Deer

As you can imagine, we have tons to do. Our lists are long and we are chipping away at them.

Yesterday we were again reminded that God is taking care of us. We were driving to go to our language lesson about 25 minutes away. It was a beautiful sunny autumn day. We were driving on a local road going about 57 mph. It was a fairly residential area, so not in the middle of woods or forest preserves.

Right as I said, "45" which indicates to Erik that I feel we are going too fast, we see a deer to our left. He starts running as if he is going to cross the road - right in front of us. Erik SLAMS on the breaks - the kind of slamming that causes a huge loud screeching sound of tires on the pavement. Sure enough, the deer runs right in front of our car and would have made it to the other side before we got there, except - HE TRIPS and FALLS! No joke! So then Erik has to swerve to the left into the oncoming traffic lane.

We did not hit the deer.
And no one was coming the other direction.
And no one was close enough behind us to hit us. (They would have.)

God took care of us. We burst out laughing right afterwards. I mean, this deer just fell down in front of us. Once we knew we were ok, we thought it was hilarious. I congratulated Erik on his great driving. We felt so taken care of. I can't imagine adding an injury or a car repair to our list right now. It was nutty. Silly deer.

Thank you, Jesus. Protection again!