On Monday my daughter got her hair done for school pictures at our stylist's salon. We came out to the parking lot to get into our car and a man had just started up his car parked next to us. As my daughter opened her door to get into the back seat, I heard a dull "thud". Immediately, I knew exactly what she had done--she had hit the guy's car next to us with her door.
I told her what had just happened and she said, "I did? Really?"
As she was talking to me I looked through my window at the man next to us who was looking back at me with disgust all over his face. 'Oh, great,' I thought. 'He does not look happy at all.'
I tell my daughter that she needs to say sorry. She opens her car door (very gingerly this time) and says, "Sorry" out the crack in the door. As she's apologizing, I'm apologizing through the window at the same time.
In that moment, the look on the man's face totally changes. He sheepishly smiles, holds up a hand and says, "That's okay, that's okay."
I was so very thankful for God's grace right then and there. In this day and age when everybody is suing anybody for everything, we were protected. No need to exchange insurance cards or phone numbers, just "Sorry" and "That's okay".
God's word is true when it says "A gentle answer turns, away wrath,..." Proverbs 15:1a
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