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Angel Story Of The Week From Joan Wester Anderson
We have all read of the
destruction left by Hurricane Charley, especially around the Punta Gorda area.
One reader reports that gas lines are still very long, there is a shortage of
clean-up material and ice, and people are getting depressed. If anyone knows of
a way that we can help, please let us know.
However, in the midst of difficulties, the angels still work. While watching
and praying for those people. I remembered stories I had read about people
literally asking angels to provide a guard or a fence around them or their
property. On one occasion, a Florida orange grower actually claimed to have
saved a crop of oranges from frost by asking angels to stand guard: his was the
only crop in the area that did not freeze. In another instance, a woman
silently posted angel guards around her house, one at each corner. Later, a
small child told her he had seen four angels around her house as he passed it.
I knew the angels would be active as Hurricane Charley drew nearer. But would
people think to ask for help in that way?
A few days later, Beth Dewey of Orlando, sent a writeup to another e-zine. As
she explained, her father is dying of cancer and could not possible go to a
shelter, so Beth, her mother and Dad decided to ride out the storm together at
Beth’s home. It was risky, because Beth lives in a mobile home, and so do her
parents, “As the storm approached, I prayed that God would steer it in another
direction,” Beth says, “but God did not honor that request. Instead, He set
Charley on a path straight to us.”
As the winds blew, Beth sat and prayed, and wondered if God knew what He was
doing. She tried to remember that “if He brings me to it, He will surely bring
me through it.” Hopefully, although she saw no signs, angels were posted around
their family’s homes.
Eventually the storm passed, and Beth was amazed to discover that her trailer
seemed relatively untouched. And they also had electricity, although many of
their neighbors did not. “This was a TRUE blessing because my Dad would not have
survived the heat,” Beth says.
But perhaps the best angelic answer occurred when the three of them opened
Beth’s door and stepped outside to check the other trailer. For some time it
had needed a new roof, but Beth’s parents could not afford to provide it. Now,
all three looked with awe at the second trailer. It had no damage along the
sides or, as they later discovered, inside. But a tree had fallen completely
through the roof, making it un-fixable. The insurance company would give them a
new one, at no expense.
We cannot infer that prayer works magic. There are plenty of hurricane victims
who prayed, yet lost so much. And there are others who never thought of asking
for angelic aid, but came out relatively unscathed. This is part of the mystery
of life that we will understand only when we reach heaven.
But as many people know—and more learn every day—it never hurts to ask. “When
you think God doesn’t hear you,” says Beth, “let me assure you that He does,
just not in the ways you might expect.”
Copyrighted 2000 by Joan
Wester Anderson. For more stories of God's love, check the website at:
www.joanwanderson.com.Copyrighted 2000 by Joan Wester Anderson.
For more stories of God's love, check the website at: www.joanwanderson.com
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