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MAY-17-08
17:40:3
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Forum: Fireside Chat with Nannette
In His Protective Hands - Part II
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Nannette
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This morning on the way to church, I asked Larry to point out where the accident was. I didn't know. As we got nearer, he put on his blinker and pulled over to the left, onto the median. He pointed at the road. "You can see the black tire marks where your car went squirrelly," he said. Yes, there they were, going back and forth on the edge of the road as I remembered. "Then you can see where it shot out through the grassy ditch and onto the other side." There were four deep ruts from the four tires cutting through the grass in an arc heading southeast then northeast onto the other highway.
"Just ahead is the bridge. The median ends."
There it was. The left shoulder and median ended and there were only great blocks of concrete from the bridge and a big gap between the divided highways, just big enough for my car to fly through and plunge into who knows what below.
If I had pulled onto the left shoulder, it was only a matter of a few yards before my car would have plunged into the concrete blocks of the bridge. What if the brown van still hadn't seen me or heard my horn and didn't move out of the lane? What if I couldn't pull back to the right in time to miss the concrete barriers? What if my car had plunged into that empty hole in the middle?
Instead, an unseen hand had taken control of my car, maybe like a child who plays with his Hotwheels, and guided me across the median, back north and to safety. Perhaps He'd even picked up the semi-truck and decided it would just have to exit sooner than planned today.
When I hear the prayer requests at church for the person who was in a car wreck, or who had a truck fall on them when they were working on it, or a child with Leukemia, or a mother with cancer… the list goes on and on. I think how thankful I am that my life and family are free from these things and how God cares for us and none of these befall us. I read the harrowing experiences in Reader's Digest and thank the Lord for my uneventful life.
Today I can continue to thank the Lord for my protection and my mostly uneventful life. But today He's given me an event to share with others. I know He didn't cause it, but I do know that He interceded. And I'm certain that I'll be taking a more casual approach to getting to and from work. I don't think 8 miles over the speed limit in the fast lane is as important as making sure I get home to my laughing children and my romantic husband.
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MAY-17-08
17:39:25
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Forum: Fireside Chat with Nannette
In His Protective Hands - Part I
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Nannette
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I'm lying in bed listening to the sounds of my daughter's laughter as they play outside. I remember the three beautiful hanging baskets of petunias my husband hung on the front porch the day before. And I think how today could have been much different. Instead of laughter, perhaps sobbing. Instead of a basket of petunias, perhaps flowers of condolences.
Friday morning started much like any. I got dressed, ate breakfast, and headed out to work on 435 South, a 6 lane highway in Kansas City, Kansas, divided by a median. I turned on the radio and while listening to a Christian minister, moved into the fast lane and set my cruise control to 78 miles an hour, 8 miles over the speed limit, because somehow in my mind that's the lucky number where the police will let you get away with speeding.
Only about 5 miles down the highway, a large brown cargo van started pulling quickly into my lane, right beside me, oblivious to my existence. I'd done this before, so it was no big deal. I'd just pull a little to the left onto the shoulder and beep my horn so he'd know I was there. But it wasn't like other times. This time was very different. Instead of pulling casually to the left, my wheel jerked too hard and I lost control. The car swerved too hard to the left onto the grassy median of the two divided highways. Trying to correct it, I turned my wheel right again, but this time I jerked back to the right heading into the traffic again.
"My car is out of control!" I thought. "How can it be out of control? This has never happened before!" I turned the wheel back to the left again, and then had absolutely no control of the car for the next several seconds. I slammed on the brakes, but it kept going. The car had been headed southbound on 435, but now it turned left, crossed the median -- about 30 feet of wet grassy ditch -- swooped down into the ditch and then back up to the other side, now headed north east across north bound rush hour traffic. I could see a string of cars in the fast lane and two semi-trucks in the other two lanes -- all headed toward my car which had a mind of its own and was crossing in front of them all.
My first thought was to brace myself for the sure hit and pictured my car being spun around the highway like a pinball. "There is no way my car is going to make it through this without being destroyed," I thought. Something in me could not imagine that I was in harm's way. I didn't imagine my body being injured, or worse yet, killed. But I was certain the car would be totaled.
Then I thought, "What about these poor innocent people? Crashing into my car? I'm putting them in harm's way. We could all die!"
The next thing I knew the brakes were finally working and I pulled up to a stop in the right hand lane, kind of facing north east a little bit. I felt a feeling of shock and relief that I'd finally come to a stop, but then realized there was still a semi truck heading right at me, and thought "Great, I make it across the highway safely just to be smashed into by a semi truck." I immediately punched the gas and started heading to the right shoulder. "What if the truck is heading to the right shoulder to avoid hitting me?" I thought, "I am certainly going to die."
I looked in my rearview mirror and saw the truck veering off the road to the right. It had taken the exit. I asked myself, "Did he take the exit because he was going to anyway, or did he see this as the only way out to save my life and avoid the sure accident?" But there was no answer. Only me pulling onto the right shoulder. Not just the right shoulder, but far into the grass to the right of the shoulder.
"I'm okay," I thought. I survived. Even my car survived. "I'll just continue on to work now, I thought." The traffic kept going. It was as though none of it happened. No one pulled over to yell at me for my stupidity in risking their life on a Friday morning. Everyone just kept moving as though nothing happened. "I need to talk to someone about this," I thought.
I pulled my cell phone out of my purse and called home. Larry was home, working in the garden, and Lydia was homeschooling. Lydia answered the phone, but the words didn't come out normally. I was panicked and at this point I lost it. I couldn't breathe and I couldn't talk. Only clipped words came out between panicked breaths and tears.
Larry and Lydia came to pick me up and left the car, my beautiful red Pacifica that had transported me safely through it all. Larry drove me to work, and I cried most of the way. "Are you sure you want to go in today?"
"I have to," I blubbered. I needed to get my mind off of it.
Larry escorted me to my desk, and then hugged me goodbye. "Why hadn't we hugged earlier?" I thought. It was the best hug I'd ever had. It felt good to feel his strong arms around me. Protective.
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MAY-17-08
7:16:43
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Forum: Prayer Requests and Answers
RE: my prayer request.
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lovelygurl
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PRAYERS are very powerful.
The Devil smiles when we are weak;
He laughs when we are too busy;
He giggles when we area afraid;
BUT He trembles when we PRAY..
We can do all things thru Christ which strengthened us.
In Christ,
Guirlee Medina Jomoc
Cagayan de Oro Philippines
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MAY-16-08
1:3:15
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Forum: Prayer Requests and Answers
RE: my prayer request.
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LadyHarmony
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Hello again April- I know it is so sad to see your brother have to go through all this. I have five children and one of my children had a brain tumor many years ago, it was not cancerous , we were glad for that.
I have a son who is 23 and he is on here too.
I will pray fof you and your brother and your family tonight.
Love sister carleen
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MAY-15-08
18:13:45
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Forum: Christian Singles Member Surveys
RE: Divorce and Rebound!
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launchpadbill
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For the past how many years divorce has become the normal awnser to our daily problems, scripture has given us sufficient reason when and where divorce is acceptable, adultery is the most obvious reason, but what is it that causes a spouse to behave in such a manner. It can only be found in the offender themselves they are also abusive to their mates and or family members especially to their children, it is seems to be someone else's fault and the situation continues to exaserbate I'm so sorry for those victims of spousal abuse and their children. I pray for the healing hand of the Lord on those victims and on the offenders. I enjoyed 40 years with my late wife who was abused and assaulted by her first husband many times, he was an alcholic. She finally had to leave him for her own sake and the safety of her children, there was no helping him, he himself died a few years ago from cancer and drinking.
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