Cruise Night

CRUISE NIGHT

When I was a teenager, we had cruise night every Friday and Saturday nights–when we drug Main, Main Street, that is.

 We went around the circle drive at Trails Inn drive-in, then back down Main to the post office where we did a U-turn, then back to Trails Inn again. Sometimes we stopped for a pop at Trails Inn, then up and down Main again.

 There were usually 3 other girls in my car with me–my sister Frances, next door neighbor Velta, and good friend Sandy. When the car was  getting low on gas, everyone dug around in their purse for spare change and we asked the gas-station attendant for 50 cents worth of gas, about 2 or 3  gallons.

 When it appeared my old car wouldn’t make it from one end of Main to the other, we would “lay hands on” my old worn out ’53 Chevy and pray for it.

 Some people refer to those days as the “good old days.” Gas 19 cents a gallon. Small-town fun. It is easy to look back and feel nostalgic about the past. We idealize it and remember only the good things, but those were hard days too.

 We are living in the “good old days” now. I wouldn’t want to go back those days. I love driving a vehicle with power steering, power brakes, automatic transmission, that starts every time.

 In Isaiah 43:18-19, the Lord says, “Do not remember the former things, nor consider the things of old. Behold, I will do a new thing, now it shall spring forth; shall you not know it? I will even make a road in the wilderness and rivers in the desert.”

 Are you still lingering in the past, wishing for things that can’t return? Let it go. You can remember those days fondly, but don’t try to relive them, except maybe one day a year, like we do at the Annual Car Show and Cruise Night in Vinita, Ok.

What is the new things that God is doing in your life?

Lavon Hightower Lewis