Last night we were coming home from a night of dancing,and came upon a really bad wreck, a young man, had flipped his jeep, several times and his car was on fire.
We must have just missed the wreck, because there were two cars there that saw it and they didnt know what to do......I told my hubby as we stopped to see if anyone had called 911 yet, and asked him to ask if anyone needed first aid. I am not in the medical field but I know enough first aid to help until the EMT arrived. They said yeah, and so I jumped out and crossed the road,,,,,,, then the car started to really catch fire and one man pulled the man our of his car.
The man , looked just a little older than my son, so I keep saying boy,,,,,,,,was in alot of pain, but amazingly he only had a gash on his forhead, and wasnt bleeding profusly. I just sat in the tall grass in that ditch and held his head and neck stable so he wouldnt injure it worse. He was in alot of pain, I am pretty sure his left should was broken and he most likely had a neck and spinal injury because he was complaining of pain on his whole left side. But he was cohearant and knew what day, month, year, his name, etc.
He told me his name was Brandon and he had an exwife with a little two year old girl. He was dressed in the same style my son dresses, with a nice Fossil watch with an orange face, and a Fossil wallet. It broke my heart to see this boy this way, and I prayed he wouldnt have any permanant injuries. I thought of my son who is getting his first car in a few weeks and thought dear Lord, life is so short , please I beg I never have to see my son like this. I thought of this young man's family and how they didnt even know it yet , but that at least this kid was gonna live, hopefully he will not have any paralysis.
I saw blood running down his face and was just looking him over in case he was bleeding somewhere and didnt know it,,,,,, and I looked in his ears to see if there was blood in there, but all I saw was a pool of tears.
When the paramedics got there, my hubby had to help them carry the boy up the steep hill and I was holding the flash light , I noticed a book on the road among the several parts of the car, it was the book "what to expect when you are expecting" , not a book a young man would have you would think , but then again he said he had a two year old daughter. They told me just to put the book and his cut off bloody shirt back in his jeep and he could get his stuff later.
We got in the truck and headed home,,,,,,,,we talked about the fragility of life, the human nature we have to help someone in trouble. Even at our own risk,,,,,,, I mean we all ran to help him , and the car was on fire, but I know I didnt even think of that , it wouldnt have stopped any of us from helping him. It was just second nature. I believe in God, at least I mostly do, and things like this makes me feel that God put that love for life, to help each other in us, and to feel compassion for each other.
So many times, you would hear stories from the platform, saying that a young brother was out living a double life, and got killed in some kind of accident and they would say if only he would have been where he was supposed to be , maybe it wouldnt have happened. Or a brother didnt dropped the ball , so to speak and instead of being regular at the meetings the family missed alot. This was a true story they told at a circuit assembly. The brother let his little 7 yr old ride her bike that night they were too tired to go the meeting, so they missed it. The little girl got ran over and killed that night and the brothers sobbed , if only I had been at the KH , she would be in this chair right by me and not gone, it is my fault. It made me sick to hear this. This brother would be ate up with guilt the rest of his life and the brothers are making sure that he does feel guilty and they used it on the stage , this families tragedy to make us all scared to death to miss a meeting, for something bad might happen to us. The JW God , is do it or you will suffer greatly, and it is will be your fault not mine.
I am sure that is not how God sees people at all. This boy, was in pain, he had tears ,,,,,,, I have to feel that God is not so calloused as to say what the JW's would say , like they do on the platform all the time. I know if my son, had done something really bad earlier in the day and we got a call that he was in an accident,,,,,,, all of the days events earlier would disappear because I would be worried about his life at that point. I wouldnt be thinking ....... well he deserved it for being a bad kid. That is not love and that is what JW's teach.........they teach a God that is out to get you and pay you back for the bad things you do. You can never do enough for the JW God.
It's just funny how one incident like last night can help open your eyes even more of the self righteous thinking of JW's. I walked away from that crash and that boy, feeling good that we were there to help and feeling that even thou we were all strangers on that road , we were connected somehow. Our skin color, our age, our sex, it didnt matter. I really do think that we do have a humanity in us that maybe was put there by God, because it just comes out of us , without us even thinking about it ,,,,,,we feel complelled to do something without hesitation.
I just thought I would share this with you, and it was just an event that made me think , it made wonder about how God really sees us down here on earth.