I got this email from my buddy Leslie and thought about forwarding it on out to several people, but decided to post it here instead. 🙂
Subject: Psalm 55:22
This was written by a Hospice of Metro Denver physician …..
I just had one of the most amazing experiences of my life, and wanted to share it with my family and dearest friends: I was driving home from a meeting this evening about 5, stuck in traffic on Colorado Blvd., and the car started to choke and splutter and die – I barely managed to coast, cursing, into a gas station, glad only that I would not be blocking traffic and would have a somewhat warm spot to wait for the tow
truck. It wouldn’t even turn over.
Before I could make the call, I saw a woman walking out of the “quickie mart” building, and it looked like she slipped on some ice and fell into a gas pump, so I got out to see if she was okay. When I got there, it looked more like she had been overcome by sobs than that she had fallen; she was a young woman who looked really haggard with dark circles under her eyes. She dropped something as I helped her up, and I picked it up to give it to her. It was a nickel.
At that moment, everything came into focus for me: the crying woman, the ancient Suburban crammed full of stuff with 3 kids in the back (1 in a car seat), and the gas pump reading $4.95. I asked her if she was okay and if she needed help, and she just kept saying “I don’t want my kids to see me crying,” so we stood on the other side of the pump from her car. She said she was driving to California and that things were very hard for her right now. So I asked, “And you were praying?” That made her back away from me a little, but I assured her I was not a crazy person and said, “He heard you, and He sent me.”
I took out my card and swiped it through the card reader on the pump so she could fill up her car completely, and while it was fueling walked to the next door McDonald’s and bought 2 big bags of food, some gift certificates for more, and a big cup of coffee. She gave the food to the kids in the car, who attacked it like wolves, and we stood by the pump eating fries and talking a little. She told me her name, and that she lived in
Kansas City. Her boyfriend left 2 months ago and she had not been able to make ends meet. She knew she wouldn’t have money to pay rent Jan 1, and finally in desperation had finally called her parents, with whom she hadnot spoken in about 5 years. They lived in California and said she could come live with them and try to get on her feet there. So she packed up everything she owned in the car. She told the kids they were going to California for Christmas, but not that they were going to live there.
I gave her my gloves, a little hug and said a quick prayer with her for safety on the road. As I was walking over to my car, she said, “So, are you like an angel or something?” This definitely made me cry. I said, “Sweetie, at this time of year angels are really busy, so sometimes God uses regular people.” It was so incredible to be a part of someone else’s miracle. And of course, you guessed it, when I got in my car it started right away and got me home with no problem. I’ll put it in the shop tomorrow to check, but I suspect the mechanic won’t find anything wrong. Sometimes the angels fly close enough to you that you can hear the flutter of their wings…
Psalms 55:22 “Cast thy burden upon the Lord, and He shall sustain thee. He shall never suffer the righteous to be moved.”
wow, nice story. hope it’s true. it made me think of the task we had the kids do at christmas as part of their game, filling up someone’s gas tank for them. one of them i think found someone that was travelling and really needed it. we should probably be more aware of things like this around us. someone told us at church last night that she had worked yesterday (she works at a crisis pregnancy center) and that during work she had gone to the bank and some other errrands for the center. on her way back, she was in a parking lot or something, i can’t remember, but someone pulled out and blocked her and she couldn’t get by but was in a huge hurry to get back to work. she said she was very annoyed. she finally got out and hurried back to work and said when she had been there only like 2 minutes, that very woman that had blocked her walked into the pregnancy center! she had twins, was probably not married and was pregnant and said she couldn’t have another baby. of course, what they do there is counsel with people on options other than abortion. don’t know if the woman has made up her mind what she will do yet. but this stroy made me think of that also. so many people, with so many problems and we don’t always see what’s going on. ok, sorry to ramble
Wow! How moving, I had a big lump in my throat. It shows God is always with us even when we least expect it!
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