9 O'Clock

At about 9 O’Clock I was driving into town for a dental visit. On the way down the highway I notice an ambulance parked on the side of the road. Ok someone in that house is very ill and I prayed for them. Not any great long prayer just what I call a Nehemiah prayer. Then I noticed two Police Officers standing talking to a couple. Alright this is odd I thought. Then I finally pulled level with the next intersection and noticed glass on the road. “Oh dear there has been and accident here, they really should do something about this corner, it is dangerous”. Most locals know this and avoid it but sometimes you just can’t.

What I didn’t see, was my daughter, granddaughter and her car on that corner. I had no idea that it was her that was involved in that accident until later that day when she rang me. This is the third accident that this family has experienced in less than a year, one of which took my mother’s life and in this case if my daughter hadn’t had the presence of mind to floor the accelerator the other driver would had hit my granddaughter square on. So I am grateful for His protection of my family.

As I continued to thank Him for His protection at 4 O’Clock this morning I had to ask why? Not why were they involved in the accident but why didn’t I see everything? I saw the police, ambulance, the other people but not my own family? She saw me drive past and it is as if they were hidden from my sight. It feels a bit like those situations when your children a very little, you are ten feet away and you see them starting to fall but you have no time to get to them in time to cushion their landing.

This question will be debated by me and God for a while yet but the first response seems to be: “It doesn’t matter how far away or how close you are, your children are in My hands now”. Ecclesiastes 3:6 reminds me that there is: “A time to get, and a time to lose; a time to keep, and a time to cast away;” This doesn’t mean that I am throwing away my family but I do have to leave them in His care.