I received this photo in a text message from my brother today.  It said my parents had been in a car accident, but that they were at home and safe.  (Knowing how much I worry… you can imagine how NOT so calm I was to see pictures of a torn up vehicle that didn’t even come close to looking like my parents 2009 “like new” car.)

I called my mother to find out what had happened.  Last Saturday they took an out of state trip to visit family.  Today they were on their way home, an approximate 5 hour drive.  They were about 45 minutes away from home and mom asked, “Do you think we should stop to use the bathroom, get a drink and stretch?”  Dad said they had only a short way to go, they might as well keep going.

Around 25-30 minutes from home, dad was taking a nap.  Mom must have fallen asleep at the wheel and said she heard the sound of tires hitting gravel.  It caused her to turn the wheel one way, then the other.  She hit a guard rail, bounced off, hit it again, bounced off, hit it once again and was spinning in the process.  All 4 sides of the car were damaged.  But, the Nissan Altima’s air bags NEVER opened.

They walked away from the vehicle.  A female witness stopped to help, and said that she thought there was NO possible way anyone could get out of this car!  She said that angels must have been watching out over them.  The police office could not believe how far the skid marks went.

As the evening went on, I just could not get over the fact that today, I could have lost BOTH of my parents in one accident.  Things such as this have a way of stopping us in our busy paths so that we can see just how fragile life is.  Dear God, thank you for sparing my parents’ lives.  Someone on FB commented that they must have a purpose for God to spare them.  Yes, that is true:  I need them too much!

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