You know alot of times I think that I take for granted what all God has given me. I get to busy with work, to worried about how clean my house is, where I need to be when and I could go on and on. I get busy and in turn leads me to be somewhat short with people ...people I work with, people I love. I had a discussion with my husband on Friday night and it made me realize maybe I did need to stop and listen and look for things that will make life happy not for things that are wrong.
That same night something extraordinary happened to me....well actually the extraordinary thing happened almost four years ago. Going back four years to the night is a day that will always be special to me for many reasons. Todd and I were going out to dinner(or that is what I thought later I found out it was a lot more than dinner). We had gone to my mothers to drop off Miranda and were headed out of her neighborhood to go to dinner. As we were leaving there had been a wreck at the entrance of her neighborhood. I saw two vehicles, one vehicle was similar to a pathfinder type vehicle and the other was like a Gran AM or a something similar. The car had two people in it a Man and a child. The other car had a middle aged lady in it. The man had turned in front of the lady and hit her. The man and child appeared unhurt so I immediately went up to the lady's car to see if she was okay. She was conscious but had a leg injury. As Todd and I started checking she more than a leg injury her ankle was pretty much severed from her leg. It was horrible looking(I only looked once and then made Todd look from there on out).
The lady was so calm. I have never seen anything like it in my life. She was in a state of shock so it appeared calm when really it was so much more. Todd went back to my mom's house to get some towels while I stayed and talked to her and tried to keep her calm and awake until the paramedics arrived. The lady was trying to get in touch with any of her daughters and none would answer. It was very disheartening for me to know she needed her family so bad and couldn't find any of them. Once the paramedics arrived it was determined that she would need to be air lifted to the Med for medical attention. The paramedics told me that they could take none of her personal belongings with them. What??? What was I going to do with them...her I was did not know this lady at all and had pretty much had her purse and everything that was in her car with me! OH MY!! Todd and I decided that we would go to the Med and at least try to find her family and give them her belongings. We get to the Med and after a while of looking and talking we finally found one of her daughters. I pretty much just gave her daughter the purse, talked to her for only a minute or two as she was upset and trying to get in touch with other family members. I told her we would be praying for her mom and left.
Todd and I went to dinner...it was a fabulous dinner at Houston's. The food was phenomenal! I loved every bit of it. After dinner Todd said let's go riding around....Riding around?? it was getting rather late for that...but okay...he took me down by the river to the River Front Park. It was a beautiful but humid August night. As we were sitting on the bench by the river he talked about how I was raised in Vicksburg by the river and now leave near Memphis near the river. It was so sweet all the things he said. He then proposed to me! A night that changed my life forever. The person that I was supposed to spend the rest of my life with had proposed. Off course I said yes!!!!
This was one of those nights in my life that will stay embedded in my mind forever. It was full of so many emotions.
I thought of the lady in the wreck many times and wondered how she was. I knew the lady would never remember me b/c she was in a state of shock. If only the lady knew how she had touched my life. To see this lady so hurt and to be so calm. She was beautiful...I remember thinking how lovely and composed she was. I somehow felt like I had know this lady all my life.
A year or more later I received a phone call....it was the lady. My how excited I was to hear from her. It was so nice! We talked for a long time on the phone that night like we had known each other forever. We promised we would get together sometime. Of course as all people know the schedules just never seem to work out. There is always something that keeps us busy.
Back to Friday night, after Todd and I had our discussion about how I don't take time to smell the flowers etc. ---we had a to run an errand and after the errand Todd suggested we go to this restaurant to eat dinner. So we did..very unplanned and spontaneous. We decided that it was such a beautiful fall night that we would sit outside to eat dinner. As we sat down this lady was sitting at the table beside us. Boy did she look familiar....was it the lady in the wreck? I felt unsure...I had seen pictures of her several times before b/c she is a real estate agent and we get her flyer's. This lady resembled her but I was just not sure. Todd and I were placing bets on whether this was the lady or not. How I had really waited for this day for so long. Todd and I discussed who was going to ask her if she was Bettie? I was scared to death. What if this was not her? This person would think we were just CRAZY!!! She was with two other people and I didn't want to just go and interrupt their dinner. They finished before us and were walking out...as they were leaving I said excuse me are you Bettie Britt? She said yes and I told her who I was....it was like a family reunion..it was the best feeling in the world to finally meet one of the people I look up most to in the world. I had watch this lady go through something so traumatic and survive with such pose, calmness and dignity that I had just grown to think of her as my own hero. She was a fighter and a survivor.
I was finally in the moment I had waited for --the moment seemed like forever coming. She is beautiful and is almost unlife like. She is just so down to earth.
After we got home that night I was thinking boy if she can take each day and find enjoyment so should I. As usual I have to say that Todd is right! He usually is and I usually won't admit it but here I go and I am admitting it!
God put me in those places at those times for a reason..the night of the wreck, the restaurant, the river, and Friday night I think once again my path was there for a reason. I needed to meet her and finally did!
God has been so good to me. I am so thankful for all the people in my life....especially God, my family and hero's! Without those people I would be nothing!!!!
Tucson 2017
8 years ago
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