Keith just called me into the den to watch a TV clip from the Houston morning news. He’d paused it on the screen so I could really take it in. It seems that an eighteen wheeler carrying “animal entrails” overturned under one of our major freeways. 4000 gallons spilled all over the road causing a considerable traffic jam. Not only am I praying for the truckdriver’s well-being (he does not appear to be in serious condition, praise God), I am praying for him to get a new job. You just never know what kind of load people are carrying.
You’ll be glad to know that we have another post coming quickly so you don’t have to deal with this one for long.
I love you.
Hopefully God’s Glory will be with the people who are stuck in that traffic. I know what road rage looks like in morning traffic in Houston.
Working on A Woman’s Heart and just loving it and you… thank you for all you do for us siestas..
Lichelle
“You just never know what kind of load people are carrying.”…HA! Made me laugh out loud. There’s a great teaching illustration if I ever heard one.
My sister told me that a truck full of double-stuff Oreos had a similar fate. Now THAT is a crash I’d like to drive up on.
Maybe this driver can get promoted up to the Oreo truck. (Can’t imagine what he’d carry if he got demoted.)
THAT is nasty!! But has GREAT spiritual application!! haha!!
Being a native Texan, I know that everything’s bigger and better “deep in the heart” of Texas, but this “bigger” comes from a little “deeper” than I care to know about!
THat is so gross! My husband called me one afternoon to say he would be late coming home from work because a sludge truck had lost its brakes and overturned all over the highway. He had to help clean up the “toxic waste”. EUUWWWW!! ( I have included a definition of sludge for anyone not familiar with that term.)
“Sludge is the residual semi-solid material left from industrial, water treatment, or wastewater treatment processes.
When fresh sewage or wastewater is added to a settling tank, approximately 50% of the suspended solid matter will settle out in about an hour and a half. This collection of solids is known as raw sludge.”
He had to shower outside that night!
🙂
Oh my…do you know how many times I say, “Only in Texas!” I was born, raised and still live here! There is just something “special” about our state you know! 🙂 For one thing-the first SIESTA FIESTA is happening here!! Yee Haw or should I say OLE!
Thanks for a good morning chuckle! 🙂
Beth,
Only in TEXAS!!! I live in the Dallas area and I so get what you are saying (sadly).
Isaac’s Mom
Yes—It seems everyone carries some kind of load. Some days it is heavier and messier than others involving even our own entrails. God is an amazing cleaner-upper.
Amen! I think I’m carrying quite a similar load today. But as I poured (tears that is) over the psalms, praising God in my unrest, I’ve unloaded a bit of the, uh, stuff.
Life is so hard. But God is so good. Thank you Jesus!
Have a glorious day, everyone.
Your sister in Nebraska!
YOU are so funny! I love the light side of this blog spot just as much as the deep thought provoking posts that you leave for us.
I cannot imagine the sight of that.:-) you are so funny. We love you too. Thank you for keeping me real. You keep my heart soft, you teach me to be real, you invite me to love my God passionately, you make me laugh, you make me cry , you make me love my God more than I can stand, you make me hungry for his word and you just plain make me feel loved. Thanks for taking the time to chat with us even if it has to be about animal entrails. Hope your next post has to do with flowers, or puppies or something to help get that picture out of my head. Animal entrails…I can’t imagine. 🙂 May God bless your day.
Oh, Beth, it must be a southern thing. When I was 11 or 12 my little cousin excitedly told me he had just seen the grossest thing ever (please keep in mind we are talking about an 8 year old boy). The same thing you described had occurred near his home, only not on a major highway – but on a tiny, curving country road that goes across the mountain from Tennessee into North Carolina. Much to my disgust he decribed in detail what he had seen. and unfortunately the legend of the ‘gut truck’ (his words, not mine) lives on.
As you said, we just never know what load someone is carrying, but how wonderful to know that when we finally crash, Jesus is their to clean it up if only we will agree to walk away from it.
Amber in TN
Imagine party conversation in years to come…”so when is a time you really spilled your guts…”
Praying that some day he will be able to laugh and thank God that he was not hurt.
Imagine cleaning that up!
I live in Indiana and a week or two ago there was a truck that overturned spilling its load of….Oreos. All I could think of was ‘what a waste’.
LOL
Your are so right You never know what kind of load people are carrying, in a truck or in their own lives.
Becky
Attalla, AL
Yeah. Ew, gross. Suddenly, I’m not hungry anymore. I really shouldn’t have read this first thing in the morning before breakfast and everything!
Dear Beth,
that could happen in Montana too – the difference being it has been sooo cold here this spring it would likely freeze to the road instead of ‘ripening’ as quickly as it will down south! Thanks for the laugh!
Love you and someday I will figure out how to do this and not be anonymous!
Carolyn
Years ago my husband and I were following a dump truck full of the same goop. With every stoplight we held our breath that nothing would slide over the top onto our car. To this day the vision remains one of my best dieting tools!
You’ve lightened my load with a good laugh. Bless you…
Wow. That is gonna stink to high heaven in a few hours.
Yikes – I guess a new job would be a bonus but you are correct. Just had a gal talk with me this morning about things she was carrying around (junk in the trunk if you will) and I was saddened by her troubles but glad she was able to talk. Thanks for the post helping us to remember that their are a lot of issues in a persons heart that we are unaware of and we must take time to be compassionate.
Looking forward to the summer study. God’s Blessings on you and yours.
Kelli in Colorado
Girl! Im so praying!
