Tuesday, March 13, 2012

Just an Accident


It's never a good thing when you wake up to a neighbor pounding on your bedroom window at 5:30am.

It's also not a good thing when a truck drives into your neighbors house.


Thankfully, everyone is fine...including the driver who lost control.  Sadly, after hitting the house (hard, I might add), he threw the truck in reverse and backed into (and over!) another neighbors car.

Crazy.

Since I was up, I decided to head out to visit crossing guards in a nearby city...threw on my favorite work shirt (really...it's comfy and baggy and helps me remember my name) and my closed toe shoes and headed on out, where I was promptly told off by the first crossing guard I met.

And a happy morning to you, too.

(and if you don't wanna be a crossing guard...then why oh why are you?)

=0)

A weeks worth of groceries or one tank of gas?

I wish I had the freedom to choose, but I don't...so I'm going to smile and make the best of it.  But I might be grumbling behind the smile.  FYI.

It's chilly in SoCal this week...or at least 60 something feels chilly compared to that teaser of 80 somethings we had last weekend.  Changing the clocks has me ready for Spring...for warm toes and fingers,  for longer days,  for open windows,  for that guy that I like so much to be around a little bit more,  for the tomb to be empty.

This Lent is proving to be a powerful one for me and I am thinking that part of that is (gulp) an age thing or that maybe it's because my relationship with my Savior feels so intimate right now....so deep.  Maybe because last year at this time life seemed so rough and jagged and during Lent I clung to God...clung in a desperate sort of way.  Alex told me last night (as he was reading over my shoulder)  that he felt that way, too.  I actually wanted to shake him and say 'why oh why oh why!!!!!' but I bit my tongue and just told him that I was just happy to know that God was a life preserver for him, too,  during those long dark months.


7 comments:

  1. This is a very Personal post for our family, as you know! (one neighbor who shares our walls and the other, our own son, who now needs to find & finance another car!) He said the house boomed and shook at 6am!

    Hopefully no other 'crashes' in the neighborhood - as in relationships or lost jobs?! All the more reason to be prepared by trusting Jesus daily...

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    1. Since it was a WVA employee...they should give them a rental car!! And Leif was so gracious...his first thought was to the driver and making sure he was ok. You have raised a nice son! =0)

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  2. This is a very Personal post for our family, as you know! (one neighbor who shares our walls and the other, our own son, who now needs to find & finance another car!) He said the house boomed and shook at 6am!

    Hopefully no other 'crashes' in the neighborhood - as in relationships or lost jobs?! All the more reason to be prepared by trusting Jesus daily...

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  3. OK, I have two questions:
    1) was the driver drunk?
    2) why is it these crossing guards are always yelling at you when you are their boss?

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    1. Hey...I just figured out how to reply to comments! Woo Hoo! (doesn't take much to make me happy...)
      1) he fell asleep at the wheel
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      2) sigh. because all their niceness goes to the kids and I get the grumpiness. =0)

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  4. Ouch! It will take a while to fix the house. Someone ran into a house a few blocks over from here, and it's taken months. (windows,siding, front door, mailbox, trim, and I imagine drywall, painting, etc). Maybe we should all get rid of cars and ride horses instead.

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