I wish we'd all been ready...

Back in May, I blogged and included an article about a motorcycle accident that occured as I was trying to get home from a day at the lake.

Well, yesterday as I walked into work with my co-worker, she mentioned she remembered my sharing with her about the accident. She had spent the weekend with some girlfriends and one of the women's daughter's boyfriend was the victim of the accident. Well, he actually died when his bike went off the road.

How sad.

What is the point of drinking and getting behind the wheel? I mean, even in my own drinking days of the past, I knew better than to get behind the wheel, no matter how drunk I got. I knew better. True, alcohol can really be a big mess with your brain, and impair your judgment. I know it varies with certain people, and how they can handle their drinking or not.

Life is truly short. Let's not be careless.

The other week, I had been asked to do a solo for my church. Well, because of my daughter's accident with her bike and the van that hit her, I was unable to perform the song. But someone was generous to sub for me.

"I Wish We'd All Been Ready" was written in 1969, by Larry Norman.

Life was filled with guns and war
And all of us got trampled on the floor
I wish we'd all been ready
Children died the days grew cold
A piece of bread could buy a bag of gold
I wish we'd all been ready

There's no time to change your mind
The Son has come and you've been left behind

A man and wife asleep in bed
She hears a noise and turns her head he's gone
I wish we'd all been ready
Two men walking up a hill
One disappears and one's left standing still
I wish we'd all been ready

There's no time to change your mind
The Son has come and you've been left behind

Children died the days grew cold
A piece of bread could buy a bag of gold
I wish we'd all been ready

There's no time to change your mind
The Son has come and you've been left behind

The Father spoke the demons died
How could you have been so blind

There's no time to change your mind
The Son has come and you've been left behind

I hope we'll all be ready you've been left behind
I hope we'll all be ready you've been left behind
I hope we'll all be ready you've been left behind