Saturday 12th December

I am currently in Yorkshire visiting my Dad.   He picked me up from the airport which is a good hours drive away from his house and we set off up the motorway towards home at 80mph in a huge stream of rush hour traffic all doing the same.  It was 5pm and dark.  We were bowling along quite happily when all of a sudden about five cars in front of us a car in the outside lane suddenly veered across the traffic in the next lane - it was travelling at ninety degrees across the road before managing to straighten up and somehow nobody hit it.   I have no idea how nobody hit him.  There was a white van directly behind him which slammed on its brakes as did all the cars in all three lanes - but seriously, if I ever witnessed a miracle I saw one tonight.  Im assuming the driver had fallen asleep at the wheel or something.  Scary. 

Actually, thinking about it Ive seen another traffic miracle.  Sometime last year I saw a car directly in front of me come off the road on my side of the dual carriageway, cross the central reservation, slide over the opposite carriageway and come to rest in the hard shoulder on the other side of the road.   It all happened in a split second and I looked across and saw the driver with his head in his hands clearly in shock at the realisation that he was still alive.   So many lorries use that road all the time and the cars speed down the straights at 70.   A minute earlier or later and he would have been toast.  A minute.

How often do we lose the car keys just as we are about to leave the house?  Or the phone rings.  Or in my case the kids are still upstairs trying to find shoes whilst Im revving the engine.    How often do we get stopped by someone in the street who wants to chat or sell us something or ask directions?   Even those people trying to get you to claim for PPI mis selling can be used by God to give us that extra precious minute which might make the difference between ........  well, something and nothing.

I wonder if the angels were working overtime today on the A1.   Maybe even the same angels which sang at the birth of Jesus.   Those self same guys have been busy ever since that holy night - working for God to achieve His purpose on earth.  Im thankful that His purpose for me today was not to be involved in a multiple pile up on the motorway.

Heres 4 minutes of nostalgia for you to enjoy :)  Courtesy of Amy Grant
( now that takes you back a bit doesnt it? :) )  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M9xkn_z08GA