Story of the Week, November 19, Near Miss
Hello, angel lovers. During this special time of year, TV and Hollywood seem to suspend the usual crime and violence and concentrate on heartwarming programs, both the old favorites and new G-rated entries which may turn out to be classics. The problem is remembering when such fare appears, and gathering the family together to watch it. Thus I was thrilled to stumble across a website titled “A Guide to Good Holiday TV.” The listings started a few days ago and will continue until December 26th. Some of the shows are re-run several times, but it gives us all a second or third chance to tune in.
One inexplicable annoyance: along with the nice family-fare list, this site promotes “hot babes” wearing bikinis…it just doesn’t seem to fit and I left a comment to that effect. But the list is great: check it at http://tv.popcrunch.com/2009-christmas-tv-specials-and-movies-schedule.
Eileen Knecht has started making a Baby Jesus doll (“I want to put him back in the crib where he belongs,” she says.) Visit her site and see what she’s doing: www.k-connect.com ~ for pictures and info.
And here’s our story:
Rebekah Manthei was glad to have a job in her family’s hardwood flooring business in northern Michigan, even though it was physically demanding. Part of her job was to get flooring orders together in the warehouse, and she did this by finding the product and moving it with a forklift. Different woods were arranged in different locations so, depending on the products, it took a lot of moving and rearranging to get an order together.
“One day we received an order very late, that needed to be ready first thing in the morning,” says Rebekah. “I decided to stay late to get it ready, since it involved an hour or so of moving large stacks of flooring by forklift in order to get to what I needed. One of these stacks was piled almost to the ceiling of the warehouse.”
Rebekah was unaware that someone had left a loose hardwood board on top of the flooring she had started to move. As she began to lift the top bundle from the stack, the loose board fell vertically, aimed right at her head. “I knew I was done for,” Rebekah says. “I closed my eyes and waited for it to hit me, knowing it would most likely kill me.”
A few seconds passed and nothing happened. A couple more seconds… Then Rebekah heard the board clatter as it landed, but it sounded very far away. Slowly she opened her eyes. Everything seemed normal. But where was the board? “Baffled, I got off the forklift and went to find where the board had landed,” Rebekah says. She walked the entire length of the large warehouse, and finally…. At the other end, behind more stacks of flooring, lay the board. There was no way it could possibly have landed there. No way except for one.
“I knew right then that God had sent my guardian angel to protect me,” Rebekah says. To this day she still envisions her angel catching the board in mid air and throwing it across the warehouse. Thank you, angels. Wherever we are you are there with us.
Joan Wester Anderson’s latest book, Moms Go Where Angels Fear to Tread ($13), is published by Guideposts, and can be ordered at 1-800-586-2572. Perfect for young moms. Have a wonderful Thanksgiving.
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That was a wonderful collaboration of Intervention. God loves you LOTS!! What a blessing! Have a WONDERFUL HOLIDAY SEASON!! YOU’VE HELPED ME FEEL THIS YEAR’S HOLIDAY CHEER!