It was about 9 months after I learned to listen, and obey the voice of God. It
was New Year's Day. I just finished serving dinner, dessert, and coffee to a
house full of company. I left food on the table so guests could pick whatever
they wanted. Then I heard a voice telling me to pack up the food and put it in
my car.
I started to pack up the food. My mother said, "There are still people sitting
at the table, what are you doing!?"
I answered, "I have to pack up the food and take it somewhere. Where? I don't
know."
"You are not putting it away in the fridge?"
"No... I have to put it in my car."
My husband said to take his truck because my car's heater didn't work and it was
a very cold and windy night. I told him, "no thanks, I have to use my car."
"Where are you going?" Everyone asked...
"I really don't know yet! But, I have to go... Go where? I know this sounds
crazy...but, I don't know! God will lead me and get me to where He wants me to
go."
OK God, where are you sending me?
Bricktown was His answer. Well Bricktown was approximately 20 minutes away, and
all I knew in the Bricktownship was a shopping center, and the entrance to the
Garden State Parkway, North. That Parkway runs through the state of NJ. I
reminded God that I was low on gas, (most gas stations were closed for the
holiday) and I didn't have a working heater in the car.
Off we went! Go down County Line Road to the end, turn left, stay straight 3
miles, turn right, next two blocks, make a left, then a right, then another
left, go real slow on the next street… Stay on the right and pull into the 4th
driveway...
OK God! We are here, but no one else is! There are no lights on, and everywhere
around the property is dark... Did I get mixed up on the directions?
"KNOCK ON THE DOOR!" Said GOD....
"OK, but..."
"KNOCK ON THE DOOR!" KNOCK AGAIN!"
And so I did... No answer!
So I went to my car and put the bright lights on and went around the back and
the side of the house, and knocked on those doors.
Still no answer!
I was freezing so I went back to my car and shut the lights off -- I didn't want
to get stuck with a dead battery...this was before cell-phones. I also shut the
engine off and then crunched myself into a ball under the woolen cape I was
wearing, sliding down behind the steering wheel.
I started to analyze the A frame house I was sitting in front of, pleading with
God, "Come on tell me what to do!" I slid lower behind the steering wheel, still
staring at the lines of the house... It looked like a little Swiss Chalet and
there was a little glow flickering at the very, very top point of the house!
God, am I seeing right? Is that a candle glowing?
"KNOCK AGAIN! ...AND AGAIN! ...AND AGAIN! BANG ON THAT DOOR! ...DO IT NOW! RIGHT
NOW! BANG ON IT!"
The door slowly opened. A woman was standing there in a robe, and her hair
wrapped in a towel.
"I'm sorry to bother you" I said, "But, do you know anyone who needs food? I was
told to bring food here, but I don't know if I am at the right address..."
The woman started to cry.
I said, "I don't mean to offend you, maybe it's for someone you know..."
She was sobbing now!
I hugged her...and she was shaking!
"I apologize for upsetting you…"
Sobbing she said, "You don't understand!"
I thought to myself you are so right, I don't understand.
Still sobbing she told me that she had 3 children, one a new born, only a few
days old. Her husband was in the hospital with an inoperable brain tumor. There
was no heat or electric on in the house, and she was out of food.
WELL.,I GOT THE FOOD PART RIGHT!
She was standing in the bathroom, with her husband's police revolver... pleading
with God.
She couldn't make her children freeze or starve to death... So she was going to
kill them and herself... THEN THERE WAS BANGING ON THE DOOR!
GLAD I GOT THE ADDRESS RIGHT!!!
I told her not to worry, that God said everything was going to be OK. So, I
pulled my car right up to her doorway. It lit up the entire house. We packed
things for her and the children and I took them home…
Home to a warm house, warm food, warm hearts, and a miracle none of us will ever
forget!
THANK YOU GOD !
© Carole Devecka God Given Daisies
CaroleDevecka@comcast.net
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