{"id":5505,"date":"2015-02-06T14:59:08","date_gmt":"2015-02-06T14:59:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pjhmail.wordpress.com\/?p=5505"},"modified":"2015-02-06T14:59:08","modified_gmt":"2015-02-06T14:59:08","slug":"very-thankful-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/5505\/very-thankful-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Very Thankful!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">Pastor John,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\"> Good morning! Just had to write and tell about an experience Jammie and I had last night after leaving your house.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">We had left our house to head your way and we jumped into Jammie&#8217;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&#8217;s the great part.) I just said without thinking &#8220;don&#8217;t you want me to drive?&#8221;\u00a0 she replied, &#8220;yes.&#8221; So, we had to run and pick up Noah at basketball practice, Jacob, was across town at his practice, which I pick up at\u00a09:30. Well, while driving to Noah&#8217;s practice we were just talking about how good God has been to us.:)\u00a0 Jammie, again, sitting in the passenger seat&#8230; We were heading down Rogers Rd., pretty dark, driving around 40 mph-ish.\u00a0 I looked up and there was a vehicle coming into my lane, I didn&#8217;t bother Jammie with it, I just got over a bit and all would be good. So, I thought!!\u00a0 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&#8217;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.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\"> So, I&#8217;m very thankful for so many things! I usually don&#8217;t make it to Noah practice to pick him up\u00a0on Thursday&#8217;s. So, Jammie would have been driving that road which she does every\u00a0Thursday\u00a0night with the kids in the car. Things could have been a lot different for this body today!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\"> 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,\u00a0 there was a bridge, there&#8217;s no way I could have missed that on coming vehicle at that point in the road. &#8211; GOD IS GOOD!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">AMEN!\u00a0 Paul<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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&#8217;s car, she drove, which I usually do most of all the driving. After leaving your basement, walking to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5505","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-netmail"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5505"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5505"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5505\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5505"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5505"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5505"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}