| I have always believed in miracles. Every time one of those little events happen in which things just seem to come together "supernaturally," or something that seems just a little too good to have been constructed by human design occurs, I try to recognize it as God's doing. However, I think you can only truly appreciate miracles once your life has been saved by one. Yesterday, getting hit by a Nissan Sentry in a crosswalk near FUHS at a speed of somewhere around 30 mph, I rolled up the hood of the car, made a considerable dent in the windshield, then went flying about 6-8 feet and rolled several times along the asphalt. I came out of this event relatively unscathed- aside from some soreness and abrasions on my left knee and elbow, I was fine. No broken or dislocated bones; not even a hairline fracture. I realize that people do often come out of being hit by a car alive, but what makes this a miracle is that, despite the severity of the impact, I'm essentially fine. Most out of the ordinary in all of this is the fact that the dent in the windshield, according to the police report, appears to have been made by my head, but there is absolutely no injury to my head at all. No bruise, no concussion, no brain damage, basically no sign at all that my head ever made contact with the car. The nurse practitioner that saw me at St. Jude Hospital said it seemed most likely that the dent was made by my elbow, but to have made a dent that large with an elbow as spindly as my own would have likely shattered the bone. Basically, whatever part of my body made that dent should be damaged far beyond the level it is. So I have no doubt it was a miracle. The firemen, policeman, the doctor, the paramedics... all of them were fairly shocked that I was this resilient to such an accident, and honestly, I am too. I'm not the bulkiest or strongest in frame, but there was something aside from my own strength protecting me in all of this, and I'm sure it was God. I hope this incident will inspire faith in those I tell about it as much as it has in me. |
