Where is God?

My beloved brother-in-law was in a terrible accident last week.  The kind where you get flown to the largest hospital in 5 states and spend almost a week in ICU.  The kind where he'll spend at least the next month somewhere other than in his own bed.

The kind where you pack in an hour to drive ten just to be there beside him.

And I know this might sound crazy but I saw God all over the place.  Everywhere I heard him whispering this was all part of the plan - it had all been sifted through his fingers.  The tendency, of course, is to ask where the heck are you?  But over the last two years of very intense life in our house (Ally's birth and her surgery, Anya's adoption, and now D's accident) I have found repeatedly when I look and say, "thank you" He is everywhere.

So here once again I set up a Marker, so I can remember all the ways I saw God in the midst of this storm.  Please feel free to add to it in the comment section!

1. facebook
2. brothers
3. landing on his feet
4. nurse on the street
5. ambulances with well trained crews
6. medical helicopters with amazingly well trained crews
7. Harborview
8. surgeons who spend 20 years operating on people's pelvises (say that 5x fast!)
9. morphine
10. hydrocodone
11. phone calls to life-long friends
12. nurse J
13. warm blankets
14. prayers of nephews
15. watching amazing life-giving friendships in action
16. old bosses who "just happened to be in the area" stopping by
17. kids who are hard-core road trippers
18. plastic surgeon residents met in the hallways
19. Linda W.
20. Mike and Bekah
21. Michael C.
22. 17 years of marriage
23. sense of humor
24. squeeze of my hand
25. precious goodbye
26. kiss on the forehead
27. coworkers
28. fraternity brothers
29. cell phones and text messages
30. family