Shira, the kids, and I, were in our van on the way back from Toronto…it was on Route 15 near Mansfield at 11:30pm, Sunday night.
Anxious to get home before it gets "too" late, we weren't making many stops.
I was driving.
The road dips up and down and then all of a sudden we see two deer on the road ahead of us. One deer in each lane. No room to go around, no room to pull over.
I hit the horn and the brakes and aimed for the middle, trying to direct the van in between the deer.
The kids, sitting in the back, had no idea what happened. They were even laughing, giggling together.
Shira and I were quite shaken.
The expression goes, "There is a sermon in there somewhere".
This past week's Parsha Class (12:00 noon on Tuesdays) we talked about Adam and Eve in the garden, and their sin in eating from the "tree of knowledge of good and evil."
Why was this a sin? Can knowledge be a bad thing?
Imagine our girls knowing and understanding about what accidents are and what accidents could be and that we are about to be in one…imagine their terror. Over something that turns out to be what?
A smashed headlight, a crunched bumper.
Tradition has it that as many times as G-d saved us from catastrophe that threatened us openly, there are many more times that G-d saved us without us even knowing about the threat!
In our day to day life, G-d hides his face as well. Imagine if we were able to "know" that everything we get, every dollar that we make, everything that happens to us, comes from him…
Why don't we know/feel that G-d is involved?
Because we are kids sitting in the back seat.
One day we will grow up, and be in a world where everyone and everything can feel and know G-d's presence and influence in this world.
May it come much sooner than we expect.
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