Kidslife | by Clayton Hurst
Wednesday, March 10, 2010
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It was early morning on a cold, wet Monday in mid-January. My oldest daughter and I were sitting in the car waiting on my wife. We were about to leave for what would be our last scheduled doctor’s appointment before my second daughter was to be born.
As we waited, I decided to listen to the weather report on the radio. The weatherman predicted ice and colder temperatures on the way for later that afternoon.
When my wife got into the car I turned to her and my daughter and said, “Hey, the weather might be getting bad. Let’s pray before we go.” I grabbed their hands and prayed a simple prayer for protection over us and then we were on our way.
Everything went great at the doctor’s visit, and we would be expecting our second daughter any day. We left the doctor’s office and headed towards the church. That afternoon we had planned a Kidslife video shoot and needed to get there early to make preparations.
We drove past the hospital where my second daughter would be born. As we looked out the window of our car, my wife and I began explaining to our daughter the excitement to come and what the plans were for that big day.
In the midst of our excitement we heard a loud crash and soon screaming filled our car. While we were driving under a bridge that was under construction, a huge piece of wood fell off the top of the bridge and was headed right for us! Strangely it seemed to be flying toward us in slow motion as it landed on the edge of the hood and then onto the windshield of our car. The impact sent our car, inside and out, into chaos. In an instance, there was glass everywhere and crying mixed with screams abounded.
Fortunately, there were no other cars around and we were able to guide our car to the curb in the midst of the craziness. I turned to my nearly full-term pregnant wife to make sure she and the baby were okay. Even though her eyes were filled with tears and her lap filled with glass, she was able to communicate that she was fine but her nerves and emotions were shot. My daughter was nearly at a point of hysteria, but after some coaxing she was able to calm down once she realized we were all going to be okay.
Sitting in the car on the side of the road that cold January morning, I was reminded about the prayer we had all prayed sitting in the garage at our home. I quickly turned to my daughter, who was down to a small sniffle, and asked her if she remembered what we had pray earlier. Wiping the tears away from her eyes with her shirtsleeve she nodded her head up and down. I asked her, “What did we ask God to do?” she said, “We asked God to watch over us and keep us safe.” In an attempt to help her process the actions of the previous few minutes, I began to explain to her what we needed to do next. “Sweetheart,” I said. “God heard our prayer and He answered it. We need to thank Him for keeping us safe!” We spent the next few minutes thanking God for keeping us all safe and turning a potentially bad situation into a lasting, impactful testimony for our family and others.
Our favorite scriptures for parenting has always been Deuteronomy 6:5-7. As parents, we want to do everything we can to help our girls love God with all their heart, soul, mind, and strength. And as verse 7 says, we want to impress this on our children in every situation, and talk about our amazing God everywhere we go.
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