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Around this time in my life I hadn’t really put too much thought into God—in fact I was actually mad at him because one of my friends had been murdered the night before his twenty first birthday, literally a couple of hours before.  He wasn’t even just a friend, he was my first boyfriend whom I had known for 6 years.

I got very angry and pushed myself away from anything positive and began to go downhill by surrounding myself with the wrong people and definitely doing the wrong things. So needless to say, I hadn’t really prayed much around this time.

I had decided to let a male friend of mine live with me which ended up being a huge mistake. We had dated in the past and I truly was just doing him a favor because he had nowhere else to go.  I explained to him at the beginning how the living situation was going to be and that he could live with me but he had to sleep in the living room and I would sleep in my room (I had a 1 bedroom).  Well, he had never gotten over certain feelings he had for me in the past and we ended up fighting constantly because I did not feel the same for him.  I couldn’t kick him out either because I again knew he had no one else to turn to.

So this one particular night I had gotten off work around 11 and saw he was sleeping and tip-toed to go in and change quickly to go meet some of my friends at a party.  I ended up waking him up and went right back into bickering with him.

So as I was on my way to the party I called a friend of mine and started to complain about my roommate and how much I hated our situation.  I was so into my story that I was speeding without really paying attention to anything I was doing.  I was going in and out of lanes and cutting off cars.  As I was starting to switch into another lane without checking first I realized I was literally a few inches from this car next to me.  It had been raining earlier that night so the roads were slick.  I quickly turned my wheel in the opposite direction causing it to go out of control.  It started going from side to side.  I was so scared but somehow just got into this mode where I somewhat knew what I was doing and turning the wheel in the direction the car was going.

The next thing I knew my car had completely spun around and stopped on the freeway and faced oncoming traffic.  I sat in amazement as I realized that cars had all stopped perfectly in a line right in front of me—a perfect row as if there was a wall right there between us.  God had put his hand in front of my car and they all stopped.  I was shaking realizing that I was beside two cars earlier and they were so close to me yet I hadn’t one scratch on me or my car - I will never forget that.

Although I had turned my back on Him for the time being, he never turned on me. :=) Praise be to God!