Driving in Honduras is crazy, to say the least! You beep your horn and take off. Often 3, sometimes 4, vehicles make moves in opposite directions in just 2 lanes. I pray a lot more when I’m on the road in Honduras.
Death on Honduran roads is common. Last week we were stopped in traffic for quite awhile. Then we crept along, finally coming up a scene that still disturbs me. It was the remains of a motorcycle that had hit a car head on. The body had been removed, but streams of blood were fresh upon the pavement.
I wondered about the young man who died. Where was he going? What were his plans for the day? Who was waiting for him? He died on the road that morning, and I’m certain that was not his intention or his plan for day.
It reminds me of the uncertainty of life and of its fragile nature. James says it well (4:13-15):
Now listen, you who say, "Today or tomorrow we will go to this or that city, spend a year there, carry on business and make money." Why, you do not even know what will happen tomorrow. What is your life? You are a mist that appears for a little while and then vanishes. Instead, you ought to say, "If it is the Lord’s will, we will live and do this or that."
How are you planning for today?
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