Drinking & Driving ?

Drinking & Driving
Is it worth it ?

Lets try and sum up whether drinking and driving is really worth it.
What happens to us when we drink?

1)   Our vision becomes blurred, and depending on how many drinks we have had, we may even start to see double and even treble.
2)   Our reactions are dramatically slowed down, causing easy tasks so much more of a challenge.
3)   Our co-ordination goes totally haywire, and what should be a simple easy task, now becomes a difficult exercise.
4)   Our memory becomes sketchy, and time moves along slowly, or so it seems.

This all causes the art of doing normally easy tasks, more difficult and at times very hard and even near to impossible. Lets illustrate this.

A simple task such as walking, now becomes a difficult operation. "Who put that chair in the way?" - No, it was there all the time. Our eyes begins to tell our brain that it is there. Our brain now tells our legs to move around it, but due to the drastic slowing down process of our reactions, oops, we are too slow and late and we collide into the chair.
Rather a simple illustration, but now let's take this same illustration and place us behind a cars steering wheel.
The road becomes the path we were walking. The on coming traffic becomes the chair. Due to the slowness of our brains reactions and the motive functions slowing down, the road becomes narrower and the on coming traffic seems further away. Our slowed down reactions causes a disaster. And many times the disaster could be fatal, but sometimes the disaster could cause serious injury to ourselves, others and our families. This is where the pain begins. If we are disabled by this disaster (as in my case), then we have regrets and questions.
What would we feel like if the disaster causes others harm or worse, death?
Could we deal with it? Is drinking and driving worth it? Do you want to take that chance?

In my case, I drank far to much. The memory of driving home is non-existent. The result. Paralysis. I was the lucky one.
Will you be? --- Those months that I lay in hospital, I saw many young lives shattered, and many were due to drinking and driving.
My conclusion. Drinking and driving is just not worth the risk.

The pictures below were taken of my car accident. They are not meant to scare you, but remind you of what could happen, and just how much I have to thank God for sparing my life, and also that no other person was involved.

The front end of the car.

The rear end of the car with wheels severed off.

I hit a tree which split the car in two. The roof was torn off and lying in a tree. The picture on the left is the front section of the car. The picture on the right is the rear end of the car. It was mangled beyond recognition with all four wheels sheared off. The two sections of the car were approximately 50 yards apart. I keep these pictures to remind myself once in a while how good God has been to me. He saved me from sure damnation. Praise His name.

Now I ask the question once more
Is Drinking & Driving
Worth it ?

What does the word of God say about drinking ?

Confuses the mind.
"They are confused by wine, they stagger from strong drink." Isaiah 28:7
Disorderliness.
"But if that evil slave says in his heart; 'My master is not coming from a long time,' and shall begin to beat his fellow slaves and eat and drink with drunkards; the master of that slave will come on a hour which he does not know." Matthew 24:48-50
Hinders watchfulness.
"So then let us not sleep as others do, but let us be alert and sober. For those who sleep do their sleeping at night, and those who get drunk get drunk at night." 1 Thessalonians 5:6-7
"Do not get drunk with wine, for that is dissipation, but be filled with the Spirit." Ephesians 5:18

Links to other drinking & driving sites.

Jack Church's dedication to the loss of his son, Robert

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