"Thirty years ago I left an order of nuns and had little
money to survive but was lucky to get a housekeeping job with a parish
priest," writes one, Marilyn Dubas, of Omaha, Nebraska. "After two years there I saved enough money for a down payment on a home. I did not have any credit but was allowed to
buy it anyway.
"Six years later as I was laying on the
couch resting a bright light came into my home and a voice said, 'I
have someone I want you to take care of.' I said 'Who Lord?' and He
said, 'You will know and there will always be enough.'
"I had a leading
to go to a Catholic dance hall that Sunday and there was a man with a
blue shirt with roses on the pattern in a descending position. I was
reminded of the Little Flower St. Thérèse and her promise to spend her
eternity sending roses down on the earth).
"I didn't speak to him at
the time because I wanted a confirmation from God that this was the
one. I went home and prayed that if this man was God's choice, then I
would go to another dance hall the following Sunday, and if he came to
another dance hall with the same shirt, and if he was a jack of all
trades, I would know God was sending him!
"Sure enough: the following Sunday
(Easter Sunday 1986) here he comes wearing the blue shirt.
"I went and asked if he
was a 'jack of all trades.' And he said yes! Our courtship began. I
found out he had been laid off and was living with his mother, who was
82 at the time.
"Within a year his mother died. He
had only a handful of tools and a beat-up truck but he had always
provided for his mother."
Here, we flash forward:
"Now after 25 years of marriage we are
both doing well." says Marilyn.
"And I still know that God will provide for those who
trust in Him!"
Indeed!
"I am
writing to you today about my husband's 'angel experience,' which
touched me profoundly," writes another, Tanya Guthrie of Fredricksburg,
Virginia.
"It happened before we were married. These events are totally true and
not exaggerated in any way.
"It
had been a difficult time... I was still reeling from the aftereffects
of my parents' divorce (even at the age of an early twenty-something).
I wanted to believe that my future husband truly loved me (he had not
proposed to me yet). After all, did true love really exist? Were
permanent relationships even possible?
"I
was hurting a lot. I thought my husband was more interested at the
time in his band and bass guitar than me (though later I would know
that that was never the case!).
"My
husband remembers awakening in the middle of the night by a light
by his bed. He was clearly awake and not dreaming -- yet he was unable
to move. He was totally paralyzed -- not able to look directly at the
light. He remembers glimpsing white feathery wings by peripheral
vision, fluttering gently.
"A
warmth not from this world filled his soul and body with an incredible
peace and sense of love. Then,
he heard words; they weren't audible, but rather spoken firmly
into his mind/soul; no voice he knew but certainly addressing
him -- of this he has no doubt.
"The
voice said, 'You must love her.'
"Then, the light and warmth faded and
he was no longer paralyzed but immediately tears started to flow.
"When I saw him the next morning, he was crying and he hugged me gently
and told me what had transpired. He told me from the depths of his
heart, 'I love you.' I knew at that moment for sure that he would be
my forever husband. I found out later that my husband had long ago prayed
many times 'for a girl to
love.'
"Sometime after that first angel encounter, we were sitting in a local
sandwich shop in a booth near the window and suddenly there was a
quick, clear knock at that window and an elderly, kind-eyed man
stood on the other side of the pane, waving directly at us in
greeting.
"My future husband and I looked at each other with the same
look of awe and wonder in our eyes. While the man stood there smiling
at us, we were compelled to get up out of the booth
immediately
and go
to the nearby door.
"We knew this was no ordinary man; somehow, we
just knew (without saying anything to each other)!
"We stepped out
of the shop only to find that the sidewalk was completely empty. There was no where he could have gone, especially so
quickly! Well, as the years passed, we often wondered about that
'man': was he the same angel who had appeared at my husband's
bedside? It was almost as if the old man in the window was waving at us... looking at us... with reassurance in his eyes... as if to say,
'My work is done. You know now that love
exists. You know now that love is not something to be whisked away at
the whims of foolish people. You know now that God is Love. There is
no other Love like it. This Love is Forever!"
Break Open Your
Wells, by Maria Vadia,
another anointed, Spirit-led book of surprising little insights on how best we
open the reserves of grace, joy, and healing that are within us -- how we can
fully utilize the gifts God gives us by inner cleansing and discovery of the
'living waters' -- the wells -- that are waiting to refresh and transform our
lives and the lives of those around us! Deliverance, praise, and unlocking our love
for Christ!
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