I love irony (probably why JOHN is my favorite book). I've been asked often by friends and students to give an example of irony. I discovered a new one the other day when I read that a summit on global warming was cancelled due to ice. And then, yesterday, I enacted another.
I was reading a book by Paul Tripp and Tim Lane on relationships while driving home from my parents' house. Yes, not a bright decision, but reading in the car is now a habit. As I exit the expressway, I glance up from my book and notice that the light is turning yellow. I decide to try to beat it. I shift the car into second gear and prepare to turn with book still in hand. While making a ferocious left-hand "bat-turn" under the red light, I repeat aloud the last sentence I had read: "God made us rational creatures who make choices based on the way we..." I never finished the sentence. A nearly full pitcher of tea that my mom had just sent home with me, and that I had forgotten about, slides across the floor board, slams against the passenger door and fills the entire right side of my car with sweet tea.
How good it is to be a rational human being on God's good earth!
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