people that live here in my house.

I got this pretty cool view of humanity this

morning when I was driving in town and I witnessed a three-car slow-speed pile up on the

road next to our busy high school. As we all slowed to a crawl and eventually a stop to wait for the

cars to clear, the person in the front of the accident who got hit by two other

cars got out and ran to the car behind him to check on that person and then that

woman got out of her car and they ran together to the

young girl at the rear of the accident to check on her. She was really upset. I could see her

shoulder shaking like she was crying when she got out and then the first two drivers put their arms around her and

consoled her. I didn't see any of them looking at their cars or pointing fingers, at least not at first,

just consoling and caring for one another.

And for sure, none of them had this planned for their morning.

And I'm doubtful any of them had time for it if we looked at their work or their school,

their personal calendars.

But nonetheless, this is where their day and how their day ended up.

On our very best days, we are compassionate, caring, slow to anger people.

On our worst days, especially those that are

going to go as planned, we can be irritable and easily triggered and

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