Saved from harm by a tree :)

Earlier this week, my mother-in-law related a hair-raising story to her children. She had been at her cabin in Estes Park, in our beautiful, close enough to visit often, THANK YOU LORD, Rocky Mountains. She was with a friend and offered to drive home when he said he was too tired. Long story short, as often happens in the springtime here, it was snowing when they started home. She encountered a slick patch at a bend in the road and felt the car sliding out of her control. I'll let you all know that they are FINE before I say the car began spinning and wound up precariously off the road, saved from rolling down a ravine by a TREE! Mum and her family has said many prayers of THANKS over the past few days for God's wonderful care in placing that tree in just the right spot to stop a car. She said just a few inches to the left or right and the trees were too small to do the job.

Relating this story makes me think of another one from my childhood when I was also saved by a TREE! It was fall and we had gone to the mountains to see the aspens changing color in all their golden glory. My dad had a jeep and we had gone "off roading" to get a better view. My folks left me alone in the vehicle (I wasn't a baby, I was old enough to listen to and obey their orders to "sit still, don't touch a thing")just long enough for me to get into trouble. They were always in view and assured me they'd be right back. They were close by, but not close enough to prevent the thing that almost gave them heart failure. I figured out how to release the emergency brake and the jeep began rolling forward They saw this out of the corner of their eye and Mom says she's never seen Dad move that fast before or since! He wasn't able to stop the jeep, but he didn't need to. Before he got there, a tree in just the right spot had done it for him!

All this got me to thinking this morning about how as Christians believing in the saving power of Jesus Christ, we have all been SAVED BY A TREE...a tree that was formed into the cross on which God's only Son died for our sins, so that we can LIVE a life with Him on earth and for eternity in heaven. Pretty profound when you think about it, don't you agree?