How I know God Exists...

Believers will get asked when they were first sure God exists. For myself, it was one sunny mid-west morning in the early 1980s.

I had finished my master’s degree at the University of Chicago and was looking for full-time employment. The only job on the horizon was 50 miles away in North Chicago, IL. This was my second job interview and it was time to meet the contractor’s client, Abbott Labs. To get there, I borrowed my boyfriend’s car, a 1974 Chevy Nova, and literally cleaned out my piggy bank to pay the eight round-trip tolls.

The interview went well from my perspective so I happily started back to my apartment in the western suburbs. Driving is not my thing. Anyone who knows me will tell you that – followed by an eye-roll. For the record, I am a very good driver. I just hate it.

Somewhere on the exits, on-ramps, and by-ways of IL-137, I ended up on a dirt road, surrounded by four foot deep ditches, heading towards someone’s farm. Not a soul in sight. Not even a crow.

I quickly realized my mistake and saw a cross-road where I could turn around. Of course, it rained the night before. A good ‘ol mid-west thunder boomer. And, of course, I misjudged the width so the back wheels of my boyfriend’s car ended up in the ditch. This ditch was so deep that the bottom of the car was lying flat on the road! [Years later it would occur to me that miracle one was that the gas tank didn’t explode.]

Try as I might, I could only spew mud in my efforts to get my boyfriend’s car out of the ditch. I got out of the car and looked at the bright blue sky. Then said with full desperation “God. If you are really up there, NOW would be the time to show me!”

Within three-to-five minutes, an elderly gentleman in a pickup truck tooled along and saw my plight. Miracle two. He also just happened to have a thick chain in the back and was able to pull Ron's car out of the ditch with ease. Miracle three. He took pity on my dire financial straits and said “I won’t charge you either.” Miracle four.

This was my first MCI Proof Positive that God existed.

                                 In His Name.