Rebuilding

Over this weekend I took the time to repair my wife's truck. The head gasket was leaking and the truck was giving signs that it just wasn't going to work much longer if the proper attention was not paid to its needs. So I got out my tools and things and set to work on rebuilding the parts that needed to be repaired. Well In the midst's of lots of grease both from the car and my elbows, it occurred to the problems that this truck was experiencing was a lot like the experience of many others in this world. See things in our lives do not need a complicated reason to go wrong, but sometimes even the smallest of problems left unchecked for years can become much larger than they need to be. But no matter the problem with the right tools and just the right amount of work, well that can make all the difference in the world in how things run and the options available to us in the future.

And one other thing came to mind while I was working so fervently. Over the years a lot of people have given me really good advice about working on cars. I heard each and everyone of them in one moment or another while i was working. And I just wanted to say thank you for your valuable words of wisdom even when you thought I wasn't, I was listening and it really paid off for me. Some times the best advice comes from the most unlikely places and people. The best thing about advice is that if you really listen you can hear the voice of experience in every syllable of the person giving it, and you know they had to have made a mistake some where along the way that taught them about what they are telling you. Experience is how we all learn, even if we weren't the person that made the mistake and learned how to do things in a way that really worked well. After all we all have a light bulb or two in our houses today, and we never had to learn how to make one, Thomas Edison made over 250 mistakes before he made a light bulb that worked. So that we all could see our way through the darkness that held us back from achieving so many things previously thought impossible.