Following Jesus or Just Speeding?

Leaving the grocery store last week, a car pulled out between our car and another vehicle going the opposite direction, nearly causing a three-way collision. We followed behind the offending car toward the stop sign where the parking lot tees into the feeder road for the highway.

The driver ran the stop sign.

We stopped and waited for traffic to clear, then pulled into the lefthand turn lane behind this same car. As we came to a stop, my husband said, “Look,” and pointed toward a decal on the vehicle’s back window that read, “Are you following Jesus this closely?”

Of course, when we the signal turned green, this car shot out into the intersection like a Pharisee chasing the temple money. The driver sped away so fast I doubt anyone could have followed her anymore closely than she was following Jesus herself.

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Susan Clark Lawson

As journalist, business communicator, entrepreneur and teacher, Susan’s writing has appeared in a variety of newspapers, magazines, literary journals and coffee table books. Her creativity has been the anonymous force behind scores of brochures, newsletters, logos, annual reports and flyers.

As a high school publications adviser, her yearbooks won top national awards from both the National Scholastic Press Association and the Columbia Scholastic Press Association.

As a business communicator, she supervised employee publications for a Fortune 500 electric utility and eventually started her own successful writing and design business, WildCat Communications.

She earned accredited business communicator (ABC) status from the International Association of Business Communicators, for which she served as an international executive board member, tri-state district director and Indianapolis chapter president, among other roles. IABC International named Indianapolis Midsized Chapter of the Year for 1996, the year Susan was its president, and in 1998, the chapter reciprocated by naming Susan its Communicator of the Year.

In 2005 she trained with Amherst Writers & Artists and since then has led hundreds of supportive, generative creative-writing workshops, both in person and virtually, through libraries and in her home, employing AWA methods.

Now (mostly) retired, Susan lives with her husband of more than 35 years and their two sassy cats in a light-filled brick house on a quiet lake in Indiana, where all enjoy watching the wildlife. She’s an active volunteer with the local Purdue Extension Service and an Advanced Master Gardener.


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