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Thursday, October 15, 2009
A Fork In The Road
We have just recently returned from a three week road trip across Australia, to Sydney and back. What a drive! On the day that we crossed over the Flinders Ranges in South Australia, we were confronted with an eeire sight. At first we though it was light rain. At times it looked like smoke. But it was in fact fine dust. It only lasted for 20 or 30 kilometres and then it was clear. Unknown to us at the time, what we had driven through was the very edge a the largest dust storm to sweep across three states in over 70 years.
Later that day, we came to the town of Peterborough, where it rained cats and dogs for a couple of hours before clearing up into a nice-ish day. It was at this point in our journey where we had to choose which way we would go to get to Sydney. Basicly, there are two directions you can go in. South through Renmark and Mildura or north through Broken Hill. Both directions are roughly the same distance. As we approched the intersection, we decided at the last minute to go through Mildura. Call it chance... call it luck... call it what you like... but I firmly believe that God was directing our path this day. You see, if we had of gone through Broken Hill, we would have driven straight into the dust storm, potentally doing damge to our engine.
It wasn't until we got to Bathurst that we came to realise just how fortunate we had been. Everything was a dusty reddish-brown colour and there were plenty of cars broken down on the side of the road. It just goes to show that God has all things under control... even when we don't relise it.