Being new here, I had no idea what I had done when I mentioned a moose. I am so very sorry for bringing up something so painful to you. From the bottom of my heart, I apologize.
Although I'm not Brenda, I want to assure you that all is well . The end result of that whole accident was salvation!--and that can never be bad, right?! I'm sure Brenda will post a response here, but I was hoping to let your mind rest......I wouldn't have brought it up if I'd thought it was a real horrific thing to post.
Eeyore, I took absolutely no offense to your posting the word moose (although maybe it might not have looked that way when I posted - but when I hear the word moose, those are the inital thoughts that come to mind). It actually gave me the opportunity to look at the good things in our lives and to be again thankful for them. A couple months after the accident, Andrew came home from school and had to do a project on an animal - guess which one he picked - and at that time, I wasn't coping at all - was a tough assignment to get through (in fact he did most of it at school with his teacher because she knew at that time, I was really struggling). Three years ago when it happened, it would have been a different story to see that word or my name associated with it, but like Brooke said, it was a life changing time for our family - while we had some really rough waves to ride, the end result has been for the most part a positive one (we still have some not so great days). The accident was a good thing - it's what it took for God to get our attention and for us to do a complete turn around and begin walking with Him and stop walking against Him. My husband is a walking miracle - I couldn't ask for anything more than that. Maybe some time I'll sit down a explain this more... It wasn't until last fall that I was able to actually drive by a moose and not scream blue murder or cry my eyes out and that only came from a sermon that was preached last summer. No need to apologize, no hard feelings at all. (This past week with my aunt suffering a head injury has been hard because I'm treking down a familiar road that I never dreamed I was going to deal with again - but that is of no ones fault here.) God Bless,
Brooke, do you plan to pull up every new person who uses the word moose?! No way am I saying Brenda's turmoil was unimportant, but it's like Eeyore said, she's new, she had no idea.
I think the original idea of that thread (which you started Becky) was to say a word and the person replying would say the first thing that came to their mind and so on... In this case, when the word moose was posted - Brooke thought of me - she knew about Tracy's accident and meant absolutely no harm when she posted that word - it was the first thing that came to her mind (like the original post suggested that we do). I would have used the same words that I did use. I don't see where she was pulling anyone up - we were talking last night and that topic was brought up - she knows that it doesn't bother me to hear the word moose and was trying to put Eeyore's mind at ease. Why make it out to be something more than it really is?
In no way did I feel I was being taken to task over anything. My feeling was that Brooke was speaking out of simple compassion for her friend about a situation that I was clueless about. It was the first thing she thought of. I was simply unaware that the word I posted was one that would bring back such vivid & painful memories to someone else. I would never intentionally do something like that and just wanted to say "I'm sorry". As far as I am concerned, all is resolved & things are good.
Hello, again. Just wanted to echo Brenda's comments about our conversation. I consider Brenda a very good friend or I would have never jumped in on that. Becky, I'm feeling at a loss. School me on what "pull up" means?
