Do you look for the blessings that are in your path even when you feel you are being cursed? I saw so many blessings recently within a situation that could certainly have been devastating.
So, two of us in my car driving in the rain that has been drenching our area for several days. We're on the highway headed several miles away to watch my first ever professional football...not only my first in person professional game, but my team, the Indianapolis Colts were playing. Just about the time I was going to ask for a stop, we start hydroplaning. I closed my eyes and prayed until I heard someone asking me if I was ok. We had wrecked, pretty badly. My immediate thought after I realized I was not seriously injured and I remembered to be thankful for that answered prayer, was, "well this well planned out trip has just been severely interrupted. Hotel that was paid for and is now too late to cancel with a refund. Tickets bought months earlier will be left unused. AND we have to figure out how to get back home which was 2 plus hours away."
But then, I called the insurance company while we were waiting for the tow truck that the trooper called. First blessing: we had rental coverage and there was going to be a car waiting in the next town, just 10 minutes up the highway. Next: the insurance company would also be taking care of the tow bill, I didn't have to figure that one out. The trooper took us to the rental car place once the tow truck came. Another blessing: out of all of the charges we could have received, we only received a non-moving violation ticket. Then: the lady at the rental car place went above and beyond to get us in our car and on our way. So, we head to where the car was towed so we can get out things out of it. As we get out of our car, we are approached by an insurance rep who is working on the estimate for the car...we should not have run in to him that soon, another blessing.
We get our things, drive off. We get to the hotel, find out that we will have 30 minutes of down time to relax from the afternoon's events AND the hotel has a shuttle to get us to the game and pick us back up after!! More blessings! So, we make the game, even in the rain!!
Another curse, we get home the next day and the insurance company calls to tell me my car is totaled. Not good at all...I'm still paying on that car and will not be able to obtain another loan so now what will I do? Pray...during all of this, I am praying like never before. Tuesday, one week and one day after the wreck, I get a new car. It's a pretty awesome car. I even got a return on the rental that I paid to have an extra week since I turned it in early. More blessings.
My ordeal is not over, however, there have been so many blessings, so many answered prayers that God has truly showed me the promises of His rainbow. Through all the rain and clouds and the things that seemed impossible, God has covered my eyes with rainbows. I am blessed. Look for your rainbows even when you think you can't see through the clouds.
All my love, me.
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