"Tender Mercies"

We thought we were at the end of this whole "moving" thing with the "Drive Mom's Car To Utah" task. Brent left Friday afternoon for Salt Lake. I really wanted to go with him so he didn't have to do the 3-day drive alone and so we could have some "alone time". But, there was no room for me in the car and now I'm very grateful I didn't go with him! This morning I tried to call Brent but only got his voicemail. I was concerned so I called his sister in Utah to see if she had heard from him. She had not. At about 12:30 pm he calls me. He had been in a car accident! He was near Richfield, Utah and it had been snowing! The car lost traction and it fish-tailed so he was facing backwards on the freeway and proceeded to flip over upside down! The sunroof shaddered, the windshield spiderwebbed and the car was filled with dirt and sagebrush. (By the way, the airbags didn't go off!) He said if he turned his head, his cheek touched a bush coming up through the sunroof. Luckily, there was a woman driving behind him that saw the whole thing. She pulled over, called 911 and within 5 minutes the paramedics and police showed up. Amazingly, Brent only suffered a few scratches! I'm sure he will feel the soreness tomorrow though. Not possitively sure the car is totalled yet, but Brent says the pictures look pretty bad! The reason I say I was glad I didn't go was that the passenger side of the car was damaged pretty badly and that is the side that got the most impact when it crashed. Heavenly Father was watching over us this weekend! He was protecting us from something tragic! I can only imagine what could have happened and I'm very grateful it didn't turn out that way! I will be so happy when Brent is back home, where he should be, and that I can see for myself that he is really OK. Brent is disappointed that he will never get to hear the last 30 minutes of his audiobook, one that he had spent the last 10 hours of his drive listening to. Oh, his Blackberry needs replacing too! He did mention maybe getting an i-phone?!