Pastor John,
Good morning! Just had to write and tell about an experience Jammie and I had last night after leaving your house.
We had left our house to head your way and we jumped into Jammie’s car, she drove, which I usually do most of all the driving. After leaving your basement, walking to the car, Jammie still had her keys, she went to open the car door, (here’s the great part.) I just said without thinking “don’t you want me to drive?” she replied, “yes.” So, we had to run and pick up Noah at basketball practice, Jacob, was across town at his practice, which I pick up at 9:30. Well, while driving to Noah’s practice we were just talking about how good God has been to us.:) Jammie, again, sitting in the passenger seat… We were heading down Rogers Rd., pretty dark, driving around 40 mph-ish. I looked up and there was a vehicle coming into my lane, I didn’t bother Jammie with it, I just got over a bit and all would be good. So, I thought!! The vehicle kept coming into my lane and I could see at this time it was a large work van, loaded with ladders on top and was driving very fast. At this point the ENTIRE vehicle was in my lane, and headed straight towards us, going a lot faster than I was. With out much thinking I glanced to my right to see if it was ok to leave the road and go into a field, yard, or whatever was not in front of this vehicle coming towards us. I knew not to hit the brakes and just brace for impact, which I believe that’s exactly what Jammie would have done if she was driving. I pulled the car over as hard as I could without flipping it, slid into a field while keeping full control of this car (with Jesus help!) sliding in the dark kicking up mud and grass, was able to slow down a bit, then made it back on the road safely, all without Jammie seeing what just happened, and why.
So, I’m very thankful for so many things! I usually don’t make it to Noah practice to pick him up on Thursday’s. So, Jammie would have been driving that road which she does every Thursday night with the kids in the car. Things could have been a lot different for this body today!
After back on the road I was explaining to Jammie what had happen, then I noticed that about 500ft away from where I left the road way to escape, there was a bridge, there’s no way I could have missed that on coming vehicle at that point in the road. – GOD IS GOOD!
AMEN! Paul