By the Grace... She Was Already Unbuckled

It happened in an instant.

Karen Reding Hunter was pulling into a gas station with her three-year-old daughter, Jami, buckled safely into her car seat behind her. Her pastors’ two children were also in the car. Nothing seemed out of the ordinary—until flames suddenly consumed the vehicle.

It was chaos. Fire spread fast. Smoke filled the car. The heat was already coming through Karen’s driver-side window. Panic threatened to take over, but she knew she had one chance. She laid her body down and reached behind her, trying to grab her daughter from the back seat. But Jami was still strapped in. The flames were rising, and time was running out.

Karen couldn’t get her hand on the car seat buckle. She was praying hard—desperately. And then, just like that, they were out. The vehicle was fully engulfed when Karen and Jami exited the car.

Later that night, while recounting what had happened, Jami—just three years old—spoke words her mom would never forget:

“The angels unbuckled my car seat.”

Karen couldn’t explain it. She hadn’t managed to undo the buckle. She barely touched it. But somehow, her daughter had come free. And not just Jami—all the children in the car got out safely, without injury.

It could have gone so differently. But it didn’t.

No serious burns. No lives lost. Just a fire, a frantic moment, and what Karen knows deep down was divine intervention.

A moment where prayer met action.
A moment where angels really did show up.

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