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My husband's fire department pager went off late that night, as it often does. It struck me as odd though, that our cell phone began ringing at the same time. An odd kind of eerie. A scared kind of eerie.
Our son was on the phone. He was in an accident, the accident that was coming over the fire pager. We struggled for a moment with what to do, should Jeff go to the accident scene or directly to the hospital? We quickly decided on the hospital.
How blessed and relieved we were to have our son home a couple of hours later with some compression fractures in his spine.
It scared me that he and his friends (who were in another car at the scene were so flippant about it. Did they not realize the danger? I begged the boys to please understand the gravity of the situation. I prayed that they were only treating this in such a casual manner in an attempt to appear manly. I explained to them that if they did not take this as a wake up call, there could be disastrous results.
My husbands firefighter pager went off late this morning, as it often does. Jeff was gone much longer than usual. I sent my son to the fire department to retrieve his father's truck so that he could use it to get to work. That is when our son discovered there had been a terrible accident. One of his best Friends was driving. The passenger had died at the scene. Someone from a second car had been taken to the local hospital.
Tyler struggled for a moment with what to do, should he go to the hospital or to the accident scene?
Ironically, the driver is one of the boys I had begged to understand the gravity of the situation. I write this before any determinations of fault have been made, I told my children it doesn't matter. There are a lot of people to pray through this, people whose lives will be forever changed in one moment late this morning.
My son's friends are gathering here as I write this, I am going to go and bake cookies for them now, as I don't know what else to do for such hurting, frightened young men. Now I must beg them not to let this all be in vain. Now I pray this will impact the way this group of young men make decisions for the rest of their lives.
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