Doing 50 MPH In A Parking Lot

Imagine yourself in a car...
Doing 50 MPH in a parking lot...
A parking lot with many parked cars you want to avoid hitting...
You want to slow down...
But the brake seems a bit beyond the reach of your toes...
And the brakes aren't responding well anyway...
Is that a cop car over at the end of the parking lot?

Does this scene seem fun to you?

Not to me either.

And yet variations on this scene are my repeated experience.

At night when I'm dreaming.

It doesn't take the wisdom of Joseph to interpret this dream.

God have mercy on this soul.

Who doesn't want to be a danger to himself.

Or others.

And yet cannot seem to bring his life into safer orbit.

Jesus Christ. Son of God. Have mercy on me.

A sinner.