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Just stay in the middle lane and you’ll be all right, I told myself, driving on the Los Angeles freeway one sunny afternoon. I was headed back home from my job as an office manager at my husband’s company, and as many times as I’d made the commute, I still got nervous. I didn’t learn to drive until my twenties, and it had been tough getting accustomed to southern California’s busy, congested freeways and fast-moving traffic.

 

“I hate driving on the freeway,” I often told my husband. “It would be so easy to get into an accident with all the crazy drivers.”

 

He always tried to reassure me. “As long as you drive safely,” he said, “you can trust that God will be with you.”

Over the years, I formed the habit of staying in the middle lane until it was time to exit, leaving the left lane for those wanting to drive fast and the right lane for anyone entering and exiting the freeway. So far, I’d been accident-free.

 

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