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Blogtember Day 4

Friday, September 6: A story about a time you were very afraid.

One night a few months ago, we had been at Zach's parents' and were coming home on Hwy 41. I should mention now we don't live too terribly far from the jail. We get to our exit and it is blocked by a police car with its lights on. We think that's odd, so we go down further to the next turn we could take. We see another police car in a parking lot with no lights on. When we get back to our intended street, there is a police car with its spot light on facing north towards 41. At this point, Zach and I are both pretty confident that they've had an inmate escape. Great, I'll sleep so well tonight. We continue down and turn on our street and there is a police car in a business's parking lot, down another block and there is a police car directly across from our house! I was freaking out! We pull into our driveway and my heart stopped. Our door was standing. Wide. Open. I immediately start freaking out and Zach says for me to stay in the car while he goes in to look around. I can barely explain the fear in those 60 seconds he was in our house. I immediately jumped out of the car, considered running across the street to ask the police officer for help, and was constantly praying that there was no one in our house. I promise I don't think I breathed that whole time. I actually felt light headed like I might pass out. (Guess that tells you how I handle high stress situations dealing with my husband's safety! i.e.- not well!) 

Zach came out and I prayed a big praise to The Lord. The house was empty, nothing was gone, everything was fine. Thank you lord, again! We figured that when whoever went out the door last must not have closed it all the way to engage the lock and it fell open. This has happened before to us, but with all the police cars and crazy events, it made everything seem a whole lot scarier!

P.S.- We found out later that we were right; a prisoner DID escape that night! They did catch him though, and he wasn't near our house!  

When were you most scared?

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