It Happened, but he's OK!!!!

Every parents' worst nightmare. We've all heard about it. . . that late night phone call. Well mine came. Two thirty in the morning on Monday, the phone rings. It is Adam (who was with Travis at the Christmas party we had all attended earlier) he was in the ambulance on the way to the hospital. They had an accident. He assured me they were both alright. I asked if I could talk to Travis and was told he had a "thing" over his face, but I could hear the attendant saying "he's alright". They were going to Katy hospital. Jim and I get dressed, find directions to Katy hospital and drive there. All the way, I'm thinking of all the things I don't know. I don't know anything. I don't know how to get to the hospital, I don't know what shape they will be in, I don't know if there was more than one car involved, I just don't know!!! Well we get there and find Adam standing in his stocking feet in the emergency room. He seems fine. He doesn't know what happened. He had gone to sleep and woke up in a ball in the floor board. Travis has been taken for x-rays and we wait. Adam's family arrive. Adam has a small cut on the back of his head and bruises from the seat belt on his neck. And we wait. . . and wait. . . and wait, for what seems to be an eternity. A state trooper arrives and talks to Adam. He tells us they ran into the back of a semi truck, then flipped over and skidded about 200 to 300 feet on the top of the car. Oh God! I'm not sure knowing is better. I go back into the emergency room and he is back from x-ray and talking to the officer. My first sight of him. He looks okay too. He has dried blood on his face and his hands are badly scraped and cut, shoulders are scraped and cut, but he seems okay. There is a bad bruise on the top of his forehead and he is a little dizzy when he sits up so they do a cat scan. All tests come back normal and they proceed to clean and dress his wounds and we leave the hospital about 6:30.

We begin the calls. Family, insurance, tow company etc. When Adam finds where the car is Jim and Travis go out to get any loose items that are still there. Adam didn't have his keys, cell phone, shoes, jacket. The car is an amazing tangle of metal. It is a true miracle that two people got out of that wreck with only minor injuries!!!! Thank you God, for not taking them today!

I am an emotional wreck. My Mother lost a son in a car wreck. I'm glad it didn't happen to me.
I am so grateful for the miracle of the event and yet can't step far enough out of the fear to stop tearing up.

This mornings lesson from A Course In Miracles is "I could see peace instead of this". How's that for timing? YES I can see peace in this. I can see that "miracles are natural, when they do not occur, something has gone wrong". I can see that God means all things for good. I can see that our journey is a planned event, not a chaotic wandering. There are lessons in this for all of us, and Travis has assured me he has learned his first one, and that it will never happen again. I'm sure my lessons will continue to arrive also. For now, I am just so grateful. THANK YOU GOD!! We'll all be okay!