Christ's Kid

I am a daughter of the Most High King... He is awesome and He loves me!! Praise God that I walk in His protection and love. Today, Ali, my cousin and I decided to go visit Hurricane Ridge... I love the penninsula and wanted to see it one last time before we left on our trip. The way up was way relaxed, we are all just talking and having a good time, we turn on the road that takes you up to the ridge and start hitting the curvey roads. Well we didn't even make it to the ranger station when this car heading down the mountain starts to swerve. At first he just jerks slightly to the left and to the right... then it gets more violent and he is more like careening out of control... our relaxed atmosphere is nearly untouched as we all watch this occur in disbelief. Being the driver, I was trying to decide what to do. When it was clear that he was coming for us, I decided to try and pull to the side and get out of his way. No major stress, no increase in speed, no slamming on breaks, I simply pull to the side. The kid pulls a 280/360 in the road and comes up our side, hitting my door. The impact was a lot harder than it felt. No shattering glass, no airbag, no real movement inside the car. Just a bump.

I vaguely heard Tim telling me "alright, let's pull over"... so calm... everything was calm... I was calm... he was calm... Ali was calm. I stop my car, keeping my eye on my rearview mirror, not really sure what to think. A minute or two went by when Ali was finally like "Corinna, are you ok?!" ...I was fine. "I can't believe how calm you are!" she says... I couldn't either once she said that... It didn't really hit me about what had just happened until she asked after my well-being. I get out of the car and the kid does too... he yells "are you guys ok?!" "Yea! Are you ok?!" I yell back. He said he was fine and he had lost control of his steering... he too was in disbelief. He goes on telling us what happened and exclaiming about how he thought he would end up in the trees for sure. Praise God he did not, praise God we did not. Ali told me to take pictures so I was thankful I had my mom's camera and I did... the kid told us his name, said his dad was on his way.. we traded information.. worked everything out... Then we spent three hours up at Hurricane Ridge just basking in God's glory.

It wasn't until we were on our way home that in a moment of silence in our car, Ali, asleep in the back; I turn to Tim and I say "Do you realize that we should be dead right now?" And he just emphasizes his agreement... that impact should have knocked us into the trees. If I would have done ANYTHING else.. we would be seriously injured... If I would have stopped my car, he would have hit us dead on. We barely felt anything and the more we thought about it the more we realized that God's hand had to have been right there... It was amazing.. What an awesome God we serve! I am His daughter and He is watching my  back. I'm not leaving this earth until HE decides haha!! Praise God!!

ALSO!!! MARISSA!!! Now that things are for the most part settled I can say that Marissa is our new addition to our Bahamas trip and I am so excited and so blessed to have her as an added member!!

Here are pictures of skid marks from the other car, and the dent he left in my door!