I've always made it my mission to become a better person everyday, but May 10, 2014 was a definite game changer for me....it was the day I gave birth to my beautiful daughter, Lauryn Ailehs!
I've always known that with change comes great responsibility and tests! This morning was a reality check for me. As I was driving my daughter to school (daycare)this morning, we were "almost" run off the service road by a lady who was a complete idiot and/or an extremely impatient individual. Now, let me be real...the old me, the firecracker I use to be, probably would have given her a piece of my mind and then some...but it's not about me anymore! Instead of reacting first, and thinking later, my motherly instinct kicked in. I automatically thought about that little life that was in my back seat.
Don't get it twisted, the Momma Bear in me came out front and center! But I was able to think and act rationally. Once I got to the school's parking lot, I immediately looked into my backseat and saw that my sleeping beauty was ok and had no idea about what had just occurred. Once I turned back around tears started to fall from my eyes. I was mad, nervous, pissed and so many other emotions that there aren't even words for.
One of my daughter's teachers arrives and she gets out of her car singing an old church hymn and she taps on my window and I open the door for her and she says, "Good morning," in her cheerful voice. With tear filled eyes and a cracking voice, I responded to the greeting. I told her what occurred and her response was, "God blocked it...think about the what if!" And instantly, I felt better! Those words alone reminded me that, as the Lyfe Jennings' song says, "It could have been worse!"
I know that my life is not my own, that it is He who protects me...and for that reason I can still smile!
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