Not My Own

A few weeks ago my husband and I took the kids on a family outing to the Reptile Zoo in Ann Arbor. After parking the car in a fairly spacious parking lot, we sat there for a few minutes talking and eating. Suddenly, we heard a BAM and jerked forward. Thankfully, we were all still buckled in. Some guy backed into us with his fancy mustang denting our back door. We were annoyed and confused as to how he managed to back into us in such a large and unattended parking lot.  We tried to be nice since obviously the guy was very embarrassed. After a repeated apology, I told him not to worry about it because it's just life and this stuff happens. It's easy to get prideful in situations we don't understand how someone could possibly screw up. It's easy to think we know better or we would have done something differently. The truth is... we are human in desperate need of grace from one another. Yesterday, I saw great strides in my marriage all because we made a series of stupid