Hey, friends. I know it has been a while since my last post. School started back and David has been in Missouri...which means work all day and single parent all night. (My heart goes out to all of you doing this by yourself...at least my struggle will end after duck/goose season.)
We had a BIG scare right before we started back to school which really silenced me for a few days. A few of my friends have been waiting for my response. I will tell you...I was speechless for hours. I haven't wanted to blog about it until now.
When you have something happen that makes you see how things could go bad in a matter of seconds...it makes you silent sometimes. Maybe talking about it brings up emotions you do not want to think about or even imagine.
We were in the camper the day before school started back. David left out before daylight to get his clients into the blind before shooting time. I got up and cooked myself breakfast...Chloe Jo was watching UmiZoomi (her favorite show) and drinking her juice. We were relaxing a bit before we hit the road back to Tennessee.
After getting things cleaned up and packed into the car...surprisingly, I hear David rolling in..in the "Duckmobile" minus a back glass and eyes as big as saucers. He was visibly shaken a bit or maybe in shock of what had just happened. He starts cleaning out broken glass and telling me the story of what just occurred... on this day God spared him horrible injury or even worse...and he knew it.
The throttle cable was frozen and David had gotten into the floorboard to mess with it. His parking brake was not working on the Ranger so he had it in gear to hold it better...
Well, when he pulled the throttle, it "hung wide-open" and the Ranger actually jumped the trailer and started climbing the Suburban...with David in the floorboard.
The guys who were in the blind shined the flashlight at the scene to see. They were not local folks. They could not hear anything and thought David was for sure... dead. One of the guys was a paramedic and was already thinking what his next move was going to be to get help...cell phone service is wonderful in Gobler, Missouri.
Well, I am happy to say there is a happy ending to this story...God definitely had his hands on the Ranger and on David that day. It climbed right on the edge of the Suburban and did not flip over. David walked away without a scratch. His trailer is totaled and his back glass shattered...a few things wrong with the Ranger but repairable.
Best of all, he lived to tell me about this freak accident...even though I just wanted to kill him.
You know, all I could do was just come home. After the death of my Grandmother and then this freak accident I had no words. Chloe Jo and I got in the car and came home. I couldn't talk about this for a while. I was just so thankful.
Silence is good sometimes...seeing God at work in my life so clearly makes me speechless. I thank God for his blessings on me:)
later that same day...back in the blind...:)
Friends, I'm feeling a "shanwitch" kinda day, as Chloe Jo calls it. Happy snow day:)
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