Miracle

I had an miraculous experience resulting from a deer also. I was on my way home from Edmonds on I-90traveling east up the hill towards Highway 18 at 70 miles per hour a pick up truck was passing me on the left side.

Suddenly I saw that the traffic was slowing down up ahead. Later on we found out that someone had hit a deer and it was lying on the highway. The driver of the pickup didn’t see it in time and all of a sudden swerved right and lost control.

I tried to avoid him by moving quickly over to the right but he slammed into my car, the driver’s door, squarely at me – the broken window shattered glass all over the car and my car was forced off the road and up the embankment.

When the car finally came to rest, it was totaled but I was uninjured, except for a tiny nick –hardly visible, on my forehead from the broken glass. I was so thankful to the LORD - and at peace. It was a miracle - that accident could very well have taken my life. I remember thinking as that truck came toward me, “Oh, oh, I won’t be getting home tonight!” and I didn’t. The driver of the pickup was not injured either and he came running to my car to see if I was all right and helped me get out.

After renting a car the next day I traveled home. Later the LORD led me to an amazing used car.

Awesome

Recently I had an assignment in Tonasket WA, on highway 76 in “Okanogan country” about 140 miles north of our home. I had traveled this road many times before, but on this particular day I became aware in a new way of the awesome greatness and wonder of our LORD, and a new perspective of the meaning of Christmas. As I entered that area with the beautiful rugged, snow capped mountains on both sides and ahead of me and where the glistening winding Okanogan River flowed at my left, I came to a high place on the road where I could see for miles ahead of me. As I observed the cars coming toward me in the distance they appeared as specks flowing at the base of the towering mountain – and the houses and farm buildings appeared as dots on the landscape.

Then it occurred to me that this vast area in which we live is only a dot on the globe – and that this planet is one of the smallest in our measureless galaxy, just a speck – and that our galaxy is only one of thousands in the whole universe. And then to realize that our God is so much greater than all of this – and still, we who are tiny, tiny microscopic specks in the vast universe are the objects of His never-ending love. So great a love that caused Him to send His greatly loved and only begotten Son to us to be born in a humble, lowly manger in order that He could become one of us, so that He could die for us and redeem us from the bondage and penalty of our sins and bring us to Himself.

These truths are “too wonderful for me” far beyond my limited, finite comprehension. What an amazingly great and awesome God! “Great is the LORD and greatly to be praised, and His greatness is unsearchable”[1], incomprehensible – beyond human understanding!

[1] Psalm 145:3