Day 34
Actually, it was, in fact, watching a car wreck.
Yesterday, a little before one p.m., I’m crossing in the middle of 16th St. (Jaywalking, yes. Bad Katie. Bad, bad Katie.) and I hear that awful screech of tires. Not close to me, so don’t be worrying. Down the road about 150 feet at the intersection of 16th and Clybourn. I turn my head just in time to see a red car plow into a blue car and the two cars go spinning and sliding to a rest right at the sidewalk corner. I automatically start running down the sidewalk toward the accident, but stop, realizing that A.) I don’t know CPR, B.) I don’t have my cell phone, C.) There are a dozen people closer to the scene than I am, including a public safety officer barking into his walkie-talkie.
So I save my heroics (ha) for another day. I talk to the officer a little later, and he said everyone is ok. The cars are totalled – the bumper from Red Car is still out on the sidewalk at 10:30 pm when we drive home from church.
One time when I was at college in Chicago, I saw a smaller accident from the rooftop of my dorm overlooking LaSalle. Me and my friends were hanging out, arms slung over the old chain-link fence, watching the traffic, enjoying our skyline, shootin’ the breeze, when we saw a moving car smack into a parked car (as opposed to seeing the parked car smack into the moving car). This being Chicago (I suppose), the driver of Moving Car appeared to take a moment, regain control, and then kept on a-moving down the boulevard.
I’m not entirely certain that this is the way these things are supposed to go. I am pretty sure, however that the owner of Parked Car was none too happy with the whole episode.
Onward.
I’ve just started “reading” a book called A Meaningful World by Benjamin Wiker and Jonathan Witt. I say “reading” because it is one of those esoteric books that I find intimidating and difficult to follow, yet at the same time fascinating and irresistable. The arguments are hard to be understood, but they are worthwhile.
As it’s title suggests, this book is out to show that the world is not just a jumble of meaningless particles that were produced randomly in the primordial stew. It explores everything from Shakespeare to chemistry and shows the meaningfulness of the natural world. An early quote:
“Against the materialist attempts to reduce biology to chemistry, we find instead that the latest science is uncovering more a more evidence that the elements are strangely fit for biology, the lifeless fashioned for the living.” (p.27) That’s a pretty amazing thought. Hey, could this be because there is a Creator?
Indeed!
P.S. Happy Flag Day. Or as they say in my part of the country, “Flayg Day”.
Made for Eternity 