Speaking of Blessings..Live every day to it's fullest..

A little testimony for today that correlates with the title of our blog..
For those of you who may not know Chad's story..Coming up in a couple of months will be the 1 year anniversary of Chad, my husband's, accident. Chad works for an extremely blessed excavating company, with an awesome boss, who is a God fearing man, thank God!! Last July, I was getting ready for a garage sale with my friend who lives up the road, and I vividly remember, that morning, Chad kissing me goodbye and saying "I love you". I do not always remember that! Especially, having a 5 mo. old and I was probably up with her at least once that night! However, I remember that particular morning, him doing that..God was preparing me for that afternoon..so all that morning, I had that in my head, "Boy I feel so loved today..I'm so lucky, I have a loving husband, gorgeous, healthy babies, and I can remeber telling my friend when I got to her house "Jenny, I just feel so good today, so loved" and told her it was going to be a great day and I was so lucky! About an hour later, as we were emptying my van, Jenny gets a phone call ( my phone was in the diaper bag in the van still). I noticed that she was highly stressed but continued to unload garage sale items into her building. She then brings over her phone and says "it's for you"..Chad's boss on the other end telling me I need to get to St. Annes right away b/c he was in a serious accident..I noticed the nervousness in his voice and thought "you've got to be kidding"..I knew it was really bad..I said "Scott, how bad is it?" He paused and said, "They don't know if it's life threatening, they still have to get xrays (being in medicine, i know that you can die of internal bleeding within minutes) and at that moment, my whole world stopped..I couldn't hear anything, I could see my girls playing, and had flashbacks of like everything we had ever done together..I finally snapped back to reality and said "Can i talk to him?" Chad gets on the phone and he was crying, telling me to hurry and to bring the girls with me.."I just want my girls", he kept saying, "dont' take them anywhere, just bring them here"..so my friend took off work that day and we headed to st. annes, and for once in my life, my world was upside down..The first thing i did was called another friend to pray and to call the church and I called my dad..I told my dad what happened and said "Dad, you need to pray like you've never prayed before, b/c I cannot live without him".. Could you imagine your daughter calling you with something like that and you can't do a thing about it..He was so upset, found out later, called my mom crying and said "we gotta go, chad's hurt bad". When I finally got to the hospital, I found my husband lying in a bed, his head was so swollen, he looked like he should have weighed 500 pounds..He was buried in a ditch up to his neck and his boss had to dig him out with a track hoe..After many rads and testing, I wheeled him out of that hospital with only 6 fractures in his pelvis and a punctured lung..a week later, a gentlemen had died of the exact same incident..When I talked to Chad about the accident, he couldn't do anything but cry and say that "God wasn't done with him yet" and that the experience that they had with God that day was unreal..His boss told me at the hospital " I did not dig him out of that ditch"..I think we all know what that means..Very humbling experience..chad was annointed at church that sunday and 2 days later with still 6 fractures, a punctured lung, and only 4 days post trama, didn't hurt at all..amazing! So I guess, I've learned alot in this experience and just to say, girls, when your husbands tick you off, praise God that someone is here to make you mad!! Do not take your loved ones for granted EVER..you never know when it's the last kiss goodbye..When your children are driving you nuts and screaming and crying and you're exhausted..Praise God, you have children to drive you nuts and you're exhausted b/c the Lord has trusted you with His children!