A Dark and Stormy Night!!
Indeed a true title, for last Friday night when I was returning from Douglasville, Georgia to Kennesaw on Highway 92 when I was hit by a sudden thunderstorm.
It began pouring and the rain was so thick that I could not see the front of the car or the road ahead of me. The road, a small two lane highway had steep embankments on both sides with no where to pull over. A very dark and lonely stretch of highway.
To say I was a little nervous is an understatement as I tried to find somewhere to pull over because I could not even see the stripe in the middle of the road.
Suddenly I hit the soft shoulder of the road and began to slide off the road to the right and as the wheels went off the road and I was sliding down the embankment, the back wheels caught and shot me back on to the road.
I then began to hydroplane accross the road toward the embankment on the otherside where there where houses, car’s and tree’s and they where fast approaching me, or I was approaching them, I guess it depends on your perspective. I slid off the road, down the embankment and I remember thinking I am going to a hit a house, a row of cars or that tree right in front of me.
What seem like an eternity to me was all of a sudden over and I was facing up the driveway and the embankment. I sat in shock for a little while, making sure I was all there, wondering what happen to the cars, the house and the trees because I knew, I just knew I was going to hit the tree head on but I didn’t.
I rested for a few minutes to get myself together so to speak. I drove out the driveway as the rain was slowing and drove to a store/service station and got out of the car somewhat shaken. I walked all around the car, looked it over top and bottom, front and back and the only damage was a reflector on the side of the car.
There was no damage to the body underneath or anywhere else and I know that it was a miracle of God I did not hit the cars, a house or that large tree in front of me. God moved the car or the tree, the choice is yours!
I do know that the Lord had His angels watching over me even in the midst of the storm. He made me realize that in the midst of the storms both natural or the dark nights of the soul, when it seems there is no way that I am going to survie this, surely I am going to die but my heavenly Father reaches down and plucks me from the storms and puts me on solid ground, a firm foundation and hedges me with His presence and that is what He wants us to remember that in the midst of it all He is there to redeem us as we call out to Him.
Oh, there will be bruises and bumps of soul and spirit but also the healing balm of the Holy Spirit will be applied to those bruises and we will survie and we shall declare the awesomeness of our Father.
Indeed in the midst of the dark and stormy nights of the soul, of the spirit, of life, Our Father will watch over us and bring us home safely as we call upon Him.
Till later,
Paul