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Last night at 1:27 AM , I recieved a phone call that may forever change my feelings around all future celebrations of the 4th of July. It could very well have been a most intolerable day in all future celebrations , but instead it will always be a day I will think about how lucky a person I truly am.
The call came in , I was asleep but I sensed something was wrong as the whole evening had given me a sense of uneasieness and uncertainty. I could not pinpoint it just knew things weren't right. My 19 year old son had rolled his car over on the interstate , he was going too fast and was upset and had been out with friends. Decided to call it a night and head home. He was traveling in the high speed lane, cut off by another car(as witnessed by travelers heading in the same direction as he was traveling). He turned the wheel hard as by instinct , hit the cement jersey barrier, the car flipped on its roof and slid across the highway coming to rest on the low speed side of the highway. He had set out forgetting to put his seat belt on and just moments before the incident , buckled up. The car came to rest with him suspended upside down in the seat restraint. Covered with broken glass and feeling shoulder pain from the harness he was able to think his way through realizing the car could now be hit by other vehichles . He had managed to escape this possibility as his car carreened across the highway and as he heard the sounds of the traffic around him sreeching to a halt to miss hitting him. He crawled out the window and sat down on the cement curb.
How lucky indeed he was, how saved he was, and what a miracle of sorts it was for me his mom and the rest of my family to have things work this way when so so many times similar incidents end in tragedy. I have said it before and I will tell him again when he gets up. There are choices we make that can put our lives in jeopardy and there are miracles that happen and purpose to all our lives, this young fellow has had several oportunities to test all of our faith , I hope he is able to realize the blessing he has been given and make purpose from his gift of continued life.
Thank you for listening. Everyone have a VERY safe Holiday.
Pam
The call came in , I was asleep but I sensed something was wrong as the whole evening had given me a sense of uneasieness and uncertainty. I could not pinpoint it just knew things weren't right. My 19 year old son had rolled his car over on the interstate , he was going too fast and was upset and had been out with friends. Decided to call it a night and head home. He was traveling in the high speed lane, cut off by another car(as witnessed by travelers heading in the same direction as he was traveling). He turned the wheel hard as by instinct , hit the cement jersey barrier, the car flipped on its roof and slid across the highway coming to rest on the low speed side of the highway. He had set out forgetting to put his seat belt on and just moments before the incident , buckled up. The car came to rest with him suspended upside down in the seat restraint. Covered with broken glass and feeling shoulder pain from the harness he was able to think his way through realizing the car could now be hit by other vehichles . He had managed to escape this possibility as his car carreened across the highway and as he heard the sounds of the traffic around him sreeching to a halt to miss hitting him. He crawled out the window and sat down on the cement curb.
How lucky indeed he was, how saved he was, and what a miracle of sorts it was for me his mom and the rest of my family to have things work this way when so so many times similar incidents end in tragedy. I have said it before and I will tell him again when he gets up. There are choices we make that can put our lives in jeopardy and there are miracles that happen and purpose to all our lives, this young fellow has had several oportunities to test all of our faith , I hope he is able to realize the blessing he has been given and make purpose from his gift of continued life.
Thank you for listening. Everyone have a VERY safe Holiday.
Pam
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