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Exalt the longer days and increased opportunities for sunshine all you want, every parent knows that summertime is scary. Those terrifying Temples of Doom they call "playgrounds!" Why not just present your child with some raised platforms, an inclined plane of roofing material, and issue a challenge for who can acquire the most boo-boos? And don't even get me started on the beach or pool. Once you have more than one mobile child they seem to consider it their jobs to head different directions, and as quickly as possible. 

Recently at a Fort Worth, Texas, community pool, two parents had the unthinkable happen, when they saw their kids nearly drown. Luckily for them, a string of coincidence led Christy Daae to be at the pool, which she told the Star-Telegram she almost never visits. Daae recounted how she saw the two kids playing happily. The three-year-old girl then started struggling, and her four-year-old friend, brave little guy, tried to help her. (Cue throat-lump.) Another good Samaritan saw the kids go under and pulled them out. Daae, who is an ER nurse, and another woman began giving the boy CPR. (The girl was in better shape and breathing on her own.) The kids were both whisked away to a nearby hospital. Daae called her presence at the scene "a God thing." "I do feel that it was divine intervention," she said. "We never go to that pool." (Read the whole story here at the Star-Telegram.)

There are so many moments in life when a split-second, a mere millimeter, a seemingly random decision, ends up changing everything. Thank goodness, in this case, for Daae's bravery, quick thinking, and the "God moment" that brought her to that pool on that day. 

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