Close-Call.

  I'm sure you've heard by now the fatal bus crash in Ottawa on Friday, where the double-decker bus crashed into the bus station shearing off the top half with 90 passengers on board, killing 3, injuring 26 or so, 14 of them critically. You also know our 19 YR old is at school in Ottawa.....and you won't believe this.....it's chilling.... but that's her usual daily bus route, the one she always takes and was originally going to take that day, at that time, that very same bus but decided not to, as she wanted to stop off for ice cream, so she got another one later, avoiding the accident and possibly saving her life!! Holy shit!! How's that for a close-call? When I first heard I thought they were just pranking me again but apparantly this time it's real! I was just shaken when I heard about it, how close it came, how it could have been her, should have been her, would have ordinarily been her,and she likes the double-decker buses too and always sits at the top.....where the fatalities and most seriously injured were......oh, my God....

  It just goes to show that prayers work. Mother's prayers work. My  prayers work. God listens. Our Guardian Angels do watch over us. You don't die until it's your time. Miracles do happen. There are no "coincidences."The Heavenly realm does intervene in Earthly events.God does love us and protect us. It reminds me of us during our fire 23 YRS ago: it was just after 11 pm, a time when normally I'd be in bed fast asleep(the fire started in my bedroom) but for some reason that night I oddly decided to stay up late and watch a movie, unusual for me, which ended at .....you guessed it......11 pm, and around 11:05 pm I heard the smoke detector blaring and went in to check on it.....and saw my room on fire. On any other day I would have ordinarily been in bed asleep and not alert and as likely to have reacted as quickly as I did and escaped.I know beyond any doubt that God has a plan for us, for each one of us. I also somehow survived 6 suicide attempts that just didn't seem survivable, given the amount of morphine and insulin I took,and yet here I am, a testimony to God's grace. God won't take you Home until it's your time and until He decides you're ready.