Life Is Short

So I am driving down the freeway yesterday, on the 215/15 split, on the motorcycle and I was also splitting traffic. About fifty yards ahead of me there was another motorcycle, and he too, was splitting traffic. All of a sudden, out of nowhere, a blue Saturn hit the guy on the motorcycle, he went high side, which is what happens when the bike instead of laying down and sliding, it pretty much catapults you into the air. You never want to have to go high side, you would prefer to lay it down and slide with the bike so you have some semblance of protection.

Well he flew off the bike, and since the laws of physics demand it, the bike will follow the same trajectory as you do, and that's what happened, and when he hit the ground, the bike landed on top of him. Thankfully he wasn't seriously injured and he walked away. But since yesterday that is all I can think about. I guess you could say I pretty much got spooked, and if I had a car to drive, I would have made my 130 mile round trip commute in a car, instead of a bike.

Now to bring this back to scripture, I was sitting somewhere quiet at work, and pulled out my phone and turned on my Bible app, and I was last reading a scripture from Psalms from a sermon at church, and decided to keep on reading into the next chapter of Psalms 39 and then stopped at verse 5 in the Amplified version, it says, "Behold, You have made my days as [short as] handbreadths, and my lifetime is as nothing in Your sight. Truly every man at his best is merely a breath! Selah [pause, and think calmly of that]!"

And I did, sit for a while, pause, and think calmly of just that.