18 May 2013

We are alive.

Yesterday, we were driving to the Institute and on the way, one of the worse, or THE worse intersections of the  city had the traffic lights out.  They weren't working.  We commented that it was sure stupid that the engineers, or the city people, or those hoo doo  people didn't immediately fix the traffic lights. That intersection has traffic coming from five different ways, and it is always awful.  We have been sitting at that intersection and often drivers just run red lights, ignoring the lights.  One has to be aware, and expect the unexpected.  There is always lots of traffic at the intersection.

Well  tonight, we were returning from Santo Domingo where we went to witness one of our students get her endowments before her mission, (She has been assigned to PROVO, nice huh?)  We approached that intersection and commented that the traffic lights were still out.  I approached the intersection and checked out the many different ways.  One of the feeder streets, where traffic came to that intersection, comes from the left, from a hill, and around a corner, thus I could not see down that road.  I waited until it was safe to proceed and slowly entered the large intersection.  As I did, there was a guy coming FAST into the intersection.   I glanced to my left and there he was.  He was coming straight for me.  I wasn't going fast, but put on my brakes by reflex.  He was practically in  my lap, and I saw his face as his car came directly for our front left fender.

As I saw fear in his face, I saw him start to turn the steering wheel to the right. I saw him slam on his brakes, turn his wheel and fear enter his face.  Based upon the speed of his car, the speed of his effort to turn his car out of the crash,  I knew he was going to hit my car door.  I actually "felt" his impact, could see us thrown around and injured, badly.  As the front of his large car went to hit ours, I again noted the fear in his face, for he was right there, in front of me, plowing into me. I felt I could reach out and touch him.  His face is engraved in my mind.   Due to the slow reaction of his car, I, as I said before, felt the impact.  It was really as if I could feel the car hit ours and both of us being tossed around and who  knows what?  THEN...

Angels answered our prayer of this morning, many of your prayers, and angels moved his car, much faster than it was moving to the right.  I almost felt his car scrape ours.  As his tires screeched, as his car turned, almost as if it were on a turn table, he missed us and came to a stop right in front of my seat.  I looked into his eyes and his mouth dropped open.  He was as surprised as I was how fast his car reacted, beyond the initial change in direction.  

I know we should have been involved in a serious accident and would have had lots of injury on our part.  I am humbled tonight to know that Father is protecting us, saving us from accidents and other unseen happenings.  We should have been in an accident.  Thanks be to our loving Father for protection tonight.  It was truly a protection miracle.