Late Night Angel

This past weekend we have been reminded in several ways that we are always suppose to share Gods wonderful love and acts of grace! We often have these moments when we just think, “ oh weren’t we lucky when they came to our rescue!” Or, “ can you believe that we were just in the right place at the right time?” But as Christians, we do not believe in luck or “coincidence”. Our lives are arranged and planned by Our Creator God.

Every day of my life is orchestrated to allow sometimes trials, sometimes wonderful blessings that can only be explained by God..

Some of you might read this and just think to yourself that our story was no big deal. But to us, I can’t tell you how thankful we were for God seeing us at our point of need.

Friday night we were coming home rather late from helping some dear friends with a medical need. . We now live in an over 55 community where it is pretty much a ghost town after 10 pm. We drove into the parking lot about 11:15 and on our way to the door where we enter the building, Randy fell. I carry a towel in the car for times when he falls in parking lots so his knees have some padding while getting him up from the ground. I got the towel out of the car and folded it and placed it on the concrete walkway! Since there was nothing for him to grab onto except his walker, it was hard to pull him up! After trying for 15 min or so I finally admitted defeat and told him I needed to call 911 to come get him up when I look at the door and see a younger man (when I say younger, he was probably 55-60 which is now younger to us ) coming outside to see if we needed help! I ask him where he came from as there was no one downstairs in the main club room at that time of night. He told us that he decided to go take his dog out for a late night stroll and he had been out back by the pool behind the club house when he looked through two sets of double doors and saw us out in the dark struggling! He and I were then able to get Randy up and on our way into the building to go upstairs to our apartment !

Before the man went on his way I told him that the Lord had sent him to us and could not believe he had come to our rescue. It is times like these that remind us of Gods goodness and protection over us. He is a personal God to each of us, not just some god who lives in the Heavens above looking down on us! We rejoice that He uses people to help and He answers our prayers. Not always in the way we expect and sometimes not in our time frame that we would like, but He does answer and He is a God of love and goodness. If you could see how far the man was away from us being able to see us thru the clubhouse outside to the front, you would be amazed at how kind our Savior and Lord was to us Friday night!