Prayer Request

I would like to share a story with you about my friend Nicole. She really wants prayers on this... also their life has been difficult lately.  So trust please pray for them, that would be greatly appreciated.

"On August 31, I was involved in a fender bender. I was changing lanes, and a car hit me from behind on mine left back side. He was clearly speeding thru the red light as the strip of road from the light to where he hit me was only 100 yards. He was speeding so fast that his little two door car literally turned my car into the guard rail, I have a galloper, much like a bulky jeep. 

I panicked for many reasons, one having to do with the unfairness to expats here, one having to do with the mountain of recent stress, one having to do with Corey not being near me (which as an expat you dint have a community of family and friends to kean on) and one to do with all the chemical changes in my body from IVF...and I did something I never thought I would, I drove off. His car barely had a dent, and he was clearly ok. This is not like me, I usually always bite the bullet and take responsibility, but in a brief moment I committed a crime out of fear before I had the time to process everything. 

Corey went to the station the next day as was requested. I could not go with him as I was on bed rest after the egg procedure. He went in with the mentality that if he fully cooperates, pay the man the fullest damages he requested without fuss then perhaps they will see we are trying to remedy our wrong. 

The man said that the basketball size dent would cost 1,500$ to fix, we didn't question, we didn't argue we paid him, then he requested bogus hospitalization funds saying he was going to be in the hospital for over two eels because of his neck. We paid him the thousand he requested. 

Corey has always literally lived by the scripture that teaches "give to him that ask of you." mt 5:42. But apparently in korea Corey should not have accepted 100% of the blame and this will probably work against us now.

I did wrong, and acted outside of what I know is the right thing to do. I guess I am human and panic too. I must right the wrong I have done, and we haved tried to do that by paying the man in full of what he asked for. But in Korean law apparently there is no set fine for these things, once the officer "investigates" then a prosecutor can set any fine he would like, there are no standards, in fact the officer said one case was charged over $7000 for leaving the scene. again there are no standards. 

I am terrified that this one brief moment of irrational action is going to immensely set us back. I have wrote a letter of remorse and have begged for mercy, a common culture thing here apparently, so now everything from this point is out of my hands. I want to pray, but feel guilty because itis my wrong. But at the same time Corey and I have goals this year and paying out $10,000 would really really hurts those goals. In the end, our fines will rest in the hands of one person with no set limits, and being an expat I fear the worse. If you feel lead please pray that that person will take the entire situation into account and administer a fair fine."