Disaster. Christmas day we were taking a large load of scaffolding from the building site back to the builder about 100km away. We were doing it on Christmas day because Samuel's family lives up in Lismore where the house is being built and Cynthia's family lives down south near the builder. Dumb idea. It was raining and coming down a hill Samuel lost control, we left the road and slammed into a large camphor laurel tree, rolled and finished up upside down on the road. By the grace of God, we all lived. I am still a bit surprised. We all climbed out of a rear window that had smashed and hugged in the rain with blood running down onto our clothes. Its a hard road sometimes.
As you can imagine, the whole thing has shaken us up a bit and rattled our nerves. We look to God for strength and wonder sometimes at how to go on. Samuel feels pretty bad about this. Just for your interest, we actually really loved this car. Samuel used to make his own fuel for it - yep, it was a veggie oil car. Samuel would filter out the chip crumbs and pour the veggie oil straight into the 2nd fuel tank. We had many great adventures in this car. But I have learnt that we should be thankful for what we have got and not be too sad about what we have lost. I am so thankful for my beautiful and courageous family. Hallelujah.
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