Where Two Ways Met
The boys were so excited and happy as we shopped all day before our Doctor
appointment at three that afternoon. My husband Charlie had the job of keeping
them busy while I picked out gifts to put under the tree. We had purchased new
coats, gloves, and snow boots for both boys and a pram suit for our little
daughter. Charlie and I also had new warm winter coats. Our car was piled with
gifts and food in the trunk and our old coats were in the back seat with the
boys.
My wait was much longer than expected as the doctor had been called to an
emergency at the hospital earlier in the day. I came out of the office to face a
terrible snowstorm. The blizzard conditions were growing worse all the time. My
husband was concerned as to our making it back to our country home about seven
miles from town. He thought about us staying in a motel for the night and then
decided we would try to make it home.
Half way there we found the road was drifted so deep it drowned our car and we
sat stranded in the road. Charlie got out and began the long walk to our home.
He was going to bring our big truck back and pull the car home with it. There
was nothing we could do but wait in the car.
I told stories and we sang nursery rhymes for what seemed like hours. I was
getting more worried by the minute but did not want the children to know I was
so scared. Finally my youngest son John who was three climbed over into the
front seat beside me and said, "Mommy, my daddy is gonna freeze to death out
there. And we will freeze too." I said "No John, Daddy will be coming with the
truck soon!" But the darkness and blowing snow was covering our car and made it
impossible to see anything outside.
John climbed over into the back seat and knelt down on the floorboard of the
car. He prayed, "Jesus you take care of my daddy and send someone to take us
home, amen." Then he got up and put his face against the back window and looked
through a small hole where the snow had blown off. In just a very few minutes he
exclaimed, "Momma there is a car coming to get us! See, I knew Jesus would send
someone to get us!"
I heard the old pickup stop right beside us and I had to kick the frozen car
door open to make him hear me as the window would not roll down. The man said
"My Lord Lady do you have children in there with you?"
I answered "Yes! I have two boys - three and four years old and a year old
little girl and my baby who is only six weeks old."
He began throwing his Christmas gifts and groceries in the back of the old
pickup and helped me carry the children to put in the cab. He scooped and
scooped again. We met my husband walking toward us about a mile ahead. He had
called everyone he knew to come get us and they had all told him they would
after the storm let up. Our truck that he had gone to get was parked in another
little town by my brother who had used it that day.
The man told us he had lived out in that part of the country all his life but
had never taken that road to go home before. He said, "Why I would take a
strange road in such a storm is beyond me. But when I got to the crossroads back
there I just felt I needed to come that way." He said he would have passed us by
if I had not gotten the door kicked open because he thought there was no one in
the car. He took us to our door and then had to stay with a neighbor because he
could not make it to his own home. Every Christmas we always made it a point to
wish Mr. Glascox a Merry Christmas and thank him for his gift of his decision he
made - "Where Two Ways Met."
The next day we found our car had been plowed around on each side by the snow
plow. We had been right in the middle of the road, our little car completely
covered with frozen snow.
Leona Ebling copyright 2002 wwjdleona@aol.com
I have found through all my years (65) I have found God never fails... and my
testimony is "God is good all the time, all the time God is good!" I write
inspirational short stories, novels and children stories. I also love writing
poetry and songs. I have five children, 24 grandchildren and 11 greats now.
Numerous other "Kids" also as I drove a school bus for ten years while my
children were in school. I enjoy the 2theheart page very much. Thanks to all who
share.