No Good Deed Goes Unpunished

That was a statement from my mom while on the phone with me after my wreck this morning. I was working with the Army this weekend and on my way to my station I saw a wreck. There were no EMT's on site yet so I pulled over to help. I had pulled up alittle farther than I had anticipated and need to back up. I watched my drivers side review mirror and neglected my passenger side. In the process I backed into an abandoned car.

My first thought was that is was the car of someone who also stopped to help. I was afraid that if they did that there might be kids inside. Luckly there was a weeks worth of snow on the car.

I ran across the highway to see what I had, called my Sgt and told him what happened and just made sure that everyone was alright. The story of what happened to them was that they were in a semi's blind spot and the truck vered infront of them. They slid across the highway into a concrete divider. The front end of the car was smashed in, wind sheild completly broken out. One gentleman had a gouge above his eye, which made for a lot of blood. He also had some glass embedded in his head. Possibly broke his arm as well. The second gentleman had a nasty cut on his hand. All he wanted was a smoke.

As soon as everyone was fine and people were on site to help, I went back to my car to look at the damage. The entire passenger side rear was smashed in. The exact opposite location of where my mom had an accident in my car about a month ago. My insurance company to is going to love me.

I felt I was fine. Called my insurance and now have to wait till monday to find out when I can get my car fixed. It was not until I got home today though that I might have done some damage to my right shoulder in the process of the whole thing.

While waiting for my parents to drive with me back to their home I was trying to figure out what God was trying to tell me through this. In my mind I was doing the right thing, which I still know I was but God was trying to scream something to me. I think what he is trying to tell me is that I need to take care of me. I have been in the middle of a lot of different things this week. I am trying to save the world with all the knowledge I have been getting at school and it has all been a little over whelming. In the process I haven't really been thinking about some me and Jesus time though. I think he was tryin to tell me that, while I am out trying to save the world, if I dont watch it, I will run into something. This time it was just my car. My car can be fixed and I have the means to do it. Money is not an issue in this case. But I really need to start minding myself and where I am. If I am hurt, I am not really going to be of any use to others. Thanks for reading. Happier things to come....I know it.