Something that always amazes me about about riding a motorcycle is how you can feel the subtle changes in temperature. For example, after rain or as you ride into, and out of, an incline in the road. I really appreciate those changes on a hot day, they can be downright refreshing!
All the years of driving in a car, it's pretty much impossible to have experienced that. In the car, we set the temp and it never changes.
But when you are on the motorcycle, you are so much more connected to the experience. Everything is more vivid. Changes in weather, road conditions, or scenery all become very important when we are on our bikes.
There is a reason we call cars, "cages."
Before I learned to ride, I had heard it was different than being in a car, but I never understood it until I experienced it for myself.
When the Samaritan woman at the well (John 4) ran back to her town and told them all about Jesus, the people came and listened for themselves. They had first heard about Jesus secondhand, but actually seeing and hearing him gave them a very different experience.
They said to the woman, "We no longer believe just because of what you said; now we have heard for ourselves, and we know that this man really is the Savior of the world." John 4:42 (NIV)
It's all about the personal contact, and he is always there, with his hand reached out.
