I'm sure many of you may already know of our recent
incident but just wanted to give you an update.
For those who haven't heard, Jesse and I were
involved in a massive car accident on Friday May 5th
while traveling to Nashville, TN from Austin, TX for
my grandparent's 50th anniversary. Upon arriving in
Memphis, TN we encountered some stopped traffic and
had slowed down to about 2 miles and hour for the cars
in front of us. A large coachbus/motor home towing a
Honda CRV did not slow down at all and proceeded to
run up onto the roof and over our car, flipping us
into a oncoming semi-truck and then a Escalade and
then between the concrete road barriers resulting in
Jesse and I spending about 12 hours at the Memphis
Medical Trauma unit. Needless to say the car is
totaled but Jesse and I are miraculously alive and
safe. God TRULY blessed us and apparently is not done
using us just yet! There is NO WAY we should have
walked away and we literally walked away! I was unable
to open my door and Jesse was dazed and unable to
focuse on me telling him to get out but I was able to
climb over him and get his feet out of the car door at
which point he stood up and asked me what happened?
Jesse sustained some deep lacerations and two broken
ribs and doens't remember any of the accident. I
sustained some deep bruising on my arms, knees, and
shoulders. I am also dealing mentally with remembering
every second of being hit. Also lost in the accident
was Jesse's Taylor guitar as we were planning on
singing at my grandparent's anniversary party and a
few other small items (shoes, glasses, CD player). All
if this to say, please continue to pray as Jesse and I
heal and try to return to a normal work routine. We
have both made attempts at returning to normal work
schedules and quickly realized we weren't as healed as
we thought we were. Also pray as we begin to deal with
insurance comapnies and medical facilities wanting to
get paid (it has already begun!)
But I also wanted to take and opportunity to share
not only the miracle that we are alive but also how I
believe prayer played a big part! Immediately after
getting out of the car I knew we needed prayer for the
whole situation, physically and emotionally. I called
the first person who I knew could get a prayer chain
going and new many of the same people as me. I also
called my family who began praying. But what struck me
most while in Memphis was how God used the prayers of
total strangers! When I entered the X-ray lab on the
stretcher and the technician commented that it looked
like I was in a bad accident I began to tell her what
had happened. In stunned and tearful silence she told
me that they had gotten a call not to expect suriviors
from our car and she had begun to pray for us, not
even knowing us!. The next morning while at Walgreens
trying to get prescriptions filled the cashier asked
my mom, as I hobbled back out the to my parent's car,
if I was going to be ok. As my mom explained the
accident. The woman tearfully responded that on her
way home the night before she had seen our car and had
called her church to begin praying for us. As we
entered the impound shop on Monday the woman at the
desk tried to prevent my mom from entering to see the
car. My mom said she was fine to see it. The woman
responded with "Well I know one thing those two kids
know the Lord". Even after returning home I looked on
line to find a newspaper article and found a man's
trip blog where he was writing day by day about his
vacation. He mentioned seeing our car and "clearly
fatal" so I responded with an e-mail that we were ok.
He too had begun praying with his wife for us. God is
using this situation not only to show the power of
prayer in a real way to Jesse and I. But also to show
just what HE is capable of to those that maybe don't
yet believe. So please remember us in prayer but also
be encouraged miracles happen every day!

Much Love
Danielle

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