Yet another great Becky day...Worth reading

So I got up and showered this morning then decided to run out and get my car warm while I got ready....Well the trouble with that was that my car wouldn't start. Well the good news is that I found out early...So I went to try and figure it out (yeah go ahead and laugh at that, cuz I know so much about cars) but I figured I had a dead battery. My terminals were pretty corroded and it wasn't turning over enough to actually start. Well I didn't really know for sure so I went and woke Josh up to help me. He said it was my battery and of course we don't have jumper cables...Dad and mom have both of them in their cars. So Josh told me to take his car. He's such a nice brother!

So I'm going down the highway headed to work, already running about 10 mins late and Josh's car starts revving and won't accelerate. Yeah, keep in mind that it's 8:30 in the morning so there's still a lot of morning traffic, so I get it to coast as far as I'm able. And where am I at....on a bridge right pass Lake Michigan Dr. close to the Market Exit. So I'm thinking at least the festiva is a little car, I'm off as far as I can be and pretty much thinking I'm going to die. I can feel the bridge jiggle when cars go by and the big semi trucks are inches away from killing me. So I'm waiting for the tow truck to come and what happens...oh there's an accident behind me (yes because of me) An older lady hit the truck trying to get over behind me. So what I was hoping would just let me get over quickly was becoming much bigger quickly. So now we're blocking most of the bridge and just waiting for the police and tow trucks to come. Well the ambulance came to take the older lady to the hospital to make sure she was ok and the police woman came to do the report. Well I told her I was waiting for the tow company. Well that wasn't quick enough so the firemen (yeah we had them all out there) pushed me and the car up to the exit (about 1/2 mile away) so I'd be out of the way. Then they just left me there. The highway was backed up so far they ended up shutting the on-ramps and stopping other traffic. Yeah this was so crazy! There are of course more details but I'm not gonna leave it all on here.

Oh yeah and I was supposed to be working...it's now about 10:30 by the time the tow truck got to the car. It took forever! So then my mom took me to work. I think it was shortly after that when I finally made it to work. Scott was so kind to me about the whole thing too. It made me all the more thankful for my job!

So when I get home, Katie was here to cut our hair, then it was back to working on my car. I called around to see who was still open to go buy a new battery from. Auto Zone was the only one open still so I went to get a battery from them. And I put it back on my car myself, but there was still no connection. I was so confused...so the boys go out and are looking, trying to tighten the connections...still nothing...then I look at the terminals and I see that I didn't take off the cap from the negative. yeah that would be the problem. (but at least I figured it out myself). We got my car up and running to figure out that I have no gas in it...oh man seriously I'm thinking this is the craziest car day ever!

I am so thankful for the safely of God's protection this whole day. It made me stop and think there's one more thing I take for granted. God protects me each and every day from so many things and this really puts it in perspective again! I have been thanking God all day for all the little things. God is good ALL THE TIME!