I was in a car wreck last week; it was the first one in more than 25-plus years. I had just picked up our son Jonathon from a golf match, and we were engaged in conversation about how he did. As I was talking to him, my phone went off with a text, and I went from looking at him to looking down at my phone. Yep, you guessed it. A car in front of me stopped, and I couldn’t stop quickly enough!
Well – you know what happened. I hit the car in the rear. Thank God, no one was hurt, and the person in the other car was very understanding. I apologized over and over again to her.
I felt bad all night and the rest of the next day. It made me realize that car accidents are going to happen if you are going to drive. We want to do everything we can to avoid them, but they are going to happen – it’s a part of life.
It caused me to think about life and about leading. If you do something long enough, you’re going to have a few wrecks. But what really matters is how you handle them.
Are you going to handle them responsibly? Honestly? Courageously?
