Have You Ever Wondered Why You Were Born?

Are you seeing it now or is it not meant for you to see?

The first time I saw Final Destination, I was completely hooked on the concept of how one friend at a time would cheat death to keep the destiny of the next friend unchanged.

Final Destination is that death comes for anyone, anytime and anywhere. No matter what, no matter how many chances you get, death will get you in the end. You can cheat death, but you cannot escape it. (Wikipedia)

Now don’t get me wrong, when it’s your time to go, you’re going.

Several years ago on I-81 in Roanoke Va., a 20yr. old woman was driving home for a visit with her family. Suddenly and quite unexpectedly, a rear tire blew out sending her car into a rolling frenzy. She was wearing her seat belt.

She struggled to get out of her seatbelt and crawled out of the wreckage. By this time, good samaritans stopped and started screaming at her to stay where she was, as her mangled car was up against the concrete barrier in the middle of the interstate.

The young woman kept on crawling and within seconds, was crushed by a truck. It is not known if she knew what her purpose was, but may she rest in peace. It was just her time to go.

No! This story isn’t going to be about examples of people who have lived or died traumatically. Keep reading, just setting the mood.

So are there people with these cheating death episodes who have seen why they were born? And have there been people who have passed that never got to see why they were born at all? There sure are!

Stay with me now!

In 1974, my little brother was a happy healthy 14yr old. He loved his little friends and his bike and going to my dad’s business to learn to paint cars.

This one hits close to my heart.

On June 12, 1974, my mom asked him to ride his bike to the store to get her a pack of cigarettes. Now this little store was only 2 blocks away but with a major traffic light in between them.

According to the police report, a semi was going north and my brother either didn’t see the semi or he thought he could beat him across the intersection.

He didn’t make it to the store.

His bicycle ended up underneath the semi twisted and torn apart trapping him underneath. He was quickly air lifted to a major trauma center and surprisingly the only trauma he received was a kidney torn in half.

He was successfully operated on and was home in a week. Years later he got married and had a beautiful daughter named Tiffany.

Since the time she was small she went to church religiously. She shared God with anybody she could. Tiffany loved sewing and hockey and driving with exuberance.

She started a sewing group for the young people in church to teach them her artistic trade so they could sew different little animals and quilts and even collected toys and stuffed bears to give to the very young dying children in Philadelphia Children’s hospital.

Had my brother passed in that accident, we wouldn’t have had her and her important mission from God whom she loved.

Tiffany passed two years after this group was started. She passed ironically at the same Children’s hospital from Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia. She was 18.

A woman spoke at her funeral (barely able to get the words out) about forever carrying her mission forward. Her journey was finished. Tiffany got to see why she was born.

This one is just phenomenal. I wish I could meet her.

Laura Geraghty was a school bus driver in 2009. On April 1st of that year she had gotten done with her route of dropping kids at home and was headed back to school with a teacher and special needs child.

As she was driving back, she started having severe pain in her neck and chest. She knew she was having a heart attack. By the time she got back into the school parking lot, she was vastly going downhill. The teacher ran for help.

The school nurse grabbed the defibrillator and got to her. CPR was in progress and she got shocked 21 times. She was rushed to the hospital as her heart was stopping for good. Once there, she was clinically dead for 57 minutes. She lived with no signs of neurologic or physical damage.

I do not know if Her life saved anyone that had made a difference but I do know all the children who she drove home, made it alive and well as also the teacher and the special needs student. And what those children meant to their families for being alive and well and the dreams those parents had for them, is a miracle in itself. She saw her life purpose in front of her.

This next one will forever be with you and me. The day of her funeral, I cried well into the night.

Princess Diana was truly the people’s princess. In August of 1997, she was tragically killed in a grave car accident.

Her marriage to Prince Charles produced 2 children, males. { I know Queen Elizabeth II has other children that would ultimately alter the succession, but I’m choosing to limit it here.}Prince William who is still being groomed to be the next King and Prince Harry who of course would be next in line to the throne at that time, should Prince William pass. Prince Harry (in my opinion) was a wild child however, and carries out those antics still today and ultimately has left the Firm.

Prince William went on to have 3 children, assuring the UK of much needed successors. Princess Diana saw her life’s purpose ahead but never lived to see it come to fruition. Even in death, her life purpose is loud and clear!

This one hits close to home. My husband is a cop.

George Floyds’ mother Larcenia, passed in 2018 at the tender age of 46. She never got to see how important it was for her to give birth to George.

Derek Chauvin was a police officer in Minneapolis Minnesota when George Floyd who passed a fake $20.00, was brutally arrested and taken down by Chauvin. He further went on to place his knee on the back of his neck for 9 minutes resulting in his death, while being filmed and pleas from bystanders to get off of him.

Floyd’s death sent outrage across the nation. Chauvin was ultimately found guilty of murder and sentenced to prison.

Following George Floyd’s death, police reform was drastically changed to benefit the detained and arrested, especially members of the Black community. Calls for accountability went on across the nation. And still today.

It’s so sad that it took his death to bring to light the abuse and torture of Black people across the world.

Had Floyd not been born and killed, God knows how many other black people would die without a single word being said! With no accountability and no nothing!

From his death, his life purpose was learned, but he never got to see it himself.

I want you to take a good hard look at your life for this New Year ahead. Do you really Know why you’re here?

Thanks for reading!

Happy New Year to all!