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<font size="+1">God often had the Israelis remind themselves of what
He has done. Write them down! Bind them on your head! Tell your
children! <br>
I ran into this today and I think you should know about it, so you
too, can be reminded of God at work.<br>
<br>
Today after work, I stopped by the house of some dear older
friends. Both are well over 70, but Farrell has had to keep
working because the union he worked for all his life announced,
when he went to collect his pension, that they had misplaced one
of his payment documents from 20 yrs ago and that made him
ineligible to collect anything. Anyway, I always am a little
concerned for them. <br>
Today Dottie couldn't wait to tell me and show me what had
happened:<br>
Monday, Dottie was ready to go out as usual on a short shopping
trip. Farrell was in the garage working with a very loud sander.
She asked him as usual, if he would like to go with her to get one
of his favorite ice-creams. It was 11:30 and past time for
Farrell to take a break and rest, something he's been pretty good
about following through on (he has a heart condition and a
pace-maker). The project he was working on did not have a
completion time he needed to finish for. And yet, Farrell turned
down the break and his favorite ice-cream and said he needed to
stay and work. But when Dottie started to head out on her own,
Farrell instead, suddenly wanted her to go with him down to the
back property to see some work he had done with the tractor.
Dottie had already seen the work with him, but she too, suddenly
changed her plans, agreed to hop on the cart, and both went down
to the back of the property to see it all again. <br>
<b><i>On their way back up to the house</i></b>, they were in just
the right position between the hills to hear a loud bang. coming
up to the house from the back, they were in just the right
position to see flames begin to shoot up from the rear of the
house. Racing up to the house, they were just in time to turn off
the electricity, and put out the fire. Dottie showed me the
blackened hole in the wood paneling over the washer dryer area and
how the smoke trail in that short amount of time, had blackened a
trace all the way to the exposed wood porch roof attached to the
wood-framed house. A recently replaced hose from the washing
machine which lives under the porch out back, had begun to leak,
sprayed water onto the dryer, which sparked (as in fried a hole
all the way through the dryer drum! ), ignited the cloth that was
always keeping the machines from collecting dust when not in use,
and ignited the wall behind from there.<br>
If both had gone out as expected, there would have been no house
left<br>
If Dottie had gone and left Farrell working, he would have heard
nothing (he's 3/4 deaf and the sander was loud), and seen nothing
till the house was mostly gone.<br>
5 more minutes and there would have been no stopping the flames.<br>
There is no question but that this was God arranging for these
dear people to be in exactly the right place at exactly the right
time because He cares about their need for shelter.<br>
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