We live in an amazing technological age! We sit and relax with ever-smaller digital players that reproduce anything that can be heard. We walk through our daily lives with Star Trek-ian communicators that all but beam us up. We drive with hand-sized computers that tell us where to turn right or left.
One of those direction finders like the "give-a-give-a-give-a-Garmin" was on my list to get for my wife. Yes, it's a wow-eee, whiz-bang kind of techy gift that has me written all over it, but my reasons for giving it were pure. Well, not pure, but right-hearted. See, I don't drive as much as I used to because of the different medications I'm on for my disability and I have trouble not acting as a backseat driver. They only put one steering wheel in a car and for some reason, yielding control of it is not something that comes naturally for me. I tend to tell my wife what to do, what lane to be in, and so on. I'm not always diplomatic about it. I thought that having a Garmin in the car would get me to shut up and keep me from arguing with my wife.
All that fell down today. My wife and I were discussing what presents we had money left for. The voice of previous experience began to speak to me, saying that if I was really going to get a "mid-ticket" item like a Garmin, I would have to determine if that really was what she wanted. The only way to do so was to "unveil" early. To my surprise, my wife declined, even when I gave her my back-seat driver explanation. She told me that the world has all sorts of shortcuts to work around building trust and relationship. She didn't want to go that way.
Proverbs 19:14 says,
Houses and riches are an inheritance from fathers,
But a prudent wife is from the LORD.
Thank you, God, for such a wise mate as Karen! Slippers and fuzzy socks say much more with much less money. Amazing how she knows where she's going.
We have a TomTom that we call YodaYoda because we have "Yoda" telling us where to go. "Left, you must turn."
While we enjoy our GPS and it is helpful, it is NOT to be fully trusted. No matter what GPS you get if you were trying to go to our house they would all take you to a road that doesn't even exist in order to get you here. It took us awhile to "retrain" Yoda to realize that there was no way were going to make it to town by going the way he recommended.
A winter or two ago a gentleman died after getting his family lost and the car stuck in the snow. He foolishly trusted wholeheartedly in his GPS system.
All that to say, that while a GPS is fun, useful, and even entertaining if you're in the right mood to be on a dead end road when you wanted to be somewhere by a certain time instead, you're wife is very wise indeed. : )
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