I pray God gives me the words to describe what happened to us in Searcy and conveys how He directed our experience there. As I posted last, we went to Searcy to have a window we had repaired in April repaired again because of a steadily worsening leak. Early Monday morning the repair began. Two other couples we met on Sunday had their repairs completed and we bade them farewell. Our repair took a while longer. By mid-afternoon our repair and the two new windows being defogged were completed and we were ready to leave. We had tentative plans to spend the night at Wooly Hollow State Park northwest of Searcy, but as we were preparing to leave, an ominous storm cropped up directly in our path and the darkening sky, lightening and wind kept us at the shop. The resulting downpour revealed a still-leaking window. When the storm ended, the repair resumed without success , so we stayed the night in Searcy. Tuesday morning, the window came out and the repair continued.
By mid-morning it looked like we were ready to leave and as we set out it started to cloud up and as we headed onto East Race Street and filled up with fuel, it started to rain and once again it came down in a torrent. Karen had trouble with the windshield wipers, so we pulled into the parking lot of an Assembly of God Church and watched the rain seep under our repaired window. As a rainbow appeared directly in front of us we felt that God was once again speaking to us and calming any fears or anxiety we might have. So, back to the shop and the disbelief of the repairmen. Out came the window and back we went to the customer lounge and Karen's jigsaw puzzle and my "cross sewing". While they thanked us for our patience, we thanked them for their's in trying to resolve the leak problem. They kept saying they had never faced a situation like this in their years of business. By about 3:00, and a five minute hose drenching, we were released again and headed for Heber Springs and a Corps of Engineers campsite on the Little Red River. We enjoyed a quiet rain-free night. No rain on Wednesday and a pleasant drive back to our Passion Play home and dinner with ten other PP volunteers.
Was God watching over us? Were the two rainstorms and their timing just coincidence? Does God protect and guide those who seek Him and pray for His will and are obedient to it? Am I reading (and writing) more than I should into the everyday events of life? I know what we believe, and I hope you have pause to think about what happened to us, the key and the lock, the numerous God-moments in your own life and realize how powerful and worthy of praise and thanks is our God. I hope I'm not the only one with "God bumps" right now. PTL.
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