I’ll admit I’m not much of a NASCAR fan. I’m not against it either, I just don’t watch much and am certainly not addicted. On Sunday, February 20th, 2011, my family and I went out to eat lunch at a restaurant where we play trivia and the Daytona 500 race was plastered over many of the screens there. It was a pretty exciting race and I started watching between trivia questions. . We left to go home and I went downstairs and started watching the race again. I could hear the announcers now too. Before long they narated the story of Trevor Bayne, a rookie driver, who had turned 20 years old the day before. I have a habit of rooting for underdogs in sporting events and so I started cheering for Trevor perhaps about half way through the race. I am sure many of you now know that Trevor went on to win the race in incredibly exciting fashion, but that’s not I want to tell you about. The next day as I checked the news, I came across this article “Daytona 500 Winner’s Race for Faith“. In brief, Trevor Bayne is going to contribute part of his earnings to a Christian charity that does mission work serving orphans in Mexico.
Trevor Bayne worked hard to win the Daytona 500 a few days back but his best work that day was to stand up and testify to his belief in God. As you know I believe telling our stories of faith is what we should be doing. This song came to me a few days later as I rode the bus to work one morning. It is dedicated to Trevor Bayne. I hope that fame and success are never able to overcome his devotion to doing God’s work. If a NASCAR race driver can take the time to stand up and testify to God’s work in his life on the best day of his life, can’t we all find a way to do so in our daily lives?
Thanks for listening, John
From the back seat of the bus today
I watched a young man make his way
Down the sheet of music he was writing
I couldn’t hear what he clearly heard
Don’t even think the song had words
But it was obvious that he could hear the music
The talents and gifts that God gives us all
Are special and unique, we must answer his call
To use them for the good of all of creation
To make a better place for the whole human race,
Use your talents and gifts
As I watched the news of the NASCAR race
And saw excitement on the face
Of Trevor Bayne who had just won at Daytona
I was so amazed when I heard him say
To the whole wide world, on his special day
He would use some of the prize to do God’s bidding
The talents and gifts that God gives us all
Are special and unique, we must answer his call
To use them for the good of all of creation
To make a better place for the whole human race,
Use your talents and gifts
How will you use your gifts today?
Please see if you can find a way
To make the world improve a bit for someone
You prob’ly won’t need to look too far
To find out where the real needs are
If you’ll only try to see the things God shows you
The talents and gifts that God gives us all
Are special and unique, we must answer his call
To use them for the good of all of creation
To make a better place for the whole human race,
Use your talents and gifts
Copyright 2011 John Lage, Jr. All rights reserved
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