OH MY WORD!! LOL!!!!!!!!!
Pray not only for the man carrying the load but for the ones who are adding to his load!! L0L! Some jobs are just better at passing on. hahaha
Thanks, I needed that today!
Val
NC
I would stay away from that part of town for..oh…about a month. Lingering animal stink in the hot sun? Yuck.
“I am praying for him to get a new job. You just never know what kind of load people are carrying.
Ah…the second time I read this I caught the underlying meaning. We don’t ever know what is under that spit & polished shiny exterior people show us do we?
I wouldn’t want that job for anything.
Every time I’m in the car with my son and we see the truck hauling the used porta-potties I use it to remind him why it’s important to do well with his studies. “You do not want to be the guy who picks up the used porta-potties.”
Now I have a new one!
You know what they say,”No guts, no glory” I’m sorry I couldn’t resist.
EEEEEEWWWWWWW!!! That is gross…. I have to wonder where the load was going, and what was going to be done with it at it’s destination? Is there someone somewhere who is upset that their cargo of entrails is not going to arrive???
Love you back!
Adrienne
Oh yuck, I just saw it on a Houston TV station over the internet. I do hope that man is OK and that he does get another job! At least he doesn’t have to clean it up, an environmental hazard cleanup crew is doing it for him. Which reminds me…I must add to my earlier post. We all carry toxic baggage until we let God take it from us. He will even be our environmental cleanup crew if we allow him to be! Praise God!
Wow. Who knew someone could laugh and battle intense nausea at the same time?
Beth,
My First Husband use to work for a by-product company here in West Texas, which is what the en-tails are called there. He never spilled his, but the smell never quite got out of the nose. Even though we have not been married for years. I can distinguish that smell very well!
To some it may smell foul, to others it’s the smell of a job.
Thanks,
Sallye
Icky! Slip & Slide on the highway! If I saw it in person I’d become a vegetarian.
We love ya too!
And even though I’m doing 2 Bible studies this summer, my curiosity is piqued so now I’m going to have to go get that Minter book too. Thanking God my hubby doesn’t flinch when we add up the “Stef’s Books” category in the budget.
Stefani
Not ONLY in Texas! I live in Louisiana and a couple of months ago a guest speaker was late to a meeting and said it was because of chicken fat on the highway — and we thought he was joking!!! Turns out, a truck loaded with, yes, chicken fat, overturned. Who knew they even hauled that kind of stuff around? Talk about never knowing what kind of load people are carrying! Thanks for the giggle!
ew bless him!!
so the question becomes, what type of hazmat crew do they call in for the cleanup?
a reminder to be thankful i have the job i do, because someone will have to clean it up who likely does it for the paycheck, not the enjoyment.
there is definitely a great teaching illustration in that story, though! you do never know what kind of load someone has to carry!
thanks for the laugh. it’s a rainy morning here in southwest virginia, and my mood needed a good belly laugh.
Makes my day seem not so bad!!! Think of the poor crew who has to deal with the cleanup–YUCK!
AMEN to a new job for this poor man. I will say a prayer for him today!
I know that my day will be better than his despite its beginning! Thank you Lord for a job that does not stink!
love to you,
Marci
Oh Beth…
I was just thinking yesterday while I was driving in the car how funny it is that when I see a dead carcus in the road I shut my eyes — steering wheel in hand and everything! I can’t even imagine coming up on 4000 gallons of…
I can’t even think about it!
Uh, thanks for sharing??? 🙂
Blessings,
Dori
Being a Texas girl as well, I totally went to “Which freeway?” “Poor man..”, to “EWWW GROSS! for the clean up crew”! Truly… only in Texas do the best and biggest things happen!
I sure do love you too!
I thanked the Lord the driver was alright and thanked him I no longer commuted from Richmond to Houston to work.
We have dramatic traffic, don’t we…
Bless his heart!! I think there may be a teaching illustration here and I may have to use it one day.
Love You,
Patty
Oh, poor clean up crew
three things:
1. I had to check refdesk.com to see what an ‘entrail’ was 🙂
2. Praise God someone is willing to drive them somewhere!!
3. I love how you can turn anything into an application!!!
You are loved!
YUCK! My husband drives truck, but am pleased to say that he has never hauled anything that gross. He currently hauls fuel; not too messy, even though it is a bit explosive! I am with you on praying for a new job for that man!
Noseclip sales should be booming about now in Houston.
It’s one thing to be the guy driving that stuff around but I think I’d rather be him than the one who has to handle them once they come off the truck. Or the poor folks who had to do all that clean-up. Hope they had oxygen masks. Nasty.
Where’s that guy from the show Dirty Jobs?
Oh my goodness!!
I am so glad that the driver was ok!
BTW: what in the world are animal entrails? Do I even want to know – hehe
Kim
ok, um …. ew
Oh my goodness! What a start of the day! …didn’t get to post the other day, but I really appreciated the reminder to “plan” bible study time this summer. You’re absolutely right, it’s a whole different ball game. Thanks for the encouragement!
Beth,
Don’t miss the opportunity to apply this! This will “teach” even better than the “plastic fruit”…maybe as well as “flossing the skin out of our teeth” from “backbiting” one another!
I loved that application!
My husband was helping move our daughter across country to CA and got stuck in a traffic jam in TN for hours! An overturned 18 wheeler carrying tampons spilled all over the road!
I have no idea how that one would teach, but I’m sure you could figure it out 🙂
Love and prayers,
T