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28 Dec 2004 08:43:31 PM |
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Touched by God! |
WHEN GOD WANTS TO SPEAK, SOMETIMES HIS SIGNS ARE MEANT LITERALLY
We continue to receive many testimonies of the wondrous ways in which
God works. The letters have come from as far away as Sri Lanka. They
are all testimony to the fact that God is always with us, always
watching, and on occasion allowing us a glimpse at His Presence! Yes,
it is true that God allows the occurrence of disasters. They are a
mysterious part of His plan, and we are seeing an increase in them.
But no matter what the event in these special times, and especially in
our own, small, private lives, God is always there.
Sometimes His signs are literal ones.
A correspondent named Maureen Wellik of Middletown, Delaware, writes
that her experience came in the form of a license plate -- as so many
others report (see previous article).
"I was on my way home from work and was complaining to God about the
state of my spiritual life for about 15 minutes, just going on and
on," recalls Maureen. "I was telling God about how hard I was trying
and I wasn't seeing any progress. I was getting more and more
distraught and frustrated and finally yelled at God like a spoiled
child having a tantrum, 'What is it that you want from me? What is it
that I need to say to you?? What are the words that you want to
hear???' With that a car pulled in front of me with the license plate
that read 'YESGOD.'"
You discern.
"I was driving to my summer home in Pennsylvania," notes another
viewer, Madelyn from New York (some request anonymity). "It was dusk
and my father was with me in the front passenger seat asleep. I was
driving on I-80 and was in the far left lane going about ten miles per
hour over the speed limit.
"Suddenly I felt as if someone put a hand on my right shoulder and
pulled me as if they we going to whisper in my ear. The 'voice' told
me to slow down and move to the right. I remember turning my head and
looking into the back seat. I literally shook my head and continued
driving. Suddenly, 'floating' in the car, very bright and yellow, was
a deer-crossing sign. It was dancing as if it wanted me to notice it.
Floating across, up, and down in the front of the car," claims this
reader.
"I slowed down and moved to the far right lane, still watching the
dancing sign as a white truck whisked past me. I slowed down so
quickly my father awoke and asked me what was wrong. The sign was gone
as quickly as it appeared; my father never saw it. I now was turning
into the bend in the road and right before me was the white
truck that passed me crashed on the side of the road. It hit a deer
that was standing in the far left lane! The driver was hurt and his
shinny truck was very badly damaged. I only confided to my father
about what had occurred because I feared no one would believe me."
Always, there are angel accounts in the mix. When the husband of a
reader from New Jersey was ready to retire, after 35 years of service,
he was heartbroken at the cold and unappreciative way the military was
treating him.
"He was very sad and as I drove him home from the Army Post that
night," writes his wife Susan. "I decided to pull over to get a bite
to eat at a restaurant, and while we were there a woman quietly came
up to us, placed her hand on my husband's shoulder and gently said to
him, 'Thank you so much for serving our country, thank you so much for
all your time and efforts; it means so much to me.' Then she handed
him gift cards that paid for our dinner.
"We thanked her, and my husband got up from his chair to catch up to
her to thank her again for the beautiful gesture, but she was gone!
There was no way she could have just vanished that quickly. My husband
went outside doubting she could have even made it to the door or
outside that quickly.
"We just looked at each other, his eyes welled with tears, and he
said, 'how did she know to say that to me?' I forgot to add that prior
to the restaurant, I prayed aloud in the car with my husband, and I
told God that I believed He was with us even when no one else might
be, that I would look for his Presence in the events of our day. I
looked for the fingerprint of God, only to feel his gentle hand upon
my husband's shoulder that night speaking words of encouragement."
God never forgets us. If we handle them the right way, trials are
followed by double the blessings. Or more signs. How about some roses?
Writes Kathie Marshall from Howell, Michigan:
"I was at home one day with my three small children, five, three, and
one at the time. The two little ones were napping and my five-year-old
seemed occupied for the moment so I thought I'd steal a little free
time to watch a video about the life of St. Faustina.
"The video described a moment in Sr. Faustina's life when, frustrated
with some of her difficult kitchen duties, she proceeded to pull the
top of a large, heavy pot that she was to wash and when she looked in,
the pot was filled with roses. At that moment, she interiorly heard
that the performance of her daily duties ascended to the throne of God
like the scent of roses. She was immediately consoled and continued
with her chores.
"I was feeling a little neglected, I suppose, because I'd never
received any such consolation and I thought my duties with my three
small boys were far more demanding than lifting a heavy pot! 'At least
she gets to finish washing it,' I thought.
"I thought about how thrilled I'd be if I ever got to finish half the
things I started. At least she can sit and finish a meal in peace; at
least she has time for silent prayer every day; and the list went on
as I bemoaned the busy life of a mom with young kids.
"Sure enough, before the video ended my five-year-old came to me
asking if I'd go help him play solitaire on the computer. He was too
young to play alone. I wanted to tell him 'not now' so I could finish
the video that I had been waiting to get a chance to watch. But I felt
the tug of motherhood and said 'I'll be right there.' I turned off the
video and went to the computer to turn on the solitaire game.
"Anyone familiar with the computer knows that Micosoft Windows can
have a variety of backgrounds or 'wallpapers.' When the background had
loaded, I was astonished to be viewing a screen full of computerized
ROSES! I had never seen this background before. I sat there rather
speechless as I began to comprehend what it might mean.
"My little boy piped up, 'I've never seen THAT before!' I was a bit
skeptical, so later I said to myself, 'if I turn the computer off and
on again and it is not there then I will know that God meant that for
me at that moment.'
"I turned the computer off and when I turned it back on, the roses
were gone and there was a different background in its place. I later
learned that there was a setting which would alternate backgrounds
automatically and the roses just happened to pop up at that time,
though I didn't even know there was a rose background. I had not
changed this setting and my son was too young to know how to do it. It
is a mystery to me how that setting got changed and the only
explanation is that God needed to change it to speak to me!
"I truly believe He spoke clearly to me that day about the immense
meaning and significance our little daily duties have, particularly
those acts that aren't written about in saint books, like playing a
game with our children when we'd rather be watching a video or reading
a magazine.
"I was very consoled by that and I did take it as a communication from
God. I now have nine children and am even busier than I was then --
but I still think back to that and it does help me some days to
remember all the little duties which seem so un-spiritual have such a
great spiritual significance when we try to do it out of love."
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