I read an article and saw a picture of a Samsung truck. This semi is unique in that it has a camera built in that faces the oncoming traffic. That camera projects onto a screen at the back of the truck so that vehicles behind the truck can tell when it is safe to pass. Boy I wish that was on all the trucks on Route 95 through Idaho, Oregon and Nevada that we travel to California. There’s one lane in each direction and passing at times can be a near-death experience.
I pray for safe travels each time we hit the road between Caldwell and Modesto. It’s 645 miles from our home to our son’s. The trip has everything you might want (or not want) in a trip, long stretches of 2-lane roads, sometimes boringly straight and other times curving through the mountains. It has an 80 MPH highway through Nevada, and a climb up to Donner Summit in California followed by a race – and I mean a race – down the hill. Then of course, there is Highway 99; I won’t even try to describe that!
As I said, I pray each time for safety. I am not sure how I will meet my end, perhaps quietly in my bed some night with my Bible across my chest as my Great Aunt Julie met hers. Perhaps it will be after a lengthy bout with some disease as my father did, or simply seeing my body wear out from old age as my mother’s did. It might even be along a stretch of Route 95 or Highways 80 or 99!
However it comes, I am comforted by Paul’s words to the church at Rome. “If we live, we live for the Lord; and if we die, we die for the Lord. So, whether we live or die, we belong to the Lord.” [Romans 14:8]
It is not just the living or dying part that is important, the crucial part is that we belong to the LORD. When we surrendered our life to Christ Jesus, we came under His divine care. As we live in this world, we live in Him. As we exit this world, we die in Him. And when we enter the next part of life – we belong to Him forevermore. Glory!
