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By Cheryl

April 30, 2010

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So I remember promising a blog probably about a month ago after I got home from Spain and realized today as I was talking to some lovely people that I hadn’t made good yet.

Today I was driving home from Minneapolis and I couldn’t really share the driving because of injuring my neck by turning it yesterday (yup new discoveries on fragileness).   The learning through this for me had to do with a new perspective on gratefulness and enjoying life even in really excruciating pain (I couldn’t move it without it hurting, in fact could barely move anything without sending shoots of pain down my neck and back).  But I was in Minneapolis!  I had to enjoy myself and I did, thanks to some great friends.

Anyways, I dropped Matt off in Arnaud and said I’d be fine driving back to Winnipeg, which I was… while on the highway I even talked to Mel a bit on the phone – she asked me to pray because before we go on our inner-city kids camps we always feel the days before really bad about it, like anxious and not wanting to go – ish.  So I prayed for her on the phone and after words just felt a nice breath of the Spirit and was praying.  Well… about 5 minutes later I was trying to make a lane change to get on the off ramp, and having been driving in the US, was expecting to be let in, and not being able to shoulder check completely with the neck thing, I started turning only to see in my peripheral that this person was having none of it, so I jerked back, still looking that way and bounced on the cement 3 foot medium in the middle.  I heard stuff falling as I had smashed into it and having bounced off significantly, I assessed the situation.  I was fine, but that was close sooo a nice word came out of my mouth, and I started to start crying because I knew the car must be damaged.  But then… the gratefulness came in.  Everything was alright.  I didn’t hit another car, I wasn’t even in pain and I was safe to continue home.  I prayed that the car would be fine.  I trusted it would all be alright.  When I got home – I ALMOST in disbelief assessed every part of my car that could have been damaged.  I thought “  I would be so blessed if it was just a slightly scratched or the headlight broken.”  But nothing.   It’s time to get the wheels rotated anyways, and mechanic told me the car is A-ok.

I was reading in Exodus yesterday about how God sent these angels along with the Israelites and told them about them so they wouldn’t worry, be concerned or afraid.  And I just marvelled at the coolness of that and the promise in it.   Now more than before, I think how wonderful that is… how blessed we are and how GOOD He is.

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