I had something happen to me the other day that I never seen coming.  I have heard about this kind of stuff and seen it on TV, but I never thought that it would happen to me.  I was in Wal-Mart one Sunday picking up a few things that I would need for the week, and when I came out I noticed that there was a piece of paper on the back of my Jeep.  Not really thinking anything about it at first, I went on putting the things I had into the Jeep.  As I was going to close the read hatch, I looked at the paper and read what it had to say.  The first time I read it, I just read it, not really registering what it said.  A few seconds later, it hit me what I had just read, and then it hit me as to what the paper was covering up.  The paper read....

 

American Atheist Association

 

This person has official been ticketed by the A.A.A. for imposing your beliefs on the local atheists trying to live an independent life without religious shit being shoved down their throats every second.

 

This paper was covering up the icthus (Jesus fish) on the back of my Jeep.  They had taped it over the fish so it couldnt be seen.  When I realized all of this, to be honest, I didnt know what to do, or what to think.  It made me mad the more I thought about it.  I dont understand why anyone would go around and tape something like this to a person's car.  It's just not right.  For one, its vandalism and that is against the law.  These people are violating our freedoms.  If they want to go to some street corner and speak out for what they believe in, then they are more than welcome to, but they shouldnt be going around taping stuff to people's cars.  After the anger passed, and I came back to my senses a day later, I realized some things.  First of all, let me say thank you to whoever taped this on the back of my Jeep.  Yes, thats right, I'm thanking them, and here is why.  As christians, we are not as aware as we should be.  I mean, we put the icthus on the back out of cars, but thats about as far as go.  Ponder on this question, for those of you who have the icthus or some symbol like that on your car, how many times do you look at each day?  How many times do you notice it, or notice if it is even still there?  Sadly, I have to say that up until now, I didn't notice mine all that much.  Yeah, I knew it was there, or at least it was supposed to be there, but its one of those things that we just become unaware of.  I mean just think about how big of witness things like that are.  If you are sitting at a traffic light, or just driving down the road, and the car in front of you has something like that on there, does it not brighten up your day?  Does it not make you stop and think about the small things in life that we take for granted?  Now, every time that I walk out to my Jeep, I look to make sure that the icthus is still there.  Everytime I thank God for allowing me to live in a world where we have the religious freedoms to do as we please.  We are so blessed, and we take so many things for granted.  So, to the local atheists out there, I thank you.  I thank you for making me more aware, and more thankful for this world that I live in.

 

God Bless