Starting a few weeks ago, whenever I turned on my car, the dashboard lit up, warning me that my car key had a low battery.
Each time, I looked at it thinking ‘I’ll get to it soon’.
As soon as I got out of the car, I forgot about it. Until the next time I went to drive.
One morning this week, I decided to go to the park to walk. I got there, parked, did a loop and half and felt quite accomplished.
I got back to the car, pressed the button, and nothing happened. Tried a couple more times, and realized the battery had died. I was able to eventually open the car, but the car wouldn’t start – it needed the battery.
Thankfully, in the moment, I was in a place where I could easily walk to go buy a new battery.
I couldn’t even mad at myself because I knew this was my own fault. I had been given plenty of warnings and ignored it.
How does this relate to us?
How many times do our bodies try to warn us that we need to do something differently?
Are you nearing burnout but you just keep going?
Are you in a situation that you know is not healthy for you, but you keep going anyway?
Like I discovered this week: we’ll get the warnings if we are paying attention, but ultimately the warnings will stop and then we’ll be in a worse off situation than if we’d addressed it in the first place.
Dear Heavenly Father, thank you for these lessons. Thank you that I was in a safe area with easy access to a store when it happened. Help me to be more diligent the next time, having learned my lesson.