Angelic Special Ops

My family, particularly me and my siblings, seem to be a "bit" accident prone. Most people don't realize just how many close calls we've had. Over the years we've had power tool accidents, rock climbing accidents, cliff diving accidents, track injuries. We've been hit by trucks while walking, hit in face with softballs, fallen off bikes, been electrocuted, hit other cars with our own cars, and done numerous other stupid things that have resulted in ER visits (or should have resulted in ER visits if we hadn't been so embarrassed about what we'd done). I fully expect one or more of us to earn a Darwin Award. Someone's last words are sure to be, "Hey y'all, watch this!" Today we added yet another item to our list. My "little brother" had a blow out, hit a tree, and totaled his car this afternoon. Don't worry he is fine. Amazingly he walked away and with only very minor injuries. We've come away from every one of these accidents without permeanent injury and no one else has ever been hurt in them either. After many of these incidents people will say things like, "Oh you must have had an angel looking out for you." Usually those things aren't said as if they are believed, but more used as a nice phrase when people don't know what else to say. But I don't think we should discredit the possible truth of the statement. My family has had far too many close calls to attribute our survival to chance or coincidence. In many of these cases we should never have walked away. With each of these events I become more and more convinced that there are angels protecting my family. As a matter of fact I wouldn't be shocked if God had commisioned a whole Angelic special Ops fleet to keep an eye on the Staggs kids. I'd say we're pretty much a full time job. Okay so I'm not so full of myself to think that my family should have our own fleet of angels, but I can't discount the fact that God has certainly had his hand over us.

It's pretty hard to deny the existence of God when your life and the lives of those you love would have been forfeit if it wasn't for his intervention.