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09/17/07
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Everyone that works a normal job knows it can get down right stressful at times. I have always enjoyed listening to people speak of how hard their eight hour job can be. How difficult it is to get up at 6:30 a.m. and get themselves ready for work. Then they have to be there by 9:00 a.m., only to get off at 11:00 a.m. or so to have that half hour or maybe hour lunch, then return to slave away the rest of the day until 5:00 p.m.

I listen to all of this with such amazement. Not because I think it is a terrible thing they all say but because I think it is hilarious. Poor little things, I say to my self. I wish they had my job; I would love to see their reactions. I, along with about 750,000 or so other people in this country, am a truck driver. That's right, I'm one of those uneducated, inarticulate, self centered disgraces that get in your way when you are rushing off to get to the office by 9:00 a.m. Oh yeah, I’m also that big truck behind you trying to get around you to meet a deadline my customer has given me while you are talking on your cell phone, fixing your hair, or putting on your makeup.
I know I am the most well liked and respected guy on the highway because most of you always like to tell me or actually show me that I am number one. I am also the most recognized fellow out there, after all I must be because so many of you love to stare at me through those squinted eyes as you are showing me or telling me that I am number one.

Now believe it or not, I used to get really upset at you for doing all these things to me and I would usually return the compliments that you showered me with but only two fold. One day, I heard a voice in my head tell me I needed to stop this and calm down or I was going to get really sick, maybe even die. I could all ready tell I was getting ill from doing this and putting up with the causes of my bad attitudes. After thinking about this for some time, I went to my Bible and opened it to see just what God said about all of this. There it was staring me directly in the face, all my answers just poured out in front of me. Everything I needed to know, from controlling my anger to being tolerant of others. I knew then, I could not be this way anymore. God would look pleasingly upon me if I would become calm and learn to love my fellowman as He loved me.
I took my problem to the Lord in prayer and I have learned to control my reactions to others now. The Lord and I talk on a daily basis now and I have found that I am more at peace with myself. There are still some folks that just really try to push that one button that could set me off but I place my faith in the Lord now, and I have found out He and I make a great team.

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