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Life Lessons
The Beginner’s Guide to Locking Your Keys in Your Vehicle
With practice, you too can achieve greatness
Example one: I’m near Columbus, Mississippi auditioning for a preaching job.
I stop at a gas station just a mile or so from the church building where the audition was to occur.
You may be surprised to hear the word “audition” associated with interviewing for a preaching job. My experience is that folks are interested in hiring you only if you sound good not if, you know, you are concerned for ministering to people. But I digress.
It was winter and cold, even for Mississippi. I got out of the truck, spun around, and the door shut. This was not part of the audition.
A feeling somewhere down in the far reaches of my stomach told me that the keys that would have normally accompanied my hand on the way from the ignition to my pocket lay, not in my then empty hands, but still in the ignition.
I had locked the keys in my truck. The engine was still running.
I started doing what any sane person about to audition for a preaching job, cursing at the top of my lungs.
OK, I didn’t.
