Who’s in my car?

Yesterday i heard a story shared about an automobile accident that happened years ago. A car carrying 14 passengers drove off the road into a deep ravine. Fourteen people in a car that was designed to hold only five! The impact should have killed all the occupants, but everyone survived! 

Many named it a miracle, but the rescuers had an explanation for this miracle. Had there been fewer people in the car someone would have certainly died. If there would have been less than five in the car everyone would have most certainly perished. How is this possible?

The fact that 14 people were so tightly packed in the car, the shock of impact was absorbed, distributed and shared by all the occupants of the car. The speaker who shared this story was not propagating unsafe overloading of vehicles, but using this illustration to make a point.

We are not designed to take on extreme impact alone. Be it physical, emotional or spiritual, when our lives are jarred by crashes or extreme impact, we rarely survive without others surrounding us, without someone close by our side. 

So the question is who’s in my car on this life journey? No, we don’t need 14 people packed around us, but we do need one or two people who are close, much closer than a brother, whom we can lean on, confide in and know they will be there for us regardless of how far off the road we have gone. 

There are times we need to drive alone, but journeying too long alone and crashing has the potential of killing us deep inside.