The true story of a man and his Porsche 944
15 minutes after she left my house in my Porsche, she called me back...
"Chris! Oh my goodness..."
"Chris I can't believe you let me borrow
your car! It's so fun, and its so fast...
I'm going to drop it off right after work"
I laugh, "Megan, don't worry about it,
have fun with the car.
I'm having fun in your car driving
around with the top down"
If anything should happen to it I knew exactly what I would get from the insurance company: $4,200 which is nothing compared to the 12,000 I have invested into the car over three years. It wasn't that the insurance wouldn't give me what the car was worth, it was that the insurance company wouldn't give me what the car was worth to me. They couldn't, to me, my 944 is priceless
I writhed in anguish, jolting me to my stomach on the couch.
Now in view was a Porsche emblem magnet on my refrigerator.
"NO! Not my 944!" I said and writhed again to my back
Now in view was a Porsche dicast model car
Ahhhh!
I didn't know what else to do, I didn't know where else to turn, but I knew someone would be there for me, someone who was right there and had never left my side...
"Dear Lord" I prayed quietly, "Please protect my car tonight. God, protect Megan while she drives, and other drivers around her. In Jesus' name I pray, amen"
This had an amazing power over me. I didn't expect my uncharacteristically high anxiety to dissipate so suddenly, but after that simple 30 second prayer....I was actually fine.
I was so relaxed, I realized the time and headed for bed.
I was dazed and confused, I did not know what had caused me to rouse so quickly, sitting straight up in bed.
I peered out the window and saw the Cabriolet in the street where I had left it.
However, a strong wind violently thrashed the branches of the tree in front of my window.
I thought a branch must have snapped for me to wake so suddenly.
I looked at my clock, 6:30 AM, way too early for me to get up, so I went back to bed.
9:30 AM Megan calls me in a frantic state,
"Chris! Oh my goodness! You will never believe what happened!" She said barely able to keep enough breath to utter her words. "What? What is it? What happend?"
"Your car, it's, your car!"
"..."
"This morning my aunt woke me up with a camera around her neck, she told me to come to the door to look at your car. I jumped up out of bed and followed her. In the hallway I could already see out of the open door, there was your car....and a huge tree! I felt so weak I almost fell to my knees and I started to get tears in my eyes. I never wanted anything to happen to your car!
I went out to see what had happened, the old tree in our yard had cracked and smashed down... right next to your car! Chris the tree is five steps from your front bumper, I couldn't believe it! Your car is okay! It's fine, it doesn't even have a scratch. I can't understand it! Your 944 doges trees Chris, it doges trees!"
"Oh my goodness...Megan that's amazing"
"I took 15 pictures of it-I couldn't believe it! It fell right there right next to it but there's not even a scratch!"
I told Megan about my bad feeling the night before, and about my prayer I said to God.
"You must have a good relationship with your God, because Chris, I can't believe it!
"I do Megan, I do"
She was still so shaken up by almost seeing my car totalled that she felt she needed to get the car home as soon as possible. She gave me the pictures she developed earlier at a 1 hour photo. They truly are amazing.
Below is a picture of the mud the tree splashed on the front fender. Absolutly amazing.
I wasn't as effected by it as she was though, as a believer in Jesus Christ I see things happen like this in my life an in my fellow Christians' lives all the time. They are modern-day miricles.
Odd occurances, coincedences that are too coincedental to be an accident.
Usually they are for people, miraculous healing, people coming home from the hospital that had the doctors baffled. I see this stuff happen all the time at church, but since this is a Porsche site I thought I would share this with other car lovers.
You can believe me, and these pictures you see, or you can go on denying the exisitance of a God. The God that created you, me, and this earth.
Luckily, he is a loving and forgiving God. He loves you even though you haven't spoken with Him in years. And He is ready to forgive you the very second you ask.
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God Bless
~ Chris
