TRASH TRUCK

I read a devotional by D.J. Pollay that really sums Jesus' message up for us and shows us how to live it out in our lives today.

Pollay wrote about the day he was in a taxi and they got cut off by another driver -- he just missed them by inches and Pollay's cabdriver had to slam on brakes to keep from hitting them -- and then, to make things worse, the guy who cut them off started yelling at them like they were the ones at fault

The taxi driver just smiled and waved at the guy like they were best friends -- so Pollay asked him, ‘Why did you just do that? This guy almost ruined your car and sent us to the hospital!’ -- that's when the taxi driver taught him the ‘The Law of the Trash Truck.’

He said a lot of people are like trash trucks -- they run around full of garbage -- full of frustration -- full of anger -- and full of disappointment -- As their garbage piles up, they need a place to dump it -- and sometimes they dump it on you

Don’t take it personally, he said -- Just smile, wave, wish them well, and move on -- don’t take their garbage and spread it to other people at work, at home, or on the streets.

The bottom line is that successful people do not let trash trucks take over their day

When this happens to you -- and it will -- just say to yourself, "Trash truck!" -- and let it go -- "Life’s too short to wake up in the morning with regrets"