The Boy Who Wanted to Watch | Roadside Notes — A Faith and Good Courage Journal Reading | Ep51

Roadside Notes · Aug 27, 2026 · 6m

The Boy Who Wanted to Watch wasn't causing trouble. He just wanted to see everything. The lifts going up. The air guns spinning lug nuts off. The machines that balanced the tires. Jacob was seven years old and the whole place was a laboratory and nobody had told him yet that he was supposed to sit still and look at a screen.

I was only supposed to be there five minutes. Tire pressure check on my way through Kingman. In and out. Back on the road. That was the plan until I walked into the waiting area and saw a young woman trying to hold herself together while simultaneously trying to keep a…