This really doesn't have too much to do with Vessels and Flowers. It just has to do with walking with the Lord and seeing Him work in strange ways in our lives.
Maurice had just graduated from a one year Bible course at Multnomah School of the Bible in Portland, Oregon.. We had been accepted into Missionary Aviation Fellowship’s Orientation Class.
We had left Portland, on our way to Fullerton, California to begin our missionary adventures with MAF. We had everything we owned in our green van and borrowed homemade trailer. While driving down an Oregon highway, early in the morning, a car sideswiped our trailer and it and all its contents fell down an embankment. All of our belongings were strewn down the hill. We had some decisions to make. It happened that our son, Steve was sick and was getting sicker. He had a high fever and we were worried about him. I know it doesn’t make sense, but I did not want to be left alone on the highway while Maurice took Steve to a town nearby for a U-haul trailer and to take Steve to some doctor. So I opted for us all to go and prayed God would somehow watch over our belongings.
It took some time to get into a nearby doctor. He gave Steve some antibiotics and we then realized we were all hungry. We had little funds after a school year at Multnomah, so we drove to a grocery store and looked to see just how much funds we had. Besides the food and gas we would need on our trip, we now had an extra expense of the doctor and a rental trailer.
When I looked in my purse I saw an envelope that one of Morrey’s fellow students had given me at his graduation. I just thought it was probably a graduation card. It was, but it also had $50.00 in it. Wow!
We bought a few groceries, rented a trailer and drove back to our “accident” site.
When we arrived there was a gentlemen sitting in a lawn chair, smoking a pipe, and watching over our belongings. He said that he saw our things and was concerned that a salvage outfit would come along and take pick everything up believing it was abandoned.. He told us that a salvage company had come along and he had told them that we were not there then, but were coming right back. I have no idea how he knew that??
Of course, we profusely thanked him and in a second, he was gone.
It was an exhausting evening of getting the borrowed trailer to a station where it would be reclaimed by its owner, and gathering up and repacking all of our belongings.
When it was finally done and we were driving away, I wondered if Guardian Angels smoked pipes???God does the most unusual things for us some times. Has He brought comfort and care for you lately? Want to share??
Blessings.
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