Trust

My heart rate still goes up when I think about last night. I was driving to babysit with Lindsey and crossing a highway. I'd forgotten how wet the roads were from all this rain we've been having (8 inches this week!) and gave it a little too much gas. The rest happened in a matter of seconds. My tires (which really need to be replaced) spun out and Emmett and I seemed to be at a stand still in the middle of the highway with on-coming cars, then we picked up a little speed and the back end fish-tailed, headed straight for a light pole and a huge ditch, I over corrected and almost hit the median, sign and car on the other side of my lane, over corrected again and felt us careening toward another small ditch in front of me. About the time my brain started registering that "If I don't get control of the car, we're going to crash" Emmett and Lindsey and I miraculously slid to a halt on a providentially placed gravel patch. The rest of the night I was almost in shock, realizing how many things could have happened, how many things God protected us from. It was just amazing to me, knowing that God was guiding my hands to be able to steer out of our skid, even though I over corrected.

We had a great evening (a few thoughts on that in another post), finally got two excited boys to sleep, watched a movie and visited for quite a while with the mom (a lady we work with who has been away for several weeks). And then it was 1:30 am driving home and my car was on empty and desperately needing gas, but two girls at that time of night going to a dark gas station didn't seem a very smart idea. It was really worrying me though, knowing that I had to take Lindsey home and still get home myself without running out of gas, and God just gently said, "Katie, I just prevented you from at least four things you could have crashed into and been seriously injured and your car totally smashed up; you and Lindsey are perfectly safe and your car doesn't even have a scratch on it...And you're worried about running out of gas??? Just trust Me."