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Comb!
He was visiting friends in Florida when he lost his comb. He borrowed one and went with his friend on an outing.
While they were on the outing, his friend’s wife went for a bike ride. Almost home, she sees a comb on the sidewalk, stopped to pick it up, took it home and disinfected it. When he got back to the house she presented the comb to him, telling him she had found it on her ride.
The story of manna from heaven is a classic biblical story. Of course, it was not the comb he lost. Before heading home he found his comb in the pocket of a pair of shorts he had worn. The story demonstrates the way we are provided for in surprising ways.After escaping Egypt the Israelite people were in need of food, and he was in need of a comb!
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Handyman!
Shortly after she posted the Sacred Story “Screwdriver” she mentioned the story to some friends she was on a Zoom call with.
One of the participants on Zoom unmuted and said, “After my husband passed I would occasionally find Cheerios in places that I know no one had been or spaces that had obviously been cleaned many times since he had actually been there to have them. I knew it was his way of letting me know he was still with me. It sounds to me like you had a visit from a handyman.”
Between the posting of the “Screwdriver” Sacred Story and logging onto the Zoom meeting she and another friend had been on a call with a dear friend who was navigating a very challenging situation with a neighbor. The neighbor had cognitive loss with no family support.
The neighbor’s situation was triggering deep pain. The stress of not being able to really do what the neighbor needed to be done was causing her to experience some heart symptoms. Her own family was concerned about her and telling her she needed to step away from the neighbor’s situation. She was feeling helpless and hopeless about her neighbor being all alone!
This friend had an especially raw spot for her neighbor’s situation because this friend had undergone her own husband’s Alzheimer’s disease…. and he had been a handyman!!!!
Wow. The name of the friend’s husband’s business had been House Calls. It was immediately known who this “handyman” that had paid a visit was!
“I will never leave you nor forsake you” is a Bible verse that appears in Hebrews 13:5 and Deuteronomy 31:6. It’s a promise!
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Screwdriver
As he came around to his wife’s side of the bed he saw a small screwdriver on the floor. He picked it up and put it on her nightstand. When he mentioned having picked it up to her later that day, she went in to see it. She had never seen that screwdriver!
She looked up the symbolic meaning and discovered that in both Christianity and Judaism, the screwdriver relates to God’s purpose for people and the use of tools to fulfill that purpose
In Christianity screwdriver is symbolic of God’s workmanship: People are made by God and have a purpose to do good works. It is about our not being harmful or sinful, but using our abilities for good. An additional meaning can be repentance and the need to “grow up” in Christ.
Within Judaism screwdrivers, and all tools, are to help people fulfill a higher purpose. Especially noteworthy is how God may call people to do things in unexpected ways, and people should be open to this.
I found this online: Examples of things found in places where it seems logically impossible for them to be include: ancient artifacts from a completely different civilization found in a remote location, a perfectly preserved modern object discovered in a fossil layer from millions of years ago, a living creature from a different ecosystem appearing in a totally isolated environment, a human footprint in an area with no known human presence, or a technologically advanced device from the future found in the present day; essentially, anything that disrupts the expected timeline or geographical distribution of objects based on our understanding of history and science.
We can now add finding a screwdriver that does not belong to them right out in the open on their bedroom floor….
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February 10 – This is the Way
She was on a Zoom meeting with a friend. The conversation went to a location in rural central Brazil which they had both been at previously. Her friend quickly sent a text message with a short video to identify a location they were speaking about.
That location was very relevant to the process they were engaged in.
The date the video had been taken was on the video: February 10. She glanced down at the lower right had corner of the screen on her laptop.
“Jesus Christ!” she blurted out. “Today is February 10.”
They both knew they were being guided….
Isaiah 30:21
Whether you turn to the right or to the left, your ears will hear a voice behind you, saying, “This is the way; walk in it.” -
April 7
Manifest is a supernatural drama series on Netflix about the passengers and crew of a plane that mysteriously reappears after being presumed dead for years. The show explores the passengers’ experiences as they adjust to a world that has moved on without them.
Screenshot This is the plot summary online: On April 7, 2013, Montego Air Flight 828 experiences turbulence and disappears. The plane mysteriously lands at Stewart International Airport in Newburgh, New York, five and a half years later. The passengers and crew discover that the world has moved on without them. The passengers begin to experience visions and guiding voices, known as “callings”, that predict future events. Some passengers develop unusual skills, while others are left to deal with the psychological impact of the event. Michaela and her brother Ben believe there is a government cover-up and try to uncover the truth.
They had been watching the series for weeks, but it was not until the last minutes of the last (20th) episode of the last season that they realized the significance: April 7 was their wedding date!!!
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Corinthian Bells Wind Chime
They were planning on buying a gift for friends who lost their mom recently when she suddenly asked him what they were doing for the funeral. He responded, “Maybe flowers?”
Immediately she said, “Let’s get them a wind chime.”
He went back and forth if it was a good idea and sent a text message to the friend’s daughter asking her opinion. “Mom would love a wind chime,” was the response. Corinthian Bells by Wind River was the brand of wind chime they selected.
Their friend loved the wind chime. It was especially meaningful because on the tag from 1 Corinthians Chapter 13 was this verse: “So now faith, hope, and love abide, these three; but the greatest of these is love.”
That was their mom’s favorite bible verse….
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10:10
She spent significant time in prayer as her her mother was coming to live with her due to debilitating rheumatoid arthritis. The Lord gave her assurance in John 10:10 which says, “I have come that they might have life, and that they may have it more abundantly.”
She shared this beautiful message with her mother before framing the promise and placing it in a prominent place in her mother’s room. There it stayed until her mother went into a health and rehabilitation facility.
The morning her mother died — only as she was speaking out loud to a friend that her mother had just gone home to the Lord — the immense power and grace of this verse took on an even greater significance.Her mother’s time of death was 10:10….
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Believe in Yourself
While she is in Florida, her older sister in Michigan is nearing transition in Michigan where her niece is sitting bedside vigil. Her niece offered to share a few intimate photos.
Seeing the words on her sister’s shirt, tears of sacredness formed in her eyes. She shot a text message back to her niece, “Believe in yourself is on my yoga mat!!! I will take a picture and send it. The funniest thing is when I bought the mat it was rolled up in a bag and I had no idea it had words on it.”The letters in the phrase that spell out BE YOU are highlighted in hot pink on her yoga mat and that message had come to mean so much to her…. something her sister had consistently demonstrated throughout her life.
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Perfect Timing
She asked her husband to grab a sleeper for their newborn baby girl.
He did not consciously realize it was the sleeper their daughter’s older brother had worn on this exact day three years ago.
Perfect timing….