Just in Time

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November 29, 2008

Joann Farrell in Yorktown Heights, New York, recounts the time her husband had just come out of heart surgery and her kids had moved to New York City, leaving her with sole snow-removal duties. Neighbors helped, but one day, in March of 1996, it was just too much. A major storm. And out there in the driveway, trying to grapple with it, Joann broke down in tears.

“As I took a break, with tears running down my face, I was thinking that I will never be able to shovel out the mound the town plow had left across the bottom of the driveway,” she remembers. “I stood there looking at all I still had to do, and then saw headlights coming from a few blocks away. They

turned up my road and as they came closer I could see it was a pickup truck with a plow on the front. I thought to myself, ‘boy, someone is lucky to have that truck coming to them.’

“Well, that truck went past all the other houses and stopped in front of mine. It cleared snow that was blocking the whole bottom of my driveway! It then went up to the corner, came back down, and plowed more across the bottom. I was so shocked I just stood leaning on my shovel looking at ‘them.’

There were two men in the truck, Joann says. One with the “whitest” hair who was driving and one with stark black hair sitting in the passenger seat.

When they finished clearing the bottom of the driveway, they backed up a little, both looked at Joann and smiled, waved, and then drove away. Joann never approached them or spoke to them. She seemed to be rooted to her spot.

“As I watched them drive away, I noticed that the truck was solid white with no commercial writing on it. It was a strange truck as the back almost looked more like a boat than a truck. I had never seen that truck before, nor have I seen it since. In the 27 years I have been a homeowner I have never had anyone come and plow my driveway out like that. I felt very peaceful, and an overwhelming feeling that I was not alone settled over me.”

We know we are not alone. God proves it to us every day.