Life is an adventure

"Life is an adventure" is one of Mike Woodards sayings. (Mike is our National director of campus ministries, was our director for the Tanzania project and is my new boss.) Mike spoke at our New Years eve Banquet at c4c conference in Calgary (wohoo) and shared a few personal stories from his adventurous life, as a Christian. We were then challenged to write down a step of faith- something to trust God with. I wrote to have faith that God will provide for ALL my needs- specifically finantially, emotionally and physically.
The next day, January 1st, I drove to Winnipeg, Manitoba with my U of M friends- a mere 14 hour drive. Somehow I ended up driving my turn between Regina and Winnipeg- the part with the undivided highway. I was doing fine. Passing lots of cars and big trucks with bright lights didn't bother me, and I was getting used to the roads (so different from wet and rain and mountains and lots of turns). THEN, a big semi decided not to turn for the curve in the road, but to drive into our lane. The side of the highway was completely covered in snow, but I had no choice but to swirve onto the shoulder to pass the tuck. The car started swirving and went out of control. Then, out of nowhere, I decided to pull a 180 turn, which got us back into our lane, but the opposite way, and we backed into the snow bank. Completely shoked were we. (The sleeping beuties in the back seat had woken up a few minutes earlier by Jen taking a picture of them). Before we even got out of the car, a few cars had already stopped and one guy came out with a big shovel in hand. Carmen, who owned the car, wanted to know if she should call roadstar, but the man with the big shovel calmly said, "no, we'll get you out. no problem." And they did. There was no damage done to the car, and within 5 minutes, we were back on the road. We were so thankful for friendly Manitobans- yes, good thing we had already crossed into Manitoba.
Before Carmen started driving, we prayed (and cried) and thanked God for providing men to push us out of the snow bank- about 8 cars had stopped to help us.
God totally reaffirmed to me through this incident that he is totally in control and that I can relly on him to take care of ALL my needs. It was a scary incident, but we were calm throughout the whole ordeal because we knew that God was looking after us. And you know what? if you put your total faith in Him, you too can be assured that he will take care of ALL your needs.
Peace and grace be with you all.