Tender Mercy 6: A Car Crash

Hello Friends! This next real account comes from my best friend, Rose Johnson. Rose and I have been through a lot together, and have shared many similar but separate experiences. One would be car crashes we were both in a few weeks apart from each other earlier this year. It was zany that they happened like that; and we helped each other in the aftermath in the best way we could. Rose directly benefited temporally from the crash in a way she never expected. I know how hard the crash and the ensuing challenges were afterward, and to know that it ended up benefiting her as it did, well, it's truly a tender mercy from a loving Heavenly Father :)

I never knew how I was going to pay for my wedding when that time in my life came around. I often thought and even sometimes worried about it.  I worked hard at my job and was able to support myself as a single woman, however was never able to save very much along the way.  I always had enough for my needs though. I was always taken care of by my loving Heavenly Father.  This alone was a tender mercy.  However, one of the biggest tender mercies that he showed me happened in January 2015. 

I was driving on my way to work in my 1997 black Honda Civic, the weather was foggy; which I thought was neat!  I was about a mile from my home when a car came out of no where and slammed into me sending my car across three lanes of the road.  I came to a stop and was completely fine besides being shaken up.  My car I wasn't sure, but once I got out I could see the damages were more than just minor.  We called the police and did all the necessary procedures that follow when involved in a car accident.  After many, many telephone calls, it was determined that my car was a total loss.  The process was hard and I was discouraged at times because of the slowness of it all.  I never realized how much I depended on my car until it had been taken away from me.  After a lot of waiting, I received a check in the mail that would allow me to find another car and be able to put a down payment on it.  I was happy and I considered this to be such a miraculous blessing alone.  I had no idea that the biggest tender mercy was still yet to occur. 

I felt that things in my life started to get back to normal after my car accident and the routines of life were at a good balance.   I had been dating an amazing man since November and things continued to progress in our courtship.  We soon were engaged and I found myself planning our wedding! It was fun, exciting and a lot of work.  It was probably the half way mark during wedding planning when I realized that the car accident I was involved in January was paying for our wedding in July.  The check that I received from the insurance company was more than I expected.  I actually was able to put most of it in savings.  I felt completely loved by my Heavenly Father for providing a way that I could marry the man I waited so long for.  

My husband too was a tender mercy that was placed in my life. I couldn't have made it through this experience without him.  As I look back on the past year, I can now better see all of the tender mercies along the way. I know that our Heavenly Father knows of every need and worry that we have and provides ways for them to be met. I never thought a car accident would be a tender mercy, but in my case it was. 

Rose Johnson-happily married to my sweetheart since July 2015