Faith proceeds the miracle. I have been taught that my entire life, and even when things don't turn out exactly the way I had hoped, I still trust that the Lord is in charge and I have found peace in even the most trying circumstances. We have to actively believe in order to see miracles. Though often the miracle is not exactly what we wanted, but simply the understanding to get through whatever it is that we happen to be struggling with.
Yet sometimes, things happen that teach us that everything is not exactly as we believe it to be, and that we have angels watching over us, and praying for us... and just maybe, we need to take a little more time to pray for others. The past month have given me many opportunities to recognize unseen hands in my life, and to take the time to pray for those that I don't even know.
Kailee and Kalli were recently in an accident. A woman was having a diabetic reaction. The girls had passed her on the highway by the high school and were concerned that she was drunk because of the way she was driving. Kailee's exact words to Kalli were, "Let's get around this crazy right now!" This is the busiest time of the day and traffic in both directions is nonstop.
They had traveled less than a mile after passing her when Kailee looked in the rear view mirror and sees the same SUV rapidly approaching her. There was absolutely no place to move. To the right were cars, the left had oncoming traffic. The lady continued to accelerate and Kailee did her best to maneuver to the left so that she didn't hit her straight on from behind, which probably saved their lives (for the first time!). But it propelled Kailee into oncoming traffic. Hit her so hard she was thrown into the slow lane of oncoming traffic. Somehow a man in a truck was paying good enough attention and they crisscrossed paths as he moved to the passing lane. She was able to get off the road and stop. They were shaken up, Kailee hit her head several times and they both had whiplash. Kailee especially had serious whiplash and is still dealing with pretty severe pain. Kalli is a lot shorter and because Kailee warned her they were going to be hit, she kind of curled around the box she was holding and didn't get as banged up.
Kailee called us. Very shaken up. Obviously. The SUV had continued driving. In fact never slowed down. Thayne headed to the girls ahead of me. As I left the house he called to tell me there was a bad wreck with multiple cars at the round about. The woman had continued another mile plus and hit two more vehicles causing a pile up at the round about. I stopped there and let the cops know the woman was responsible for the girls wreck also. The officer said they were just putting it all together. So I headed to meet Thayne and the girls at the hospital.
It was very scary but we were so grateful for the very obvious miracles that had saved them that night.
Fast forward a few days later. Kailee went into work to meet the delivery driver at work. Freight was due in that morning. She waited and waited and they didn't show up. So she decided to run to the bank forgetting that the bank didn't open until 9am. There is the main doors and then the ATM and the inside doors to the bank. She tried to open the inside doors as it dawned on her that she was early. A woman was standing in there and an older, Indian man who had been in a big truck came in and told Kailee the bank opened at 9. She said she just realized she was early. She gets nervous around strangers and tried to avoid conversation. But this man started telling her about an accident he had witnessed the week before. He described Kailee's red car (obviously she wasn't in the car so he had no idea it was hers). He told her if he had ever doubted God, or that God hears our desperate prayers, that night, he knew the truth. That God hears our desperate prayers because he prayed desperately for the people in that car. He told her he watched the SUV hit the car and throw her into oncoming traffic. He said the truck moved into the opposite lane just missing the red car. And then he told her that the other cars just disappeared. He said there were cars coming and that there was no way for them not to be hit. Except the cars disappeared. Kailee was in tears by now and told him that she was the driver of the red car. He kind of smiled and told her God was there. He heard the prayers, and He was there. That the other cars just disappeared so she and her sister were safe. Kailee went into the bank. Both she and the other lady had tears in their eyes. She came back out and the man, who hadn't even gone into the bank told her God was there that night. Then he told her to go to the site of the accident and sprinkle some blessed water and pray so her back would be healed. NOT knowing her back was hurt really bad. Interesting thing. At the very moment he was telling her, I was in Idaho in classes at Butterfly Express MAKING BLESSED WATERS!!! Homeopathic remedies called blessed water.
The man turned to leave. Kailee told him he never went into the bank. He just kind of shrugged and told Kailee, "God bless you" and got in his truck, and left. He was at the bank early, and then never went in. But delivered a message so powerful, I doubt we will ever be the same.
God hears our desperate prayers.
