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Share the Road

I see them everywhere…bumper stickers with a picture of a motorcycle and the reminder to “Share the Road.” Just because a vehicle has two wheels instead of four, looks a little different, is perhaps smaller than our own, doesn’t mean we, in our four-door sedans, SUVs or minivans, have a greater right to the roadway. I saw one of those bumper stickers on the way to church the other night, and realized how much that phrase serves as a reminder to members of the faith community. Share the road. There is a vast array of faith expressions in Southern Utah these days. There are little two-wheeler churches just trying to get down the road safely. There are big SUV churches with well-financed programs and facilities. There are the minivan churches – family friendly and safe as they can be. There are hot-rod churches with flames painted up the side, and hard-scrabble, hard-working churches like my grandpa’s old Chevy truck. Each person, joined with others of like faith, is traveling in a simil