To be or not to be scared...

Carey and I went to Maurepas to celebrated the 40th birthday of our awesome friend Troy Lambert, also know as TL. We love this guy and when he asked us to celebrate with him, it was an easy YES! We hadn't planned on staying all night, but we ended up staying until almost 12:30. Needless to say, I'm going to mass later this morning than normal. I'm going to get on the treadmill, do a little work out, take a shower and then head to mass, all before going to watch the SuperBowl which I care very little about this year. "You're driving" Carey says. He didn't drink all that much but enough where he didn't want to drive so I take the keys and he and I, along with Seth, head back to Baton Rouge. We take the back way which was so fast compared to the way we normally go and on the way home, this LONG and WINDY Road, was definitely faster, but extremely dangerous.

You know Dad always told me to be careful on the road and although my answer was always "of course Dad" he would always say "it's not you that I'm worried about it's everyone else." For the first time in my life, I understood what that really meant. As we are driving down this long and windy road, the truck/car headed towards us is weaving back and forth, from side to side, and as he or she veered into my lane, I just started to say "Oh my God, Oh my God, Oh my God." Do I veer right and go into the ditch, or do I veer left into his lane with the fear that he would quickly swerve back into his lane and we hit head on. I practically saw my life flash before my eyes. I wasn't ready to die. I was so scared. I can't even begin to tell you how my heart felt at that moment as his/her headlights started to get closer and closer to us. It probably was only 5 seconds, but I tell you I haven't been that scared in a while. It was a different kind of scared. I just thanked God the entire way home because I just knew that car was going to hit us. My heart was pounding like it hadn't in a very long time.

So I guess my message really is to say 'Don't drink and drive, because when you drink and drive- you don't get hurt...someone else always does.' Then perhaps maybe they were text messaging? maybe they dropped something and bent down to pick it up thing? Thing we've all done before. We all have to be so careful behind the wheels of our cars...Those headlights are embedded into my brain.

I'm sitting here now thinking about that car. And it still makes me quiver.

I also, as I do daily, look around and see how truly blessed the Lord has made me. I just pray for all my friends and family and those who need to know God. I'm so thankful that He is a forgiving and merciful God. To be able to love the way HE loves us is just beyond what we can imagine. He has promised us a life with Him if we do His will and study His word. It's there for us, written down. We can't forget. We also can't forget to to ask for those things that we want, those things that weigh on our hearts. We just have to ask.