If I were to put trusting others on a spectrum, I would probably be close to the left-hand side of the spectrum (low to no trust). That is, with people I don’t know.
Sure, most people might say the same thing, but I am especially suspicious. In the back of my mind, I believe that somehow, some way, I am going to get taken for a ride if I’m not especially vigilant.
As I mentioned a couple of weeks ago, we had made it through the used car buying process. This, however, was immediately followed by the “getting the car to my son in AZ” process. We lived in IL.
Here I go again… having to trust people I don’t know. =)
I researched, was quoted to death, but finally landed on someone that I thought we could take a chance on. It turned out, the company we went with is a broker that hires drivers. Okay, I thought. But in our case, the company we hired, hired a third party, who ended up finding another driver to transport the car.
But that driver wasn’t the driver who came to pick up the car. It was “Andrew” who said he might not be the driver to actually transport the car. He was just picking up the car.
If you’re following along, that is a driver, for a driver, for a driver, of a driving company.
I think you would even be suspicious at this point.
It played over in my mind like it was a scene from a movie where the officers come to your home to get an account of your car being stolen, and you have to admit you just let a guy named “Andrew” load it on a truck and drive away.
But it worked! The car was delivered early, and in the condition it was received.
God uses situations like these not to necessarily move me down the spectrum toward the right (of trusting people more), but rather, to move me toward whom I should trust, regardless of the circumstances or the outcomes.
Thanks for joining me on the journey!
Scott