Hanging in the Balance: Values & Ideals

Ten minutes before some teens ran a red light, I put my safety belt on. My car, now on its passenger side, I hung held only by the safety belt. At that moment, I thought about all of the experiences I didn’t choose. Regret filled my heart. I had lived two decades either striving to live as an ideal Jehovah’s Witness (replicating their values for my own) or I had wholehearted and bawdy fun as a ‘worldly’ person. Ideally, I would have liked to live in both worlds---one of rules and ‘higher’ pursuits of sacrifice and community---the other of individual freedom and desire. I could not. This car accident showed me in real time and space that a choice had to be made. Somehow my soul knew---and seemingly arranged the dramatic physical breakthrough.

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