The startlingly blue '67 VW Beetle was humming like a sewing machine. Autumn embraced the Ozarks with mild temperatures and low humidity. Cascades of gold, yellow and red billowed into the streets from every tree that day as he headed out on his usual Saturday morning sales trip. Appointments with prospective buyers conjured nearly believable dreams of a school bill stamped, "paid in full". Responsibility for his wife and unborn child weighed heavily upon his young shoulders as he rehearsed the sales presentation for the cookware "no household could do without".
The young man idly noted the eighteen wheeler loaded with creosote-treated fence posts coming to meet him.
"What's that hanging off the side of the trailer?" He wondered as the truck barreled toward him.
With horrified fascination he realized he was looking at the broken end of the chain that was supposed to be holding the load of fence posts on the trailer!
In the split second he had left, it dawned on him there was no place to go; no way to dodge the cascade of posts falling directly into his path.
"Jesus!" He screamed at the top of his lungs, instinctively diving to the seat beside him and covering his head.
Long moments passed as he awaited the inevitable impact of the many posts bouncing like jack straws in his lane.
When nothing happened he raised his head and saw his car was still slowly moving in his own lane without a mark on it! He had somehow driven right through the storm of posts coming at him! Not one had touched the little VW!
But isn't that often the way God brings us through yet another of life's perfect storms? Certain destruction looms ahead. There is no way over it, under it, nor around it...so we just go through it! Somehow, God pulls off another feeding of the 5,000 or a stroll on the water, or something or somebody that was dead comes back to life at His touch!
Don't give up on what God has spoken into your spirit. Against all odds you may yet prevail. Trust the Lord. He has a plan to get you through.
A fellow traveler,
Richard Orrell
