Premonition

Saturday I had another one of those experiences. I was cleaning out a broken window pane in order to replace it. As I was working with pliers and scraper to remove the broken glass I thought "I need to be careful not to hurt my hands on this glass because I'm playing guitar in church tomorrow." Classic premonition. Of course I didn't take action in relation to the premonition, but simply decided to take caution. I didn't put on gloves or move to better light, but I just told myself "be careful". 30 second later a piece of glass broke as I was pulling it out of the frame and my thumb got raked over a shard - requiring 6 stitches. Not because I wasn't careful, but because I hadn't transitioned passive concern to active protection. Needless to say I didn't play guitar in church on Sunday. This is a repeated theme in my life. It is not enough to simply think about being careful, I've got to take action when faced with such premonition. And that is my proverb for the day.