Past Lessons Learned

This week marks the 20th anniversary of the bus wreck that I wrote about last year. I am not going to go into all that again, but I wanted to share just a little something. I am doing Beth Moore's Bible study Believing God. This past week's homework had us going through different stages of our lives and discussing the ways that God revealed himself to us in those segments. When I got to the third fifth of my life (14-21), I had to deal with the bus wreck - how fitting that God would have me deal with that on the 20th anniversary exactly, huh?

Through that entire experience I learned a few things., but probably the biggest thing I learned was that God did have a plan for my life. I recognized - almost immediately - that I probably should have not been okay. I was sitting in the back seat of a bus that got rear-ended by a big truck. God left me here for a reason. And since that time there have been a few moments where I thought to myself, "This is one of things I needed to be here for. God saved me for this."

I also learned that God can comfort a soul that is in complete despair. This is so hard for me to put into the right words. I was saddened and shaken by this accident, yet I remember a poem I wrote not too long after the wreck that ended with "and I have learned that with God, I can". I may not remember this lesson everyday, but it is an important part of my life. I have clung to that lesson several times in the last 20 years.

I am anxious to get to the other stages of my life to see that God brings to mind. I am certain there are lots of ways I will see His fingerprints on my life.