Electric Cars Need Gas?

I believe every moment could be a life learning lesson.  Yes, even the bad, embarrassing ones.  On this particular Sunday afternoon, God made sure I learned a couple of lessons that are probably going to be a sermon illustration very shortly!  Below, I wrote 2 sections: 1) The Epic Story & 2) the Learning Lesson.  Go head and skip the story if you want to glean the golden nuggets of wisdom God wanted to teach me.

THE EPIC STORY: ELECTRIC CARS NEED GAS

On this particular Sunday afternoon, it was Daddy and Khoi time.  We had finished an especially long weekend at church filled with festivities.  My 6-year old son and I were heading home for lunch and a nap.  And then it happened…

 

I had been driving my electric-hybrid car all weekend on “EMPTY”.  Subconsicusly, I wanted to know how long can a hybrid go with the blinking “E” light.  Ok, maybe not.  Half-way home, I lost power to the gas pedal.  Uh oh… I think I can coast this one to the closest gas station.  Then, I had to stop at the red light with cars behind me and of course the there was no more power to the gas pedal.  Cars were honking, and Khoi was asking, “Daddy, why aren’t we going?”  I already know what my wife would have said, “Why didn’t you fill up when you had the chance?  Why do you run it down all the way….”

Next, I did what every other man would do when he runs into a problem.  Just turn it off, and start it up again!  As if this solution fixed every IT tech support problem with modems, routers, DirecTV boxes, and laptop computer issues.  YES, the car switched over to the battery, and I was able to move again out of the ensuing cars coming at me in the intersection.  But luck doesn’t run in my family, and the car lost power again as I was costing into the next turn into a parking lot.