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The Unfolding

Unfolding Short Stories: "Ireland's life belongs to the Lord."

The Unfolding

Northwestern Media

Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

4.9867 Ratings

🗓️ 16 January 2024

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Summary

On a snowy April day, while driving through the countryside, Ireland's car slid, hit a fence, and flipped multiple times. Amidst the chaos, she braced for impact, fearing for her life. Miraculously, she survived without any serious injuries. 

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0:00.0

God's story, your life.

0:05.0

Unfolding short stories.

0:12.0

It was snowing one day in April as I was driving home through the country.

0:17.0

And as I got to the top of a hill, I realized that my car was going to slide and hit this fence.

0:23.8

And I was breaking and it wasn't slowing down and I just knew that I was going to get in a car accident and I was really scared.

0:32.1

And as I got to the top of the hill where the fence was, I hit the fence and ended up flipping my car and it rolled three

0:39.6

times down the road. I remember in that moment, I was so scared and I was watching a water

0:46.9

bottle fly in front of my face slow motion. It feels like it was the slowest thing I've ever

0:51.8

seen even though it only took a matter of maybe five seconds.

0:55.8

And I remember bracing the steering wheel

0:58.7

as hard as I could, trying to have the most perfect posture,

1:01.9

because I just remember hearing in my head,

1:03.8

like, my neck's about to break, my neck's about to break.

1:06.5

And I just kept telling myself that,

1:08.4

like, almost getting ready for the pain

1:10.7

that was about to happen.

1:11.7

And as my car stopped rolling, I kind of moved my legs, wiggled my toes, looked down,

1:20.6

kind of realized that I not only was alive, but my legs weren't broken. My neck wasn't broken. I was completely fine. I kind of looked

1:31.2

around on my glass covered body and realized that there was glass in my hair, there was glass on my clothes,

1:37.8

but there weren't any cuts on my body. No broken bones, no scratches. I was amazed. I remember hanging from the driver's seat

1:48.2

into the passenger seat almost upside down, and I realized that if I don't call somebody,

1:55.2

no one, no one's going to come find me. I'm in the middle of the snow on this old back road in the country. So I started

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