Parking lot doctrine

A couple more thoughts on my $75 parking lesson . . .

Ignorance is no excuse. Although someone may well be sympathetic when a person unknowingly violates the rules/law, this is not an adequate defense for breaking it. My lack of information and attentiveness to the details of how downtown parking works may be lamentable, but it is not sufficient to get me off the hook. Even the fact that I once paid $10 to park legally doesn't suffice to alleviate the burden of the boot. Which brings me to the second thing . . .

I believed in "once parked always parked," but unless the owner of the lot shares that belief, my belief is inconsequential. No matter how legally and appropriately parked I was, I could not come back in without cost. Re-entry was going to involve another process that would be costly. Isn't it ironic how some things seem so obvious at a theological level, but we struggle to grasp them in life? Perhaps the reverse is more common, where we understand these truths in life, but fail to integrate them into our theology. But in either case, there is little doubt in my mind that God shows His children truth if they are willing to seek it.