Darkness and Light

Wow, what an emotional roller coaster this week has been! All I can say is, I will be glad when the weekend finally rolls around. Now I just need to find a race to go to!

There is good news with regard to www.girlsgoneracin.com. Within the next 24-48 hours, we will have re-launched our little enterprise under a new name. As for now, everything will look the same, and you will still be able to find us at either the old address or the new one. When I think about it, all of this may actually be a good thing, because it has really made us sit down and think about what we do and why we do it.

The ordeal has also re-engergized my spirit when it comes to what I believe in. And one of those things is common decency, which is getting more and more difficult to find in our society.

There is not a day that goes by that we are not bombarded by sleaze, whether it is the latest commercial from that no-good burger joint that has nothing to do with selling food, a spam email that pops up when you log in, an advertisement for an adult magazine on the wing of a race car, or a billboard for a "specialty shop." Filth is all around us because we live in a dark and fallen world. There is only One who can save us from that.

You would think this would be the part where I would want to get up on my soapbox and be all preachy, but I'm not going to do that. Suffice it to say that I believe that good will triumph over evil one day, and in a way bigger than any of us can ever imagine.

As for now, it is up to each of us to do what we can to maintain decency and protect ourselves and those we love from the dangers that lurk around us. Watch out for your kids, your spouse and even yourself as you cruise the internet and the interstate. Life will throw garbage your way when you least expect it, like the schrapnel from the tire on the truck in front of me that blew up this morning. You just have to know how to dodge it.