God Did
When I sit and think of all the times death has brushed my face, but by the grace of God, He"s kept me safe, it is truly amazing. I may not know my purpose fully, but God does. So here are all those times God did:
When I was 5, I was walking to school I was in the afternoon class. When I got to the sidewalk to cross the street, I stepped out, and before my foot could hit the pavement, I was yanked back. I looked to see what stopped me in my step - I saw a face. I looked forward, and all I could see was a blur. Had that man not yanked me back, that car would have smashed me. The man walked me across the street.
This particular day, I was with some friends. I had been tinkering with my car - the side mirror was wobbly and would vibrate, so I super-glued it to keep it still. It was getting late, my phone was about to die. I had no charger. I said to my friend, "If I don"t answer the phone on my way home, it"s because my battery is low, and I need it to last just in case I get pulled over."
It was around 3 AM when I got on the freeway. I was about 15 minutes from home. It was just me, a semi, and a car some feet behind me. I glanced in my side mirror because I saw the headlights of the car behind me moving erratically. The glue didn"t hold.
I rolled my window down and put my finger on the mirror, but the lights behind me were still moving side to side. when I saw the headlights going crazy behind me, I realized it was a car starting to lose control. The screeching noise of them hitting their brakes, filling the air with smoke. . I could smell rubber, and I couldn"t see a thing - it was smokey all around me. I heard another loud noise, and it got bumpy. I was gripping the wheel so hard, just repeating "OMG, OMG, OMG." When the lights disappeared, time slowed down it was like a secure calmness , beyond that security the time was moving as it should be in that moment that car went airborne over my car. The sound of that car crashing in front of me, then flipping over to the right side of the freeway. I was running over pieces of the car. There was so much smoke.
When I cleared through it, I was at my exit. I was in shock, and what just happened couldn"t be real. I grabbed my phone to call 911 - it was dead.
I got to the street I live on, turning left when a cop hit his lights and pulled me over. I just kept going till I was home. The cop asked, "You know why I pulled you over?"
I said, "Officer, there"s been a bad accident you need to get to." He asked if I called 911. I said my phone was dead.
The next day, I went to see the road, and what I saw was unreal. There were long tire streaks on the road, then a blank space - the space my car was in - and then more tire marks in front of the blank space that veered left, then tire marks that veered right. You see what God did? It"s like there was a shield around my car. Wow, God did that.
