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A COINCIDENCE?
Topic: Miracle
This past Saturday I was helping my uncle and aunt with their yard sale. My uncle likes to go to estate auctions and if a box of books goes cheap enough, he buys them. He gives most of them away, and had asked me to go through the books and pull out the inspirational and religious books to be put in a box that said "Free."
For some reason I was drawn to open this one small book. I can't even tell you what the title was, I don't remember, because I saw that a name had been written along with the name of a town not too far away. What stunned me was that this book, which was over 40 years old, had belonged to the daughter of a lady in my church. She was the only child the lady had ever had, and she was killed in a car accident over 30 years ago! The only reason I had recognized the name is because I had gone to a ladies night out at our church a few weeks ago and this woman had given her testimony and told her how God had helped her recover from losing her only child. Her daughter was only 25 and six weeks away from her wedding when she was tragically killed.
Of course, as soon as the yard sale was over I ran over to their home to give them their daughter's book. Her husband was the only one home. I gave it to him and he opened it and saw her name and his eyes filled with tears. I was worried that I had upset him, and started apologizing, and he cut me off with, "No, it's all right, it's just that I was sitting here thinking about my little girl and how hard it was going to be to go through another Father's Day without her."
"Well," I said, "It looks like she was thinking of you, too, because she sent you this Father's Day present!"
Their daughter had donated that book in a book drive a year or two before her death. Somehow, over the 30 years since then, the book had traveled hither and yon and finally made it to someone who knew about the girl who had died so many years ago. Coincidence? Or a gift to a grieving father on Father's Day from heaven? I just thank God not only for still being in the miracle business, but allowing average people like me to be a part of His healing work.
-- Cheryl Norwood <luvbirds@gateway.net>