In the Blink of an Eye

This post might not be funny. Then again, it might be hilarious. You won't know until you read it.

An interesting thing happened to me last month. I was running early morning errands -- my most favorite time of the day to run errands. The first thing on my list was running by my new pharmacy; I was just getting started.

Side note: CVS sucks. Discuss amongst yourselves.

Anyhoo. I run into the pharmacy, chat it up with everyone as they fill my prescription while I wait (hello...what a concept!), and then I head out. I had a cold, was feeling generally lousy, so I just wanted to cross everything off the list and get home and in bed. My day did not go as planned.

I walked outside and got inside my van. Immediately upon my butt hitting the seat, a huge branch falls from the tree next to me and crashes into the roof of the van. It sounded like an explosion. People poured from the businesses in the shopping center and came to check on me. Frankly, it was a little surreal.

The entire roof of my van was caved in. It jarred the van so hard that every light inside came on, the visors all fell open, the rearview mirror fell all wonky...but the windshield didn't break. I can't explain it but I'm thinking that would have freaked me out, so I'm glad it stayed intact.

So it was a craptastic morning. And it got me thinking... what if that had been someone in a smaller car? (The car next to me was a little Mazda). What if I still drove the convertible? What if it had been a couple of seconds earlier and I wasn't in the van when the branch fell? Those are some scary what-ifs.

All of this thinking led me to more thinking. This is how it goes with me sometimes. I cannot be stopped. But I got started on the whole "the day Spanky was born" thing. How if I'd had my first seizure when I was driving, I would have crashed my car. How if I hadn't called SH less than 5 minutes prior to the seizure, we wouldn't have been on the phone when it happened, and no one would have known how to reach him. How just a matter of seconds meant all the difference.

Surely you can see God is all over this. How can you not? And yet, there are those who will believe this is yet another instance in which "luck" played a part. Nope, sorry guys, but we are blessed. Believe it.

So, I lied. This post wasn't hilarious. Not even remotely funny. But someone who reads this might have needed the reminder: God's got your back. Always.