Hallelujah… She’s Baaaaack (standard:humor, 902 words)
Author: Godspenman	Added: Sep 05 2021	Views/Reads: 1083/703	Story vote: 0.00 (0 votes)
I really don’t appreciate what I have until I lose it. This is also true of people. We don’t realize how much a person means to us until they are gone.

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I didn't know how much I really liked that truck until I was driving
this little sissy van. In the truck, I could be myself, but in that 
little van, I could not be myself, that's for sure. 

There's a lot of things I miss in life, but I don't realize how much I
like something until it's gone. I didn't know I liked my truck as much 
as I did. Then when it went to the mechanic's garage for six weeks, I 
realized how important that truck is to me. 

Then this past Tuesday, I got that telephone call I was impatiently
waiting for. The truck was ready, and all I needed to do was come by 
and pick it up. But, of course, that meant I needed to pay the bill for 
the repairs. 

When I hung up the phone, I was really excited. 

The Gracious Mistress of the Parsonage looked at me and said, “Why are
you so excited?” 

I just looked at her and smiled. 

“Oh,” she said with a grin, “your truck is ready.” 

My wife has said many things down the years, but this was the best thing
she's ever said in all of our life together. 

She drove me to get my truck, and as we were traveling, she looked at me
and said, "You really missed your truck, didn't you?" 

I thought of a verse of Scripture along this line. “Look to yourselves,
that we lose not those things which we have wrought, but that we 
receive a full reward” (2 John 1:8). 

I really don't appreciate what I have until I lose it. This is also true
of people. We don't realize how much a person means to us until they 
are gone.


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