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| "The angel of the Lord camps around those that love
and respect Him, and delivers them." Psalms 34:7
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was a cold winter in 1997 as we tried to survive in our camper and a
little tiny one room shack that was 20' by 15 feet. We slept in the camper
and used the kitchen and eating space and restroom of the little shack. We
were strapped financially because we were still making payments on our
home in Portland which still had not sold. We wanted to be
near Ron and his work without the danger of icy travel to see each other.
After many days of icy roads, there was a break in the weather. We were
very low on food and I had to get to the grocery store in Tri Cities. I
needed tofu and other health foods that could not be found locally. My
youngest son and daughter were left home with a sleeping daddy while I
took the two older boys into town to get groceries. Roads were slippery
and it took a very long time. In the little house on the prairie, the
little ones were quietly drawing and playing at the table when they
smelled smoke. They thought it was the crock pot that was cooking beans. |
 
They unplugged the slow cooker crock pot, tried to turn the stove off and then ran to
wake up daddy. But instead of turning the stove off they turned another
burner on. Daddy was too tired to get up.
When they came back from our little camper where daddy was sleeping, there
was was a fire on the stove. |
They ran back and urged daddy to come quick because of the fire. He sprinted through the snow with shoes half on, dashed past the fire to get a towel in bathroom, dunked it in the toilet and slapped out the fire. They were giggling because the towel went into the toilet. They watched their daddy with admiration. He always knew just what to do.
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| When I returned from the store with food, the home was empty. I expected this for it was prayer meeting night. As I entered, I was alarmed at the smell of smoke and the blacked stove and shelves. I worried that my little ones might be at the hospital with daddy instead of at the church. I had feelings of remorse that I had not insisted they go when they wanted to stay near daddy and quietly color pictures. I left the groceries and hurried over to the church. I was so relieved to see the children. They both tried to tell me the story at once. This made a big impression on their lives. I was so proud of my little children for the way they handled that emergency. When they saw the problem was beyond their expertise, they ran for daddy. |
My oldest son confessed that he had turned the stove on to fix up the hand warmer. These hand warmers by boiling them, they are ready to again be used in emergency to warm up hands by bending them. When he saw mama going out the door he totally forgot to turn off the stove. I never thought to look for I had not turned it on. The children were all very responsible about not turning it on without watching it so I had nothing to worry about. (I thought) When you see that a problem is too big for you, do you pray to your Daddy in heaven? He can put out any fire, He can do anything He wants to. He loves to answer prayers. I think it could be His favorite thing.
I am so thankful to our loving God for his protection. |
 "The angel of the Lord encampeth round about them that fear Him, and delivereth them." Psalm 34:7. God commissions His angels to save His chosen ones from calamity, to guard them from "the pestilence that walketh in darkness" and "the destruction that wasteth at noonday." Psalm 91:6. Again and again have angels talked with men as a man speaketh with a friend, and led them to places of security. Again and again have the encouraging words of angels renewed the drooping spirits of the faithful and, carrying their minds above the things of earth, caused them to behold by faith the white robes, the crowns, the palm branches of victory, which overcomers will receive when they surround the great white throne. {AA 153.2}It is the work of the angels to come close to the tried, the suffering, the tempted. They labor untiringly in behalf of those for whom Christ died. |
