When God Has You on Lockdown

God has me on lockdown!  My cable went out the day before I went on vacation, and the earliest I could get someone out for service was four days after my return, so I’ve been home with no television. Not even the local channels can be picked up. To add insult to injury, the client that I was taking care of decided not to use our services anymore, so I came home to no job assignment.  Oh it didn’t stop there!  I also lost control of my vehicle when it hydroplaned upon my return home.  Thank God I was not hurt and no other vehicles were involved.

Sometime God needs to shut you down to draw you closer to Him. Needless to say, I have been doing a lot of reading, writing, meditating, and watching DVD movies.  Talk about Reframing Your Picture, the title of my latest book, and turning negatives into positives, I have done a complete about- face as to what my week was supposed to look like.  I am not pressed or depressed about anything that has transpired.  I drove over 600 miles and was within ten minutes of home when I had the accident.  The average person would be upset.  As I look back over the miles and the way things happened, all I can say is, Jesus took the wheel!   It rained sheets of rain, with minimum visibility, about a hundred miles of the trip from Fayetteville, NC to Summerville, SC.  I crossed a number of bridges while it was not raining, and the sky was clear when I crossed all of them.  (Anyone who knows me knows that I am petrified of water!)  Also, because I was coming off a ramp, there was no traffic except the people behind me, and they saw me and were able to stop.  Once again, God has kept me.