I PRAISE YOU LORD FOR YOUR FAVOR

Lk 2:14 “Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace to men on whom his favor rests.”
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Saturday morning at 2:00AM, my son had awakened me to tell me that he needed to move my car away from a retaining wall in our parking lot, that had fallen down on all of the cars parked by this wall. The wall crushed 10 cars and stopped right where my car had been parked. There was a huge rock that should have hit my car, but ended up in the other parking spot with the car that had been damaged already.

If you look in this picture on Channel 9's website, you will notice a sign on the wall. Directly under the sign is where my car was parked.

www.wcpo.com/news/local/story/Retaining-Wall-Crushes-10-Cars/YZK6C9dtg0GZLcw2uZWwXQ.cspx

I feel as if the Lord had shown favor on me, and delivered me from this crisis. It is funny that people standing around in the parking lot, were speaking of how lucky that I was. One man even stated that he had saved my car by contacting my son to come move the car. I was thankful that someone had thought of me enough to tell me to move my car however; I had to chuckle inside, because that wall did not fall past where my car was. It was God who spared my car. When my son showed me the situation out the window the next day, he said you were really blessed. It warmed my heart that my son knows where his blessings come from. It was not his first reaction to say you got lucky Mom. I pray and ask you to pray with me that the insurance company will make this as easy, and as fair as possible for everyone involved in this situation. It had also dawned on me that some of these people had both of their cars destroyed. I was able to call of them and see if they needed something. It is important to remember that sometimes God spares us to spare someone else. This is how he uses us to help each other. That is what community is all about. Reaching a helping hand out to someone in need. I encourage you the next time God blesses you in any way, to let your first thought be, is there a way I can use this to bless someone else? Maybe there are also certain talents and abilities that God has given you, that He wants you to offer to someone free of charge. freely you have received, freely give.