Tonight Jungle Princess, Game Master, Maggie and I were home on the way from Awanas. There was a car parked in the middle of the road. No lights, no flashers, nothing. I assumed they were broken down and saw a man opening the side door of the car to motion me on. I pulled up, rolled down a window and asked if I could be of assistance.

A lady asked if I had a cell phone she could use.  I did, but then remembered that my cell phone is broken. I can call numbers in my memory, but if they have a 1,2, or 3 in the number, I can't dial it because those buttons have stopped working...another story for another day. I suggested they put on their hazard lights. We could not find them.  Anywhere on the steering column!  Then I remembered I had flares in my trunk. I opened my trunk. We are in the country, there are no lights, and while I have a flare, I don't carry a flashlight.  My trunk light hasn't worked in ages. My small miracle was that tonight, on the dark country road, when their lights wouldn't work and I had no flashlight, the trunk light lit up so I could find my flares and read the direction on the back of the package. God is amazing, isn't he!

Well, I told her we would walk to the house on the corner (I know the people) and use their phone. But they were not home. So we went back to my car and I drove her a couple of miles down the road to her cousin's house while her fiance waited with the car. (Forgot to mention, the reason they were in the middle of the road was they had hit a deer. The deer had run off. They didn't have a cell phone and they have recently moved here from New Jersey, so weren't aware of  'proper procedure'. All they could think of was getting the car home to her cousin.  Unfortunately, the car simply stopped working and they were stranded. It is totaled with the whole hood bashed in.Technically, they should have called the police where they were hit and filed an accident report, by driving it a few miles closer to home, they have endangered the insurance claim, but of course they did noth know that.

Anyway, Nancy is talking and trying to calm herself. She is terrified by what her cousin will say. I told her the important thing was that they were all right and the insurance would take care of the damage (I saw the damage, and I feel fairly sure in the end it will work out alright).  I took Nancy home and a woman with a cross around her neck came to the door. She didn't ask Nancy if they were okay or ask us in. She just backed up moaning and went in the house. Then after a few moments, she came back out asking more questions about what happened and when, then went back in. Finally, Nancy screwed up her courage and went in trying to explain. The cousin was hollering at her for not leaving the car where the accident had occured. As the cousin disappeared down a hallway, I loudly made the comment to Nancy (2 others were in the room) that the important thing was that everyone was alright and the insurance would take care of the rest. At that point, I said I had to go as I didn't want my DH worrying about where I was.

I stopped to let the fiancee know that they were on their way. They arrived as I walked away from my car and the woman coming out of this woman's mouth was obscene. I felt so sorry for Nancy and her fiancee and all I knew to do at that point was to pray.  It bothered me that this woman with her cross necklace could behave such, but I also know I have behaved poorly under stress. I pray for them all that there will be peace in their family, that the insurance issue will work out okay and that once the woman calms down, she will apologize to Nancy for her anger. I ask that you send up a prayer on their behalf as well.

God bless!