“But the Lord said to Samuel,
“Do not consider his appearance or his height, for I have rejected him.
The Lord does not look at the things people look at.
People look at the outward appearance, but the Lord looks at the heart.”
~ 1 Samuel 16:7 ~
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Two days ago we received a call from my son in law telling us our daughter and her three daughters were in a serious car accident and our daughter was being transported to the hospital in an ambulance.
I couldn’t really process that news.
My heart felt like it was sinking.
We had a 45 minute drive and the whole time I was praying and hoping and wondering what was going on.
It is one of those times when you say an arrow prayer right up to God asking Him for protection.
It felt surreal for me to have half my family in one crumpled car.
The angels were working overtime and did their job very well.
The little girls were not visibly hurt at least for that day.
Sarah our daughter had neck and back trauma but not enough to create serious issues.
She could move her legs and feet and even though she was slammed hard it wasn’t as bad as it could have been.
Many things could have been worse.
The lady who rear ended her going over fifty five miles per hour said ‘it was her fault’ as she was trying to light a cigarette and she apparently didn’t see our daughters car stopped with her left signal on. Sarah had three cars heading towards her and one full speed car coming behind her and the only thing she could do was try to get away from the full impact.
When she was hit from the rear it spun her car and pushed it into a fenced field missing a telephone pole by less than a few feet.
I believe the angels worked quickly to keep them all safe.
They will have residual headaches and soreness but they are alive and even though the car is crumpled our family was protected and safe.
I believe in Angels.
I believe that nothing is by accident.
Even this kind of experience has a purpose.
I just feel so relieved that it all turned out as good as it did.
Have you ever had a time of feeling so incredibly thankful?
It would be good for us all to say ‘thank you’.
The most important thing in life to remember!
You are unique… individual… and created by God for a purpose!
Psalm 139:
You know exactly how I was made, bit by bit,
how I was sculpted from nothing into something.
If you are reading this on the 24th it is important for you to go back and read the last four ‘posts’ I did on the 23rd. They are in order telling a story…beginning with the title “13 years ago.”
As the night continued our daughter was not out of recovery and as a concerned mom I could not leave and go home until I knew she was going to be stable and settled in her room.
It was close to 1:30am when she finally was out of recovery and I could head home for some much needed sleep for myself.
Since it was a work day this mom and new grandma had been awake almost 24 hours.
I headed home and at the same time I was leaving my husband was heading to the hospital to see our daughter and our new grand daughter.
We were grandparents for the first time.
We were on a new journey together and it would be a change for us.
I believe God knew it would be a good change.
One of my favorite pictures of grandpa and our new ‘little one’ is this one.
She had been in nicu a few days as her IV was gone and it looks like she was resting peacefully.
As a first time grandpa to lay your hand on a soft ‘tiny’ person and pray over them is an honor.
She stayed in nicu for 3 weeks needing different levels of care.
Then they released her to go home at 3 weeks and 3 days old weighing only 3 pounds 9 ounces.
When our daughter called me at work I was surprised she could go home that soon.
After 6 weeks of being home the time came for Sarah ‘our daughter’ to go back to work and someone just had to be with this little tiny bundle so ‘grandma’ quit her job and stayed home with her for three years giving her a good start at life.
We both needed this time for nurture, growth and renewed hope.
I believe God knew my heart needed a purpose to give and nurture and
learn to love again perhaps even for the first time on a new and different level.
Faith Elizabeth was our miracle baby ~
here she is at age 5 months weighing only 8pds with dimples and beautiful blue eyes.
Our joy had come and our lives were changed.
I was a stay at home grandma and loving it.
God was restoring my heart and giving me peace.
Home became a ‘safe’ place for me.
Our marriage was restored with a lot of work and we knew we were beginning a life together as grandparents.
Our story is her story.
She was our miracle.
So many things could have happened with her and didn’t.
God saw her and formed and completed her beauty way before she was even born.
Psalm 13913-16
Oh yes, you shaped me first inside, then out;
you formed me in my mother’s womb.
Simplicity
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