Just around the bend............

    Yesterday I was driving home and came upon a car accident. One of the cars had two elderly people in it and the elderly man was heading out of his car to see about the woman in the other car. Because I live on a high accident corner, I have seen so many people still in shock, stumbling around the road, and nearly getting hit by passing cars who wont slow down for accidents, I decided to pull over and suggest he get back in his car, and to check on all the people involved. After checking on everyone and trying to soothe the elderly woman, I left the scene when the paramedics and police showed up.
   I was dropping some things off at my house and then going on to the next errand. I went a back way so that I wouldnt have to navigate through the intersection of the accident, and the route I took brought me just a block up from the scene. I figured I would look down the street at the progress of the scene when I came out a block up from it...... to my surprise, the bend in the road totally obscured my view. To anyone turning onto or out of the street I was on, there was no sign that a pretty big , scary accident was right there, around the bend.
  The whispers I know so well came at that moment. This is what whispered in my mind........ "that is life. Right around the bend you never know what is happening. Sometimes the blessing you are waiting for is right around that bend, out of site but yet, so close, just so very close......... other times a tragedy is right around the bend..... you are happily and mindlessly driving around and then as you steer around the bend , there it is, something you dreaded or something you didnt even think to dread. Do you stay fixed on Me, so that you are ready to handle what may be around the bend? What about the people around you? Do you show them compassion, do you realize that from your vantage point their life may seem carefree and tragedy proof, and yet right around the bend, right out of your site , they might be dealing with things that are hard, that are fearful, that are heartbreaking?
  When you are in the midst of your own 'car wreck' do you realize or remember that right at the next block things will be ok again, and that you will be able to continue on down the path of your life? Or do you only see that wreck right there and think that I am not with you , watching over you, helping you? When you are before the bend, where no bad things are happening, do you remember the times I brought you through the wrecks in your life?"
   So many things are right around the bend..... blessings, accidents, places where life seems to be one big 'smash 'em up" , but our paths are ordered and if we keep our eyes on Him we will be ok, before the bend in the road, at the scene of  the accident and further on down the road..........