Sunday, March 13, 2011  People, Trains and Automobiles    
People are a lot like freight trains.    The other night I had
to hurry while driving home from a friend's house in order to
make curfew. I was making incredible time…until I reached train
tracks. A freight train slowly entered the scene, and I was
forced to stop my car in front of the blinking red lights and
turn my engine off. I waited. And waited. And didn't stop
waiting for what felt like hours. I looked at the train in
disgust; to me it was no more than a nuisance.   As I was
staring at the train though, I started to think. In some ways
freight trains are much like the people in all our lives. We
tend to look at people in context, much like we view the train
as an annoyance, but we never think about what people have had
to overcome to get to the point that they're at. Similarly, a
freight train could have traveled across the entire country to
get to the station that they're currently occupying. The fact is
that we are looking at the train in the