I don't care if it rains or freezes 'long as I have my - wait, WHAT?

[ashling]

[font size = 2]Driver Says God Told Her ‘I’ll Take It From Here,’ So She Let Go Of Wheel; Promptly Runs Over Motorcyclist[/font size = 2]

While driving along the roads of Fort Wayne, Indiana, a car suddenly and inexplicably swerved directly into Oliveri. Police say the car not only ran over his bike, but also over Oliveri, leaving him badly injured on the road. The car kept on driving.
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The car ran over his midsection breaking all of his ribs on his left side, damaging his spleen, bruising his kidney and leaving him with road rash that covered much of his back and extremities. It’s amazing that he lived.

Oliveri and his fiance attribute his survival to divine intervention. Ironically, it’s that very excuse which the driver would later use as her defense.

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OH.MY.GOD.!

[antiquie]

1. OMG fer sure!

What God’s involvement was – if any – on that day will never be known, but Oliveri did have some very real guardian angels looking out for him – the flesh-and-blood kind. Thankfully, several retired nurses saw the accident and rushed to Oliveri to help. When they had him stabilized, they called an ambulance and he was rushed to the hospital.

Oliveri says he wants his story to be a lesson for drivers to watch out for motorcyclists. Another lesson might be that no matter what you think you hear, God drives those who drive themselves.

http://www.addictinginfo.org/2014/07/19/driver-says-god-told-her-ill-take-it-from-here-so-she-let-go-of-wheel-and-ran-over-motorcyclist/

[Populist_Prole]

2. Had a nutty relative

Real evangelical after she moved to the south. Always watching televangelists and such.

On a visit once back in the 80's, due to her flightiness and poor planning needed a ride to the airport and had no way to pay for it and nobody was free to bring her. We all frantically scrounged up whatever money we could ( and we were just barely above being certifiably poor ) from adult wallets, cookie jar emergency money, right down to little kids piggy banks. Got her a taxi and paid the driver.

She then exclaims: "You SEE how GOD takes care of me?"

I thought my step-father was going to wring her neck. We all still laugh and shake our heads about it today.

[lunatica]

4. Reminds me of something that happened to me recently

I was suffering from a kidney infection which had spread into my bone marrow. My supervisor realized I was in bad trouble and basically grabbed me by the hand and took me to the emergency room. Two hours later I lost consciousness for 24 hours and woke up in the hospital with an IV dripping life into me. Two doctors told me it would have killed me. I had not felt any pain but I had been getting weaker and more confused day by day and my supervisor noticed. She saved my life.

Three weeks later when I was able to go back to work someone said that thanks to Jesus I was alive. I responded as gently as I could that Jesus' presence may have been there but evidently out of the dozens of other Christian people who had been there only my supervisor heard him. So that's why I was thanking her.

I did not name names or attack a single person there, but my reasoning inferred that those who thank Jesus for everything may not be hearing or heading his message all that much. And my point was made when quite a few people told me they knew there was something wrong with me for a while before I was taken to the hospital.

I guess most people think Jesus should be the one to take action, not them.

[Populist_Prole]

6. Sounds like you tactfully made it clear that faith is only an abstraction

And it is. If a thousand people fawned over you and prayed for you till their knees were worn to the bone and their voices hoarse, your condition would have been fatal if not for the fact a person had brought you to a hospital.

There's a story I heard from work about an incident the happened long before I was hired. One of the employees there had a daughter that got very ill and had a really high fever. Others saw her and urged him to get her to a doctor right away. He kept procrastinating about how he was using prayer and how he trusted the lord etc. A person told him "OK, god made doctors, OK?". He finally did get her medical care but not before the high fever made his daughter's hair all frizzy and weirded out for some time.

[pipi_k]

3. Oh, for crissakes...

Do people really think God has eyes in the back of his head?


Turn him around. Give him a fighting chance for Petes sake!

[lunatica]

5. LOL!

Duzy!!