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I would like to share an experience that has been unfolding for me during the past few weeks before taking a drivers road test. The weekend before Easter, I returned home from a lovely couple of days with my daughters to find a letter from ICBC that said as of my reading this letter my drivers license was cancelled and I was to immediately sign the letter and mail it back with my license card . I was totally taken aback and upset , the letter said something about all the requirements for taking the Seniors test had not been met. On top of this , after looking at my calendar, I realized I had missed the date for purchasing car insurance and I had been driving for 24 hour without any. This was the Monday evening of our business meeting so I called a fellow member for a ride to church and during the drive I asked him if he could take me to my insurance brokers office first thing in the morning. He graciously, without hesitation, said yes – so at 8:15 last Tuesday we were on the road and I told him about this disturbing ICBC letter — he was reminded of an article he had read about a school girl who had applied for a part in a play and did not receive a call back, so she was dealing with disappointment and envy, feeling someone else must have gotten the part .
But one day after school she was helping out in the music room and the music teacher came in and said he was surprised she hadn’t come for her call back. She had never gotten the call – it had been a mistake and he gave her the call-back on the spot…the outcome was she got a really good role in the play.
So after I got home after paying for my insurance, I called the ICBC office and a very sweet girl spent quiet a bit of time trying to find out what this was all about and it turned out to be a computer glitch that I had not booked my drivers test within 30 days of notification – which I had done. It was a mistake, the event was neither true nor real and really – a lesson to me not to react to error.
However, I too was dealing with discouragement and envy too – discouragement that I was at that place in the material sense of life where I would be required to take a driving test every two years from now on and envy that those younger and not necessarily great drivers did not. So I set about changing my thinking during the week before the test, which was yesterday. I realized this was not about me, this was about loving my neighbor – being careful, “full of care” for the pedestrian, the cyclist, the motorbiker, and fellow drivers on the road.
Yesterday my daughter went with me for the test, another requirement to have someone with you in case you fail and need a ride home and she was very supportive with good spiritual healing ideas. The outcome was I passed – I did not completely overcome anxiety over the whole process but I never doubted that God would not take me right through it . I’m so grateful too for those I came in contact with, the sweet girl at ICBC, a very kind, compassionate road test man, and then my fellow church member and my daughter who were there for me.
Light bulbs guaranteed for 7 years, lasted less than 3 years. The store gave me the phone number to contact, along with the UPC code, and the manufacturer sent me a gift certificate for a replacement set of three..
A month later no gift card received but I still had the original packaging and the phone number to call. 800 555 0050 They will check further into this. So glad I had this WGWT post to give me more specifics on the original call.
A few days later the Gift Card did arrive as promised. Good to have loose ends attended to.
Riding on a city bus in Vancouver opposite to a young mom feeding her 11 month old some banana. I asked how long he had nursed ( “still”), mentioned some economic benefits, If she knew about La Leche League (LLL). She had never gotten around to attending a monthly meeting.. but knew one was coming up in 6 days, and was considering attending. We talked about the challenge of going to group of strangers.I mentioned the rare opportunity of folks who were so child-centred and supportive. She loved getting the nudge, especially when we touched on more of the benefits. I gave her my card and said that Loni was still a LLL leader and would welcome her calls/ questions if she didn’t get to the meeting herself.