PRAYER REQUEST

One of my very best high school friends contacted me this week to share some terrible news with me and to ask for prayer. Her young nephew was in a car accident this last week. He was intoxicated and hit a car. 2 people in the other car were killed.

Until that night, his life was going forward in a beautiful way. He was getting his AA and in December was going off to San Luis Obispo to continue his education. He had never been in trouble before. A good person, a good friend, a wonderful son to his parents. This choice he made, this one decision to drink and drive has changed the path of his life. Dave and I watched a show tonight where someone said "Your life can turn on a dime". We can blink and everything we know has changed. This is what has happened for Ricky, for his family, for his friends...and I haven't even touched upon the family in the other car who lost 2 family members instantly!

Only God knows what will happen from here. The pain that these two families will endure will be excrutiatingly painful. There will be the long drawn out process of court, and then a sentence.

Even Ricky's family knows that he must be punished for this crime. Two lives were lost. A family has lost loved ones, and the pain must be unbearable.

Please, with me, keep these two families in your prayers. The boy who caused the accident is Richard Rodriguez. You can google his name and find the story posted to the news. It happened in Goleta I believe.

All we can all do is ask God to be merciful, and just, and compassionate to all involved. We know He will.

This has made the family of Ricky really search out God and pray. They have gone to church and have sought the prayers of others.

Please, again, help me to continue these prayers for all of those involved.

Thank you.

God Bless you... Please remember to hug and kiss your family, your loved ones, your friends whenever you see them. Don't pass up the opportunities that come your way to let people know how you feel about them. It is so important to live in the moment at all times. How hard this is to learn, I know... but our lives can turn on a dime, with the blink of an eye. Forever changed.

Hugs and blessings to you all!!!