God Watches Over Me

Thursday night three of our calves busted part of the fence and got out on the highway. Our highway is well traveled and cars usually go by at 70 to 80 miles per hours. We immediately went out to try and gather them back in. I spotted two of them by the side of the road. I stopped on the highway with my flashers on and was going to direct them back in towards the field and away from the road but there was a car coming toward me. I stood in front of the headlights of my vehicle waving wildly trying to stop the driver long enough to tell him there were calves close to the road and to proceed slowly after I got them back into the field. The driver ignored me and swerved just in time to avoid hitting me. He went around me and accelerated and hit one of the calves. The calf flew over both lanes and landed in the opposite field. He got up once and then fell back down. He died a half hour later. There were other people luckily, who saw me try to stop him and saw him almost hit me as he went around me and accelerated. I was so very lucky that the car didn't hit me. The driver was issued a citation for failure to reduce speed. God was watching over me. Even in the lowest times in my life, I have always been aware that without God's intervention, it could have been much worse.