Divinely Touched ....

Divinely Touched

   As, from my own belief, I am a good driver. Also felt that God was alive in my heart and life. Each night I pray over my wife, her mother whom we look after, whilst she lives in an 'fold'. (sheltered living) Not a nursing home a step down from this. Any how I also pray for my parents and my brother. Not forgetting our dog.

   Last Monday 9th February I was involved in a car crash, to look at as my wife did on her way past the crushed mangled cars, to meet me in the Hospital. The was guy was also taken to the same Hospital. My wife worried what state I was in let alone the other driver. She thought I was going to badly hurt, which could in turn lead to my death.

   Such was the state of the cars. Both of us drivers were strapped down to the trolleys so as that we could not move as well as have neck collars on. This all took place at around the 10.45/11am. As time went on the collars around our necks came off. Then all the other restraints were taken away.  To the point, after X-rays & CT scans, we could sit up eat and drink. 

   Here's the shocker, by 2.30pm we were both able walk home. Yes you read right, WALK home with out aids given by the Hospital. Now I have a busted spin anyway. So this could have put me in a wheel chair for the rest of my life, needing a lot care for my basic needs.

   God is so good, it defies belief. How we were able get up and walk away from this was a true miracle. God was looking out for me (us), also the fact no one else was in the car which happens very rare as I would have at least my wife in the car.

So a big fat thankyou Lord Jesus, you truly are an awesome God. 

Pause for Thought

Pause for Thought

   His name was Fleming, and he was a poor Scottish farmer. One day, while trying to make a living for his family, he heard a cry for help coming from a near by bog. He dropped his tools and ran to the bog. There, mired to his waist in black muck, was a terrified boy, struggling to free himself. Farmer Fleming saved the lad from what could have been a slow and terrifying death. The next day a fancy carriage pulled up to the Scotsman's sparse surroundings. An elegantly dressed nobleman stepped out and introduced himself, as the father of the boy Farmer Fleming had saved.

   "I want to repay you" said the nobble man. "You saved my sons life". 
   "No, I can't accept payment for what I did" the Scottish farmer replied waving off the offer. At that moment the farmer's own son came to door the of the family hovel.
   "Is that your son?" The Nobble man asked.
   "Yes" The farmer replied proudly.
   "I'll make a deal with you. Let me provide him with the same level of education my own son will enjoy. If the lad is anything like his father, he'll no doubt grow to be a man we both will proud of". and to his word he did that. 

   Farmer Fleming's son attended the very best schools in the time, graduated from St May's Hospital School  in London, went on to become known though out the World as the noted Sir Alexander Fleming. The discoverer of 'Penicillin'. Years afterward the same nobleman's son who was saved from the bog was stricken with Pneumonia.

What saved his life this time - Penicillin
The name of the noble?  - Lord Randolph Churchill
The nobleman's son's name - Sir Winston Churchill

   Act of kindness done with a humble heart, with out the thought of financial reward. This gives mind to the 'Parable of the good Samaritan' . . .
NKJ Luke 
10 V30/65 ". . .A certain man went from Jerusalem to Jericho, and fell among thieves, who     stripped him of his clothing, wounded him, and departed, leaving him half dead. Now by chance a certain priest came down the road. And when he saw him  passed by on the other side of the road. Likewise a Levite, when he arrived at the place, came and looked, and passed be on the other side. But a certain Samaritan, as he journeyed, came where he was. And when he saw him, he had compassion. So he went to him and bandaged his wounds, pouring oil and wine, and he set him on his own animal, brought him to an Inn, and took care of him. On the next day, when he departed, he took out 2 Denarii, then to the Innkeeper, and said to him, 'take care of him, and whatever more you spend, when I come again, I will repay you. . . "

   Because we don't know a stranger seeking help, it may only you who is going to help them. Who are they? What dose God have in store for them? We may never have the answers, we just need to have faith in God that He put us there for a reason. Kindness for kindness sake has all but been eroded from society today, next time there is someone in need, don't do as the priest or Levite, be a Samaritan. Because who knows??