God is still the miracle business…

Miracles happen around us every day and we just take it for granted.  I’m going to be the first to say, I kind of forgot miracles do exist, that was until April 8, 2019.  This is a story I’ve been wanting to share, but just haven’t been able to put it into words.  I think I’m ready now.

Literally two weeks after getting the worst news about my dad’s cancer, my mom had a stroke that literally changed her…in what seemed a split second.  So here I am on Monday morning, April 8…two weeks after my dad’s diagnosis, the morning after my mom’s second stroke since September, after spending the night taking care of my parents and not getting much sleep…driving to work from Montgomery and I am running pretty late; late enough that I had to call and let them know I’d be in by 8:00.  The whole way from my parents house towards my little school I have a million things running through my mind:  “I’m so exhausted, I need to run by the house and get my soccer stuff, how are my sisters and I going to keep this pace up now with Daddy and Mama needing 24 hour care, why won’t God heal my daddy, why is this car in front of me going so slow, wait why haven’t I passed this slow poke with two clear lanes on either side of me, good glad I passed him, what am I going to eat for lunch, and the thoughts go on and on and on…”.

Then it happened…it happened so fast I wasn’t even sure if I was really seeing what I thought I was or if I was actually not even awake yet and this was all a bad dream…but quickly I found out I wasn’t sleeping and this was happening and I had to kick it into gear and help out.  Here’s what happened…I was coming over a hill on the highway I live off of and as soon as I hit the top of the hill, ahead of me, I saw a Suburban type SUV in what appeared to be my lane… headed towards me…but in a flash it began to flip over…it flipped across both lanes and landed in a shallow ditch off the shoulder of the road.  I pulled over immediately and picked up my phone…oh yea…that was a problem too because my phone was barely working.  I had actually ordered a replacement phone, but it hadn’t come in yet.  The only way I could use my phone and make a call was to use Siri.  Amazingly, I had the sense about me to immediately tell Siri to call 911 as I was picking the phone up…but wait!!  That is just the beginning…let me go back to where I saw the SUV flipping and I pulled over…it’s just so hard to put into words because so many things happened in literally seconds.  So all in one motion…I pull over while picking up my phone and telling Siri to call 911…I look down at my phone for maybe a second and look back up as I’m opening my car door…standing in the middle of the road screaming and crying and pointing at the wrecked vehicle was a little boy.  A little boy who was not there when I looked down at my phone…and one second later he’s there.  I went into mama auto pilot and ran out of my car calling the boy.  He willingly came to me and I quickly led him to the shoulder of the road to get him out of harms way.  He repeatedly told me “my mommy is in there” as he was pointing to the wrecked car.  And yet again in the midst of this chaos my head becomes filled with a million thoughts”how am I going to keep him safe and see about his mommy; God why is this happening to me with everything else I have going on; I don’t think I can handle anything else; what if that were me in that car and this was my child; I have to give this little boy the best care I am capable of; I’m here and I’m going to do whatever I can to help; but why God, why.” Too many thoughts and no time for them…I pushed them aside and went right back into mama mode.

About that time two other people pulled over and went to check the car out and see if his mother was okay.  Also, before I knew it, a friend of mine who saw me on the side of the road pulled over to help…thank goodness because she was such a blessing…it was then that one of the men checking the car out, crawled into the wrecked vehicle and came crawling out of it with a baby!

I immediately took the baby from his arms…now another friend has stopped to help…again another blessing and God showing me He had this…and here we are with a little boy who appears to be about 4 years old and a baby who is about one year old…but where was their mama?  And is she ok?  By this time the scene was pretty chaotic…emergency vehicles arriving…taking care of two young children and checking them out for any injuries…and trying to find their mommy.  Apparently, she had been ejected from the car…they finally found her…on the ground at the edge of the woods…but initial reports were “her injuries seemed to be very severe”…in all honesty a lot of it is a big blur…except this…

I keep going back to that instant when I pulled over after the SUV had flipped…there was no one or nothing in the middle of that highway…then I literally took a second to look down at my phone and when I looked back up the boy was standing in the middle of the road! How?? He wasn’t there one second before…there was no time for him to crawl out of that wrecked car…if he had been ejected how was he not injured…and he wasn’t. He had no broken bones…no cuts and barely a bruise. There was one scrape somewhere on his face because it got blood on my shirt…but it wasn’t anything to be concerned about…he did have some dirt on his hands. Still…how was he not there and then a second later there he was? I’m going to tell you how…an Angel of the Lord of Lords and King of Kings placed him there. Maybe he fell out of the car as it was flipping…but he fell on Angels’ Wings cause there is no way that little boy could have survived that with NO INJURIES!

The Bible tells us that Angels are real and that God sends them to protect us. Luke 4:10 says ”For it is written, ‘He will command His angels concerning you to guard you carefully.’” Well that little boy’s angel was hard at work that day! Not only his angel but the angel of the baby too…the baby…never cried or wimpered! He was so calm and so precious…and…not hurt or harmed in any way!!

And let me tell y’all about the mother who was driving the car. Remember I told you initial reports did not look good. It appeared she had suffered severe head trauma and the next 24 hours were crucial. It was confirmed she had no broken bones and barely any scratches. She did have some bleeding on her brain and some swelling. She was on life support and a vent.

Well today has been one month since the accident and she is doing amazing! She is in a rehabilitation hospital where she spends the day in therapy and will probably walk out of that hospital this week. Guess what…she had an angel too! If you had seen what I witnessed you wouldn’t of ever thought any of the three of them would have made it out with no major injuries or even alive! But they are living testimonies that God is still working those miracles and that His Angels are very much real!

I know this blog is long, but I’ve got one more thing I have to say…can we go way back up there where I mentioned the zillion thoughts running through my head when I was driving home…before I witnessed this awful accident?? Remember when I was behind the slow poke…then realized I had two clear lanes and could pass him?? My angel did that for me…you see if I had passed that slow car immediately I would have arrived at the accident 3-5 seconds earlier than I did…and guess what…had that happened I would have been in the accident with that SUV rather than witnessing it. My angel was working that day too! Y’all I’m telling you God is performing miracles…every day. They may not be the miracle we are asking for or praying for but they are happening! Also, let’s go back to the thoughts I was having at the scene…”why me, God?? Don’t I have enough going on??” Well He answered that too…He chose me to be there…I was right where He wanted me to be and right where I needed to be. Because of that day and all the things God did that day, I was reminded that He is in control and all my worries, all my fears and all my trust needs to be in Him!

I do want to say… because I know it’ll come up…please don’t ask me what caused her vehicle to flip…or was the boy in a car seat or …was she wearing her seat belt. Those questions are irrelevant at this point and whatever happened is in the past. No one should judge this accident based on my story. If you’ve ever driven a car with two young children in it then you know all the chaos that can happen in that car; so who knows what was going on before the accident. I have no idea the answers to any of your questions and honestly I don’t care if I ever know the answers. I just know God saved some lives that day and He deserves all the Praise and Glory!