God’s Ways
Boom! Two cars collided on a busy highway. Jennifer Hummel was on her cell phone and Charley Mosley didn’t signal while passing her lane. This scene stopped rush hour traffic for 2 hours. Neither one of them had serious injuries, but their cars were banged up pretty bad. Both of them were taken to the same hospital.
On her cell phone, Jennifer talks to her boyfriend about her accident and how it was the man’s fault. Charley was also on his cell phone talking to his mother and telling her how it was the woman’s fault. Both were discharged and sent home not knowing that they were going to cross paths again.
Jennifer arrived home with a few scratches and a stitched up leg. Her boyfriend and mother helped her to the couch.
“I guess you’re not going to work for a couple of days,” said her mother Julia.
“I don’t have a problem with that. I need the rest.”
Her mother then retreated to her room. Jennifer asked her boyfriend if he could make her a sandwich and give her a can of soda.
“You’re not sick, get up and get it yourself.”
Then he sat down on the couch next to her. He took the remote out of her hand and began to click the channels. Jennifer thought that he wasn’t being sympatric and she looked around to see if her mother was looking on, because she felt embarrassed that she was staying with a man who didn’t respect her.
Her mother was up in her room on the phone talking to her friends about the car accident.
When Jennifer was finished making her sandwich, she hopped back to the living room to find that her boyfriend Jalil was not there.
“Thank God,” said Jennifer.
Then she felt a slap on the back of her neck.
“I’m not taking this from you any more.”
“See I was just hiding. If you want me to leave I’ll leave, but remember there is no one else but me in your life and it’ll never be anyone else,” said Jalil in a nasty and weird voice that made Jennifer cringe.
Jalil left the house and slammed the front door. Jennifer’s mother heard it and yelled from her room.
“What was that all about?”
“Dummy left mom, that’s all.”
“He’s no dummy, he’s a good man.”
“Whatever.”
Charley Mosley lived across town. He was getting care from his two teenage daughters named Carrie and Lou.
“Was that lady mean to you dad?” asked his older daughter Carrie.
“No, she was just shaken up. I hope she’s alright. Since we both were in the wrong and were ticketed, we won’t be seeing each other in court. Our auto insurance companies will be dealing with this.”
Lou, his youngest, was putting ice on her father’s swollen knee cap.
The phone ringed and it was his estranged wife Christina. She wanted to see the girls that day. Charley told her what happened and she didn’t seem to care, she just wanted to see her daughters. She felt since he was hurt, he needed time to rest, and the girls didn’t need to rest with him.
“If they want to see you, you can see them. But not with out supervised visits. If not…you loose.”
Charley put the phone down and asked his daughters if they wanted to see their mother. They both said they would, but only if their father came, and they knew he wasn’t up for moving around. Charley got back on the phone and told Christina that she had to see them another time, because the girls didn’t want to see her by themselves and he couldn’t move around. Christina starting yelling and Charley instantly hung up the phone. During the next hour, he just let it ring without finding out who was on the other line.
When Christina finally gave up trying to call Charley, she called her friend Alford. She told him to enforce his duty as an officer, and go over to where her children were, so he could talk some sense into their father.
“If they were mine, I would. I’m not going to abuse my right as an officer of the law for you. We just became good friends. I think you need to calm down and stop being so angry. You know what the bible says about that. Don’t let the sun go down on your wrath. We all make mistakes and when you go back to court maybe everything will be in your favor, but you must be patient.”
Christina cried over the realness of her situation. She just wanted her children back. Her dysfunctional childhood led up to her being an abusive parent. Her husband couldn’t take anymore, so he left her and had custody of their daughters for 6 months now.
Over at Jennifer’s house, her mother was helping her get around and talking to her about the high insurance premiums that she may get.
“Mom I’m not thinking about that. Right now I just want to relax and sort out my life. I have a good job, but I’m thirty and living with my mother. It seems like life is passing me by. I don’t know what to do.”
“You have a good man by your side. Maybe you and him can find a place and move in together.”
Jennifer didn’t want to tell her mother about their rocky relationship, but what’s
done in the dark must come to light.
The next day after the children went off to school, Charley went to answer a knock at the front door. It was Christina begging to talk to him. He opened the door and let her in.
“What is it Christina? I don’t have time for drama, so what do you have to say that you couldn’t say over the phone?”
“I want you to come to court with me and tell them that I’m a good mother and that I would never hit my children again. I took classes and everything. Please, can I see them today?”
“You don’t have to prove anything to me; it’s the court house that makes these decisions. I’m protecting mines, since you didn’t. When they come home from school I’ll ask them if they want to see you.”
Christina started to cry and then she asked Charley if they could pray.
“You know I’m not much for praying. I love God, but I’m not right. When I get well I’m going to take the girls back to their roots, because they truly love the Lord.”
Then he looked in Christina’s watery eyes and said softly,
“Sorry but you have to leave now.”
Christiana sobbed and prayed on the way home. She wanted the Lord to save her marriage, but it seemed like Charley was through with her.
That same day Jalil was headed back to Jennifer’s house with a bad attitude as always. He wanted to know why she wasn’t picking up the phone last night. He banged on the door.
To his knowledge her mother wasn’t home, because her vehicle wasn’t parked in front of the house, but she was home. Jalil banged again, and Jennifer’s mother opened the door and shouted,
“What is your problem? Are you crazy?”
“Sorry mame, I just want to see Jennifer.”
“Well she’s not here. She went to the store, and you’d better show some manners the next time you come to my house.”
“Yes mame,” said Jalil.
He was fuming by the time he got to his car and sped away doing 15 miles over the speed limit.
In the meantime, Jennifer went to buy some food from the grocery store. She got a call on her cell phone from the auto repair shop that had her car. They said it was totaled, and if she had close to ten thousand dollars they would fix it. Jennifer declined and said that she would just buy a kick around for now.
Across town, Charley decided to leave the house to get a little air. He didn’t like to be cooped up in the house for the full week that he was off from work, so he got inside of the only car that he had. It was small and not to his liking, but he had decided to keep it until his daughter was ready to drive.
On his way to the local grocery store, he stopped at a red light. In his rear view he noticed a car that wouldn’t come to a stop. It was moving behind him at a fast rate. With Charley’s quick thinking, he inched up little by little so the car wouldn’t hit him, but it was too late. Jalil, the driver of the other vehicle, hit the back of Charley’s car with such force that his car went into the traffic headed in the other direction, where motorists were making their turns. Charley got hit again by two other cars.
When the smoke cleared, there were two fatalities; Jalil and Charley.
Jennifer found out and was saddened, but relieved at the same time. When Christiana found out about Charley, she began to work harder to get her children back.
At Jalil’s funeral Jennifer cried very little. When she heard of driver that was killed because of her boyfriend Jalil, Jennifer thought of nothing more then to go the funeral which was held at his church.
Once there, she heard all the comments on how great Charley was. When Christina spoke, she talked about salvation and how her faith has gotten her to believe that God is able to help you through the storms of life. Jennifer never went to church before, but she felt like God was speaking to her. At the end of the funeral there was a call to receive Jesus as your Lord and Savior.
Upon exiting the church, she looked to see the picture of Charley Mosley and she gasped. Her thoughts on how real God was, reined in her mind. That’s when she began her Christian journey in the Lord. Beginning at Charley’s church.
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