[Gathnet] Re: A God story

[Dan Moody]

What an amazing story!  I love it when I hear reminders like this one  
of how great his love for us is.  Thanks for sharing it!

--Dan

On Sep 22, 2011, at 4:22 PM, eg wrote:

> God often had the Israelis remind themselves of what He has done.   
> Write them down! Bind them on your head! Tell your children!
> I ran into this today and I think you should know about it, so you  
> too, can be reminded of God at work.
>
> 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.
> Today Dottie couldn't wait to tell me and show me what had happened:
> 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.
> On their way back up to the house, 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.
> If both had gone out as expected, there would have been no house left
> 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.
> 5 more minutes and there would have been no stopping the flames.
> 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.

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