When Life is endangered

This evening I experienced something I will never EVER forget.

I was babysitting for a group from church this evening. That's 15 kids... mostly toddlers. I had two helpers. We weren't allowed to go inside, so we had to keep everyone in the backyard. Which was hard... because there was NO FENCE. We had kids running everywhere. I had to hold an infant most of the time, otherwise he would start crying. And then other kids kept running off because they thought they "didn't need supervision". It was crazy. So I was trying to keep track of everybody... lots of toddlers in a non-fenced in area. And then one of the parents came out.. and was like "Um.. just so you know, one of the neighbors just found one of the toddlers walking down the middle of the road towards Van Dorn (busy street)." 

My heart stopped. And then one of the parents came out and said, "I'm not trying to chew you out, but it is not okay for my son to be walking down the middle of the road. He could have died."

I know. I know he could have died. I was so close... so close to being held responsible for what could have been the death of a toddler. It was horrifying. I came home and cried. :(

I'm still shaken. I'm SO thankful that God protected that little one and that he is okay. But still... what if the neighbor hadn't found him? What if he had made it to the street? It's scary. He could have died. That little guy's life was on the line... and I feel responsible. 

I guess I don't need to think about that, though... because "there are no 'if's' in God's world". I'm just going to be grateful that he was found. 

When Life is endangered... it's tough. It's shaking. Right now I'm just really really glad that nothing worse happened.