😇🙏🏻“Blessed”😇🙏🏻
Judy Royal Glenn Photography
Yesterday, I was the first to enter my second home, Cades Cove. It was an amazing day, minus one hiccup. The snow was beautiful, and it was a blessing to see it snow until noon.
I went over a culvert in my car, leaving my back left tire about two feet off the ground. The photo shows after the first time my car was pulled so the tire wasn’t as high.
Photo by Robin Greenlee
I pulled over quickly because I saw a buck and wanted to photograph it. I didn’t know it was a culvert as it was not clearly visible. My tire went off into the bank and left me hanging. The metal underside of my car was stuck on the culvert.
Thankfully, I had met a nice young man named John earlier before I entered the Cove. He assisted me in getting several massive logs under my tire beside the culvert so that my tire would have something to drive on when we backed out. Thankfully, two other sweet gentlemen, Jason and Tom, stopped and helped. After we stacked all the logs, they had plastic runners to put under the tire so that it could roll on.
I put it in reverse and backed a reasonable distance, and then my car stopped because I forgot I had my emergency break on. We fixed all the logs and tried again with his wench on The General—his jeep.
Before I got in the car to back it up, I asked everyone to pray, and I asked the Lord to have his angels lift my car and not damage it. I asked for protection, and my car could’ve easily flipped over if things had gone wrong. Thank you, Lord, for your provisions, blessing me, and keeping me safe in my car.
A few friends I saw that morning circled back around and photographed the shenanigans I got myself into.
It’s not the buck’s fault. It’s mine. His beautiful photo will come next week.
The second pull on the wench freed my car, and my car did not appear damaged. We all took a group photo, and I hugged and thanked them for stopping to help. They are my good Samaritans.
One asked, “Have you photographed the buck yet?”
“No.”
“Well, you need to go photograph it. That’s a good story.”
Luckily, the buck awaited me as he slept on the snowing grass. I got some good shots. I told the guys to go to my website and pick any photo they liked, and I would ship it to them.
I will be more cautious and not be too hurried to pull off. I need to get one of those cars with cameras on all sides, as I couldn’t see how close I was to the culvert on the right side. God is good. All the time is good.
As I did my devotion for the night, I laughed out-loud as I saw the verse: Stand still and watch the Lord rescue you today... Exodus 14:13
Word to the wise: Don’t be in a hurry to pull off, and definitely use the pull-offs.
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https://www.judyroyalglennphotography.com/
Location: Cades Cove, Tennessee
