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Chicago outskirts. Sunday afternoon. Driving north on I-294.
Suddenly from some brush on the right, a deer leaps onto the highway and dashes across. We’re talking eight lanes of divided expressway.
Clearing the center divide without a pause, she heads into Russian Roulette. No words come, but my heart goes out in prayer. The three additional lanes of very fast traffic coming up behind the semi that she darts in front of do not know she will be racing across their lanes.
Yet in another instant she is intact in the brush on the far side and heading for forest. As the doe reaches safety, a van in the next lane nearly swerves into my car. The driver waves apologetically, shaking his head in amazement at what we have just seen.
No accidents, no one hurt, no damage. And several pretty startled drivers.
Many people will say, “That was one lucky deer.” My take is that I was privileged to witness that tragedy is not inevitable. That deer-killed-on-highways statistics are not law. That the Creator of the universe has established spiritual laws of harmony and they do govern. Rather than being persuaded that crises are normal and unavoidable, we can and should expect to see this law of harmony in action.
