Life is like an old busted Landcruiser! What?!

As I sat aggravated in my broken down 1972 Land cruiser, stalled and going nowhere in front of my daughters elementary school(of course in the 10 min only pick-up parking), I contemplated my frustration and anger with my sexy busted up bucket of rust 4x4 and my action thereof that reflected my attitude toward the situation. A couple of weeks ago I and my wife had notice unexpectedly that our live where beginning to get extremely busy(yes busy). I am not typically the type of person that gets angry or really frustrated under stress but I was finding that I was of late, and it was noticeably. I found that my attitude and perspective had changed. I was letting little insignificant frustrating events take over my mind and thoughts and spoil the whole day. Why was this happening? why was the rust of my life eating away at the attitude of my heart. All old Land cruisers are rusty buckets on wheels but the worst of them still has this "hell yes!" sweet rig, attitude even though there is rust present. Why is it that we often forget that we are sinners and hypocrites, all Christ follower are. And when we forget we find ourselves overwhelmed by the stress and sin in the world. As the old coil spring seat squeaked I recalled my passed week small group where we discussed hypocrisy, and a conversation I had recently with a friend of mine about realizing how sinful we are. realized that knowing that we are sinners is how God builds us. Knowing that there is stress and that we will fail God and that we can not be the stereotyped perfect christian that so many people think we should be. To me this is relationship with God. Knowing we are loved even though we have rust and that there will be more and that God will build us out of this rust. As I once again turned the key to a silent click, I had to smile knowing that God was building. That I was loved by him even though there was no reason for him to love me. Knowing this my attitude had to change. So is life like and old busted Land cruiser? For a freak like me yes, life with a straight six heart and a max speed of 55mph and someone who loves me no matter how much rust I have.