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It bothers me when our kids get a little complacent about our warnings to be careful, to pray, etc. when they leave the house. Several years ago, we learned a very scary lesson... Our family always prays before we begin a car outing - whether a trip to the store or a long vacation - and when our dd’s were the one’s to pray for the ride, it started getting a little “old” and sing-songy. I told them that the biggest reason we HADN’T been in a wreck was BECAUSE of the those prayers, so don’t take them for granted. A little later, as if to prove my point, the brakes went out on our mini-van and we went through 2 red lights in our small town downtown (where we lived at the time)!! We certainly were praying then…LOUDLY!!…as I maneuvered between parked cars and cars stopped at the red lights we were forced to run. When we stopped and some wonderful, concerned people who witnessed it came to help us, a lady who was in one of the cars waiting for the light to change said that she could hear us screaming our prayers and beeping our horn from a long way back! But the Lord was good, He answered those prayers and kept us safe. Lesson learned - it’s been about 11 years since then (the girls were 9 & 6) and now they don’t mind praying when that ignition hums to life anymore! Blessings from Ohio, Kim Wolf<>< |
By the way…I’ve been back on that road many times since…driving between those parked cars and the cars in line at the light WAS a miracle!…If you were to see it, you would say that there’s NO WAY a mini-van could fit between the parked cars and any cars waiting for the light! Comments