All day yesterday I was feeling incredibly grateful for a number of things in my life. I was especially grateful for answered prayers. Throughout the day I was sweetly reminded of the good life I live and how blessed I am to have great people in my life. It was a great day.
I cross University Parkway every day on my way to and from school. As I was on my way back to work from school, after my first class, I was almost hit by a girl who wasn't paying attention and turned while it was my turn to walk. I hit the window of her passenger door to let her know how close she was to me, hoping that would scare her and the next time she'd pay more attention. I chuckled to myself as I finished crossing the street, thinking of the horrified expression on her face. Grateful that I wasn't hit, I went about my day, forgetting this close call, since it wasn't the first time something like this had happened to me at this intersection.
As I was leaving campus after my last class of the day, it was about 8:45p.m. and starting to rain. I came up to the same intersection that I previously mentioned. I was the first person in my lane and I saw people getting out of their cars and traffic was stopped. There was a car parked in the middle of the intersection. It took me a second to figure out what happened, then it clicked when I saw a body on the ground. Someone had been hit. It looked like the girl who was crossing the street was crossing at the same cross-walk I had been crossing just hours earlier. As I studied the scene, put the puzzle pieces together, and talked with other witnesses, I realized the girl had been crossing the cross-walk on the other side of the street, about 50-feet away. I won't go into any more detail of the things I saw.
I'm a firm believer that if you want to say something, say it; if you want to do it, do it. You never know what could happen in the blink of an eye. This poor girl was just walking across the street with her groceries. My heart hurts for her, her family, and the man who hit her.
