* White Jeeps *

When I first started driving at age 16, I often found myself driving behind a white Jeep.  It was a very noticeable thing for me.  I would be driving to school or work and either on the road or on the freeway, there I was behind a white Jeep.  At first I thought it was such a peculiar coincidence.  I often joked with my passengers about how funny it was that I always ended up behind a white Jeep in traffic and on the road.  My friends would even point out the white Jeep as it was such a common occurrence.  (never the same person so it wasn't like I drove behind someone that lived in my neighborhood who owned a white Jeep ).  
How common are white Jeeps anyway? I actually looked it up, only 4% of Jeeps are white, 21 % are green/teal and 16% are red.  Not as common as I thought.  

I started to really pay close attention to the times I was often found driving behind a random white Jeep and it occurred to me that some of those times I was alone and asking God to guide me and direct me with something specific in my life.  I started praying and asking God if this whole white Jeep thing was something I should think more on.  Was I crazy for thinking that this white Jeep was somehow a message God was using to communicate to me? I felt silly just even thinking about it but it kept happening for years.  In fact, it still does.  
Yesterday while driving in the rain and taking my kids to school there it was.  The Jeep was directly in front of me in slow moving traffic making a right turn just as I needed to make.  I remembered something.  A few years back, after questioning my sanity, ha!  God placed on my heart the need to look into this further.  I did the typical (look for the definition of Jeep and the word white) and found this;  JEEP= A small, durable, general purpose vehicle with 4-wheel drive.  WHITE=reflecting all the rays of sunlight or a pure light, used to describe snow.  Mind blowing? Not really.  So why was Jesus prompting me to look further into this silly little Jeep thing?  

One day as I was driving in Florida on my way to Church an actual alligator was crossing the Expressway.  (no joke!).  I had to slow down and wait for this massive thing to continue on it's path.  It was early in the morning and I was the only car on the road and I had this highway all to myself.  When the alligator finished crossing, a car drove past me and got into my lane, right in front of me.  Can you guess what type of car it was? It was at that moment that this silly little Jeep coincidence made sense to me.  

The words durable and light stood out to me like never before.  Durable is also another word for lasting and enduring.  God almighty is ever lasting and he's the light of my life!  Without a doubt (you may think I am silly) I knew that this Jeep was God's way of telling me that I was on the right path.  I knew instantly that he was physically showing me that the actual path I was on was the right one at that moment in my life for me.  

When I have questioned big moves like moving to Florida, when I have doubted my school or degree choice, when I wasn't sure about the job I was doing, when I was driving to serve at Church, when I drove my children to school and hoped and prayed I made the right school choice for them.  ALL of those times God was reminding me that I was on the right path.  That he's proud of me and that he is lasting and he is my light.  Even if I stray from his path for my life, he gives me the opportunity to get back on the right road and follow him. I still find myself driving behind white Jeeps often and I always smile and give God thanks for his visual reminder that he approves.