Car crash

March 13, 2007

My family had a scare this morning. I received a call from my dad at about 8:00am which is not out of the ordinary however; when I answered the phone I heard the voice of a scared man in lots of pain. He was involved in a car crash after leaving work; he worked the grave yard shift as a security guard at one of the local auto dealers. While on his way to get some rest from the long night he was suddenly thrown into what would turn out to be a rough day. We spent all morning in the E.R. and got almost nothing done for him except his pain was eased a little and was released and told to visit his primary care physician. For further treatment, oh but he should wait two days before seeing them. How crazy is that? The ER doctor knew he was in so much pain he couldn’t sit still the man was all but crying out in pain, to tell you the truth if my sister and I weren’t there he probably would have been. You know the dad always has to appear invincible in the eyes of his children. I am a dad as well so I can tell you I would have been the same way. I kind of got off track there. Throughout the whole ordeal I was amazed at the concern my dad was showing toward the condition of the lady that caused the crash in the first place, he asked on five different occasions if anyone new if she was ok, that showed me a side of my dad that I didn’t know existed until today.
When I got off the phone with him I immediately called my sister and informed her of the crash, she headed straight for the ER and just as we were getting off the phone God asked me a question. “do you know if your dad is saved” and not knowing the answer I spoke with my sister about it and we both couldn’t answer the question as we should have been able to so I asked her to ask him if she had the chance because of the traumatic event, she didn’t. As God would have it he put my dad in the truck with me on the way home from the ER and I had the chance to ask him if he was saved and to my relief he said he was. If he lied to me I guess that maybe God let me plant a seed in him this morning that if there was no crash I wouldn’t have had the opportunity to plant. We will let God do his thing now until he asks me to further the conversation and maybe get him to recommit his life to Christ.
I thought that noticing that I had been offered the opportunity to do what was asked of me by God was amazing, it tells me that I am listening to him even in times that as humans we seem to go on autopilot. That was a victory for me today.
He is at home now and is feeling better. He should be seeing his doc. In a couple of days,
I would like to thank all the ones that stopped and said a prayer for my dad this morning.