God's mercy...

SEPTEMBER 28, 2009

God’s mercy

Yesterday we wanted to give my sweet mother in law a little adventure. We took her to the cemetery where her parents, daughter, and granddaughter are buried. Then off to the river where her parents owned a large piece of land. There’s a subdivision there now. She wanted to see what they had done with the land. We walked by the river and had a lovely walk down memory lane.  That’s the adventure that we planned.

God had other things planned though. Got in an accident! 4 cars, 3 of them smooshed– 1 driver sent to the hospital. There were 3 or 4 fire trucks and 4 police cars, sirens, they even closed down the street. There were people all around taking pictures, glass everywhere. Three out of four cars were towed away. Our car? Not bad for having been hit by a car that ended upside down on it. It hit the trunk. No windows broken, even the turn signals work– although it looks pretty nasty, we drove it home!  The three of us in our car– my husband, his 94 year old mother, and me– were fine. Because it came from the top, it jolted us and shoved us over a couple feet, but didn’t send us flying. God showed us His mercy and kept us safe. No fatalities!  I was shaking in my boots so to speak. Someone started yelling, "get out of the car! There is gasoline pouring on the car!" so that's why we had so many fire trucks show up, we were right next to a gas station and there was gasoline pouring from the other car...  My mother in law was cool and calm; she got so many people waiting on her it was funny! I stood there and quivered. 

So thank You, Lord, for your protection, and for your mercy!!

2020 note: that was really crazy and surreal. My problem was that for months I could see that car flipping toward us every time I closed my eyes. And every time I saw a white mini van... well I remembered for a very long time. It is still mind boggling how we could have survived such a smash, and that our car actually drove. I think about the fact that there was gasoline pouring on it and I wonder why they let us drive it home. Whenever we drive past the spot, we always just shake our heads in wonder.