Living a Slow Christian Life
AMEN PODCAST
Alex and Lokelani Wilson
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🗓️ 5 December 2024
⏱️ 10 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, what's up, Alex here. When I was in fifth grade, I got hit by a car. I was riding my bike to school. |
| 0:05.9 | And this college kid was coming in his yellow Jeep with a bull bar on the front. And it was early in the |
| 0:11.5 | morning, so the sun was in his eyes right after sunrise. And he turned into me as I was crossing |
| 0:17.2 | the street and knocked me a couple of feet. And I blacked out. My ankle was sprained. |
| 0:22.9 | And the EMTs, they show up with the ambulance and they called my dad, call my mom. |
| 0:27.8 | My mom was, I think, had a Bible study or something. |
| 0:30.2 | And then my dad was kneeling by his bedside praying like he did every morning. |
| 0:34.2 | So he let the phone just ring and ring and ring. |
| 0:37.1 | And so many times that they just |
| 0:38.4 | put me in the ambulance. And right when they were putting me in, my dad showed up in his pajamas. And I have |
| 0:43.3 | just this vivid memory of all this happening. Just I remember going to the ER. My principal showed up. |
| 0:49.7 | And I thought I was dreaming that, but he actually didn't show up. I went to a small school and so it was nice of him to do that. |
| 0:56.2 | And I even remember the college kids' parents going for a morning run and stopping by our |
| 1:02.0 | house weeks later on the run to apologize for their son hitting me. |
| 1:07.3 | And I remember asking my parents, why didn't you sue them? |
| 1:10.2 | I don't know how I knew about suing in fifth grade, but I was parents why didn't you sue them I don't know how I knew about |
| 1:11.1 | suing in fifth grade but I was why didn't you sue them and my dad just told him like that's just |
| 1:16.3 | not the way of the kingdom you know he made a mistake he's a college kid and I was mags I wanted a new |
| 1:21.0 | bike you know but if I was in a hurry that day because my parents could have dropped me off. |
| 1:28.1 | Many times on the way to school, |
| 1:30.1 | they did drop me off. |
| 1:30.9 | It was a faster way to get to school, |
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