:hug: vicky:hug:
I'm sure that was quite scary for him and for you.
You will both be in my thoughts and prayers.
Thank God again and again for keeping him safe!
love,
nami
Dear Vicky--I am so sorry this happened and so glad it wasn't worse than it was....it is a scarey scarey thing to get word of a car accident. I can see you being in ''mumsey mode'' for quite awhile. ;) My love to you and Yours Miss Vicky :love: :cheekkiss:
Thank God he wasn't in Germany!
My prayers are with the Rude and yourself, of course.
Dang kids are always scarin' the heck out of moms and dads. WHAT are they thinkin'?
gus
:grouphug: Vicky
im so glad he is alright - one of parents biggest fears -
i just spent a few hours with a mom who did loose her son to a car accident - she is coping ok - she also appears to want to learn more about the bible - i think elevating ourselves to focus on the bigger picture really helps us cope abit better with all the tragedy around us
may Jehovah and his Son Jesus Christ give you strength
:hug:
Hello Vicki,
You have every need to feel mumsy right now for your son's sake. Best wishes for a speedy recovery for him - youth being on his side.
Tessa
I am sorry to hear your son was in an accident but so thankful that he is unhurt! :friends:
You and him will be in my prayers.
Thank Jah for his safety! :giverose:
Lou
:hibye:
My son was in a car crash today. They went off the road.
He appears to be unhurt, though I suspect muscles will start complaining tomorrow. It is the first time he has had an airbag explode in his face. The driver hit a pot-hole, a bend and swerved.
His job entails travel and I suspect always will. I pray Jehovah will protect him, he is a sweet person who enjoys working for charity.
vicky (going into mumsy mode).
:hibye:HI vicky, Sorry to hear about your son's car crash. I am happy to hear that he is OK, although he will feel the bruseing soon no doubt.Say ,HI for me and it's great he was not hurt to badly.Goodnight for now as I am at work.LOVE you vicky,your sis.Chris.
Thank God he wasn't in Germany!
My prayers are with the Rude and yourself, of course.
Dang kids are always scarin' the heck out of moms and dads. WHAT are they thinkin'?
gus
You said it, I saw them practically shovel some guy into a bag on the Autobahn outside of Frankfurt once.
Big shout out for your boy. I know the feeling - I have been in two mad wrecks, one of which nearly killed me. Aspirin, hot baths, and a couple fingers of the creature if he's old enough.
Agape
Son Of Korah
Vicky, before I make a total ass out of myself by the rest of the post, I do want you to know that I am happy that your son was not hurt or killed in the accident. All of us as parents would gladly give ourselves to spare our children the pains that they incur.
A number of posters maintained that Jehovah personally took an interest in your son and protected him.
Then we had the post by Billy, I think, that was about her comforting a woman who's son had died in an accident.
Are we to conclude from this that your son was protected and her son was not? Is this the way Jehovah works?
This catapaults us back to an earlier thread, which I will not mention, but a huge division ocurred over some of the various positions that different members took.
What is the truth about your son's accident. What is the truth about the other woman who lost her son.
Did God take and interest in one and not the other, or perhaps, "Time and unforeseen occurence befall us all?"
I love the association that I have with many on this board, and I love many of the people who I feel have gone off the deep end of "God in everything", although I disagree with them, vehemently.
I truly, truly, truly, don't want to serve a God who sporadically picks who will live today and who will die. Because effectively, that is what we are saying if we believe that God delivered your son and not the other woman's son.
Both sons are beloved to their mothers.
I sincerely cannot handle dissonance as part of my belief system, thanks in part to Isomam's review of it.
The only way I can live now is to accept that S*** happens. Where you are standing is what controls how much of it splatters on you. Now, sometimes we court trouble, and end up standing in the wrong place by choice, for example, I ride a motorcycle. I know it is more dangerous than riding in a car. But when someone HITS me and kills me or MISSES ME but scares me, I am not going to post on this board that Jehovah protected me today.
Jehovah's protection was to give me a brain that made it so I understood that riding motorcycles was dangerous. When I decided to take on the risk, the protection ended. Hopefully, understanding the risk, I will drive more carefully and be more watchful. That would be a degree of protection based on my respect for life toward Jehovah.
And if the MISS is not a MISS, and I am dead, I don't want anyone to think that Jehovah took me. That is the natural conclusion to thinking that if he protected me argument.
So, all, save your prayers. Pray that Vicky and her son will be able to face their future knowing that divine protection is not the order of the day.
That is my prayer.
Brant the Ass
You're not an ass, my brother Brant. I admire you greatly for saying what you mean and not hiding behind words. You always lay all your cards out on the table - nothing to hide. Truthfulness and straight-forwardness mean a great deal to me, and I love and respect you for yours. :friends:
Bad things happen to good people all the time. My prayers' intent is for God to help strengthen us so we don't lose our faith in His love when bad things happen to us or those we love - and they will and do happen often. No one lives a charmed life with an angel riding on their shoulder - no one. Even sickness and death will befall us all regardless of our faith... but faith that Someone does care helps us through it.
Much love from Willa
There are many things that are hard to understand. I know when my father died at 44 it made no sense to me and even tho I was not mad at God I did go through a period of time where I felt very angry about it and how unfair it felt. I knew a gentleman in the Nursing Home where I was working who was and had been a really pretty awful guy all his life--he'd beaten his wife forever and broken the bones of some of his kids--just an unusually violent guy who was turning 84 the same year my dad died at his young age. I so wondered why and how things could be this wrong----my dad never hurt anyone and never turned down an opportunity to help anyone. I remember a night one of his workmates showed up at our house for a visit along with his wife and they were both drunk. Dad sat outside in their car with them for a long time talking and visiting out there so they wouldn't be drunk in the house around us but he still couldn't be rude to them either and send them away. (I could talk about my father for a really really long time :love: )I do feel this scripture explains an awful lot of life and it isn't about being fair--it is the original way of saying ''it is what it is''. I accept these words and feel at peace with this explanation--even for my father who was gone long before he should have been but who lives on --and on--in the memory of the family he left behind..........
''I returned to see under the sun that the swift
do not have the race, nor the mighty ones the
battle, nor do the wise also have the food, nor do
the understanding ones also have the riches, nor
do those having knowledge have the favor; because
time and unforseen occurrences befall them all.'' Ecc: 9:11