Thursday, May 21, 2015

Late Night Call

No parent ever wants "that" call. That call that starts, "Mrs. Slaughter? ... This is officer so-n-so, calling for your daughter Jesslyn... She was in an accident..." You can't prepare your heart quick enough to not stop beating, or to tell your stomach not to fall out. All you can do is pray.

We were blessed. She was truly being watched over last night. I pray every day for my kids, their decisions, their safety, etc... I feel that God truly had his hand around her last night. She had reached for her Gatorade, and hit the rumble strip on the fog line and jerked the wheel to the left and over corrected, crossed oncoming traffic and flipped her car upside down. What didn't happen... She didn't hit oncoming traffic. She didn't go off the road into the group of trees on the other side of the driveway. She wasn't injured. At. All. She said her legs were "hard to pull out" of the car, but they weren't pinned. She squeezed out the passenger side window, the rest of the glass in the vehicle was blown out, but she crawled through the glass covered ground and had a tiny tiny scratch on her pinky knuckle. 


I've handled many many auto claims. Many with the exact same scenario, that have ended much worse. I've seen first hand the results of what that overturned vehicle can do. But last night, we were the ones blessed by God's grace and protection. I didn't get the even scarier phone call that they had taken her to the hospital. 

As I went to bed last night, I couldn't even begin to worry about the ticket, the car, the insurance. All I could do was thank God, over and over and over, for keeping my baby girl safe and watching over her. Somehow, someway, he will help us replace the vehicle. But replacing my baby girl is impossible. 

Lord, Thank You.