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HEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEYYYYYYYYYYY AAAAAAAAAAAALLLLLKKKKIES!
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What a gorgeous day was today! Cool and a clear Texas Blue sky. It just makes one feel blessed to be part of God's world.
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This afternoon as I was driving into town for dinner, a gallery showing, and a speaker meeting at Lambda with my friend Daave, I was behind an SUV. This bumper sticker just seemed to jump out at me as I started to pass. The sticker was blood red with white letters - "A DRUNK DRIVER KILLED BOTH OF OUR DAUGHTERS"! I cannot tell you the impact that had on me. First I had such feelings of deep sorrow for the couple in the SUV. Then I realized how blessed I am that in my 32 years of hard drinking and driving that I never hit anyone nor injured anyone, nor killed anyone. Then my thoughts went to the drunk driver hoping that he/she had gotten sober. Of the hell he/she must be going through. He/she has to live with what he/she did. The consequences of driving and drinking. The arrogance of thinking I am fine, I've only had a few drinks, I am in complete control, IT can't happen to me.
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Then I thought of the TEXAS FLAG and what I have been told the colors represent.
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Blue - For the Deep blue Texas sky.
Red - the bottom color is the running blood from the battle of the ALAMO.
WHITE - the top color - the spirits of those who gave their life for the independence of TEXAS.
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Colors of the Bumper Sticker:
Red - the blood of that couples daughters whom they will never hold again. Never see their accomplishments in life.
WHITE - The spirits of the two daughters representing the thousands of innocent people that have lost their lives to another's battle with the disease of alcoholism..
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This evening I felt a pride of being sober. I felt the blessing of being sober. And I cried for the Couple and their daughters.
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Live SOBER, my friends, enjoy the GIFT.
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Today I am grateful for my Higher Power, GOD; my sobriety; Dolly, my Schnauzer; my sponsor; that one day at a time I am blessed with the Gift of Sobriety.
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Y'all be pretty now, ya heah.
6 comments:
Now, THAT'S what I am talkin' about!
Oh Scott, you always say that.
Wow, that was very moving.
What a beautiful post. I love the way Texans love their State.
Nice Post, Zane!
that kind of bumper sticker always brings up guilt and shame in my gut. It makes me remember how careless I was with my life and the lives of others. I'm so grateful that I don't do that anymore....it could have been me that robbed that family of their children.
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