Thursday, February 6, 2014

"Expect the Unexpected" as they say...

I think this counts as my first car accident. That is, if you can really call it that.

Early Monday morning, I was coming off of the highway onto an unfamiliar road and it happened to be raining really hard. I was turning and I had to stomp on my breaks for something happening ahead, and all of a sudden my car lost its grip on the road and spun out of control. They say you're supposed to turn with it so I thought I did but I wound up spinning in the other direction.

It's unexpected events like this that make me stop and look at everything around me. Last Sunday I was sitting in church listening to the pastor read Ephesians, came home and made cookies, watched movies and was thinking about how joyous the day was. Needless to say, I didn't see this coming. I imagine nobody ever does.

When I looked to my left and saw 4 lanes of oncoming traffic and looked to my right and saw cars speeding off the highway towards my out of control car, a question crossed my mind that on any other day would be so far fetched: "Am I going to die?" I really thought I was. I couldn't find a way to avoid the oncoming cars but I still did (I'm sure I had an angel's help) and my car and I came out untouched….even though I landed in a ditch.

Though that ditch that God directed my car into evidently saved my life. So I'm just really happy to be here! It makes those feelings of annoyance and anger, that can surface throughout the week from petty things, as significant as a grain of rice.


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