HippoChurch

The post title is a take off on the old Steve Martin movie, “My Blue Heaven”. I try to remember that so I can find the humor and strength to press on. So, what is ‘Blurple’? You’re looking at it. It’s my wife’s 1999 Dodge Neon that looks dark blue at night, but unfortunately, more purple-ish during the day. I coined ‘blurple’ to best describe it. Oh, and this picture doesn’t show it well, but it has a nice, big ol’ dent right behind the driver’s door to really set it off from all the other blurple Neons out there.

Well, with our new child my wife inherited my beloved Toyota Land Cruiser. (Nice move, honey, nice move Oh, how I miss my Land Cruiser! I can’t wait to get it back in a few years. But, driving Blurple around the Atlanta area has been a great lesson in humility.

And I hate it! Yep, I don’t like forced humility. I’d rather choose to come down a level or two. So, I think God is really using Blurple to show me things in my heart that He wants to work on. Can you make it fast, Lord?

We are going to replace Blurple soon enough. I don’t have the gumption of those guys in the Junky Car Club. Besides, I’ve hung on to each of my cars longer than 10 years. In some ways, you could call me a supplier to the Junky Car Club ;-). Actually, our mechanic told us Neons don’t usually make it much longer than 100,000 miles and this puppy’s got 130,000 on it, so we know we’re on borrowed time. I remember when my wife and I first started dating. She already had the car, but I’d remind her of the Neon’s original ad campaign with the simplistic “Hi” introducing the car, all cutesy and stuff - the perfect girl car. And now it’s mine… Boy, I’m having fun. Please, please send me your reminders of even girlier cars, you know like a Volkswagen Rabbit Convertible (sorry to all you guys driving one of those).

If you see me rolling around in Blurple, please don’t honk. Just ignore me. Thanks.