License plates don’t have much room for a message, but I always find something to say with my personalized plates. I got my first one as a senior in high school: RAD RU. No, RAD wasn’t a slang term for cool. The letters were an abbreviation of my last and first names.
When I married and had children my plate read MNVNHVN for Minivan Heaven. That message stayed with me until 2005, when I started my own business. It was called Room Sweet Room—or RMSWTRM on my license plate.
Long hours at work kept me away from my family too much. So I closed up shop. My new plates read JAKE ♥ RA for my kids, Jake and Rachel.
I’d always used my license plates to say something about myself. But a few years ago, after I was diagnosed with cancer, I wanted my plates to say something to others as well.
If there was one thing my illness taught me, it was that we should always appreciate the things God has given us in our lives, and find ways to share those blessings with others.
That might sound like a lot to fit on a license plate, but luckily by now I have practice being concise. My new plates read: UZURGFT. That’s Use Your Gift in license-plate speak.
If something as small as a license plate can be used to good purpose, just imagine what we can do with the talents and blessings God gives us. That’s a message I’m proud to carry wherever I go.
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