So today I was sitting back after a long day of shoveling and I got to thinking… I know not usually the start to something good, but i promise its not too bad. I was thinking about my life, the twists, turns , and dead ends that have brought me to where I'm at right now. Breezing past most of the little decisions I began to think about my "Big Three" I've always kept in mind the three things that have changed my life the most. I know, I know, you're already asking yourself what those three are. Well let me tell you. The first is when I was in high school and I truly decided to start living my life for the Lord. The second was also in high school it was a car wreck that I was in going into my senior year. Then the thirdly, also while in high school is when I met my lovely girlfriend of currently seven years. I started off thinking which of these three was going to get knocked off for the world race. Well I cant get rid of the first one. And well of the other two the more important one to me stood out as when I met my lovely girlfriend. I'm going to let you in on something in my past, something i rarely talk about. My number two(get your laughs out cause now it gets serious… well at least for a bit) The car wreck that I was involved in, in high school. Most people call car collisions an accident, well I usually do to but this cant really be called an accident. Without going too much into detail on the story, I will tell you what happened. It was a normal summer day, me and my two best friends were hanging out at my house. We decided that we were feeling a bit hungry and also looking for something to do, we decided to go to the walgreens that is just outside my neighborhood(really not even two blocks.) Being that we were young kids that had just gotten our licenses we opted to drive rather then walk. We stopped at the one light we had to go through and waited, first in line. The light went green and as we we're heading through the intersection I caught a glimpse of something out of the corner of my eye. With out really seeing it i knew what was about to happen, I braced for impact. The next thing I remember is coming to in the same seat I was in, I did a quick mental check which consisted of wiggling my toes and kind of just moving around a little bit to see if anything was broken. I then proceeded to climb out the window that had shattered all over me. I just walked it off, I knew i was just shaken up, I wasn't hurt at all. They, forced me to go to the hospital to get checked out. While laying strapped down in a plain empty white room, that's when I first got word. My best friend Corey, didn't make it, and they weren't sure what was going on with my other friend Elliott. Soon news starts to spill in, not about my friends condition but about what had happened. The lights didn't malfunction. The man didn't stop paying attention for a split second. NO, this man… this man ran the red light on purpose, no you may be thinking to yourself "why would he do that?" well let me tell you. He had gotten caught with a stolen credit card at a hardware store about an hour north of me. And in getting caught he ran. He decided that he would roll the dice and run from police. Now you're starting to get the mental image of what happened built up so let me just fill in some other blanks, he was driving a small moving truck. And there was two other people in the truck with him. So yes the image you're now getting is correct, my life, just intersected with one of those "wildest police chases" Now my other friend was in a coma for about six months. He is finally almost back to where he was before it all happened. I'm sure you can see why this is sitting in my top three now. For several months after it all happened everything was a whirlwind, i barely remember anything from those few months. However i do remember one question that was asked of me "how can you love a God that has let such a horrible thing happen to you?" My response was immediate and strong, "I look at the positive, my God saved me. My God protected me and I was able to walk away from it with as little as a bruise on my foot and some scratches on my arm!" This whole incident really taught me two huge lessons. Live for today, because you might not get a tomorrow. But more importantly it taught me that even though I may not be thinking about him at that very moment, the Lord is protecting me! I know right now you're thinking "How can he drop that from his big three?!?" Well even if you weren't then you are now, so now that your mind is where I want it. I was thinking the same thing, the more I thought about it the more I almost felt that I had to drop it. Starting now it is a close fourth in my big three because, even though I changed so much from it Psalms 34:18-22 The LORD is close to the brokenhearted and saves those who are crushed in spirit. A righteous man may have many troubles, but the LORD delivers him from them all;he protects all his bones, not one of them will be broken. Evil will slay the wicked; the foes of the righteous will be condemned. The LORD redeems his servants; no one will be condemned who takes refuge in him. I don't need this to be in my big three because everything that it taught me the bible has been screaming at me.
I know that there are a lot of people out there going through hard stuff just remember that the God that brought you there will help you get through it as well.
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