I Totally Believe in Dragons

Finals are done, woooo!!!! I have no idea about my future. Well, I have some idea, but as far as classes go, what? So anyways, I didn't really have anything brilliant to post after finals were over, and instead of thinking and trying I decided I'm going to watch endless episodes of What I Like About You (amazing show with Jennie Grath and Amanda Bynes if you haven't heard of it). I have also spent this time chilling with friends and my dad.

So yesterday me and my dad and my stepmom and brothers go to dinner, then get ice cream. And then I'm driving home on this little road and there's a TURTLE in the middle of the road! I dodge him but I see a truck go straight over him and I;m thinking, ohhh no. I have to save that thing. So I do a u-turn and pull over in front of the turtle because it looks like there's a long trail of stuff behind him and I'm thinking, oh geez, he got run over. But when I got closer I realzed that this thing is his tail! so the turtle is about sixten inches across from one side of his shell to the other, and this tail is about a foot long. Okay so, I'm just tsanding on the side of the road looking down at this turtle, who has made it about two feet deep into four lanes of traffic (two going each way) and then this little old couple sees me and pulls over. They also have no idea what to do so now there are three of us standing by the side of the road with a turrtle. The man goes and stands in the middle of the lane the turtle is in so that no one will run him over. That was a start. But me and the lady are just like, what do we do? And then she starts tapping her foot and he runs a little, and let me just say that turtles can BOOK if they have to. So we figured that chasing him worked pretty well and we figured we could do this across the whole road and get him into the embankment. However, turtle decided that at the yellow dividing line of the road, he needed to rethink because these crazy ladies weren't leaving him alone. The one lady nudged his booty with her foot and he starts snapping. He is now giong back the way he came because he is trying to eat us and he won't turn around and go the other way.

At this point, two more cars have pulled over. And the old man goes and gets a walking stick from his car and tries to get the turtle to bite it which sadly does not work. Then we start nudging him on his booty across the street. Picking him up was not an option. He had his little dragon tail whipping around and some fierce snapping happening. Then guy got a two by four out of his truck, which we could use to much more easily slide poor turtle. At this point a cop pulls over to see what we are doing. We explain, he waves, laughs, and drives away then turns around and pulls onto the shoulder in front of us all and just kinda sits there.

We have on elane to go and the sliding isn't working anymore. Poor turtle is out of his mind. So we rolled him. OUt of the lane, into the grass, then slid him across the dirt into the little embankent where the turtle friendly environment is.

All of God's creatures are precious. We should not run them over with our cars. Six other people in this world and a cop agree with me on that. Everyone stops for baby ducks. Most people stop for big turtles. A few people stop for little turtles. And you know, turtles are these timid critters. They don't start snapping and getting anrgy until they are in enough trouble. This turtle totally looked dragon-like. How much do we love dragons? We find them fascinating and beautiful, even though we think of them as fantasy. But this turtle was a little dragon in itself. We have to love the turtles of the world as much as we love the dragons.

Take this to people. Dragon people don't exist. We don't have perfect people in the world who are impossible to kill and are endlessly good. But we have turtles. We have people that are slow to grow and easy to hurt. We have people who need help to get across whatever their four lanes of traffic might be. God loves all the creatures of the world, turtles and dragons alike. And as Christians, CHRIST-like people, it is our duty to do the same. Take this literally and figuratively please. Becase if I'm standing in the road protecting a turtle, I'm not backing down for your SUV.