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A Day in the Life of Donna

This happened to me on my way to the We Care Retreat. It was pretty funny!!   All of the We Care staff were invited to a three-day retreat in northern Alabama in May. Just after I left the house heading to the retreat, I was about a mile away from home just sitting at a red light getting ready to get on the interstate. While waiting for the light to turn green, I was praying and inviting the Lord into my day, to lead and guide me, grant His protection, etc.

About that time I heard a car honking its horn behind me (honk, honk, honk), so I looked around thinking they couldn’t be honking at me; I wasn’t doing anything wrong, so I kept talking to the Lord. I kept hearing this horn honking and was thinking, “Man, that person is upset at someone,” and again kept talking to the Lord. Well, then I saw this car in my rear view mirror with this red spikey-haired lady flailing her arms out the window of a beat up, old, in bad need of a paint job Gremlin car. There was a fellow of some type hanging out the other window also flailing his arms. All the while they were honking the horn. They went from the third lane of traffic all the way over to behind me then around me (all the time honking and flailing) and then pulled up beside me on the right. They were hanging out the window making some hand gestures with a fist turning left then right and left again. Then they pointed to the back of my car, still making the hand gestures left and right. I didn't know what was going on. 

Suddenly  I figured it out! They were telling me I had left my keys in the trunk lock thingie. I gave them a thumbs up and said thanks. At this point they realized they were in the middle of the intersection but not in any lane. They wanted to go straight but were not in line to do so. I decided to wave them on in front of me when the light changed since they had just gone to all that trouble to let me know my keys were in the trunk. When the light changed to green they pulled in front of me and went on their merry way. I pulled into the next drive- way of a business to retrieve my keys, and then it hit me! The Lord will go to extraordinary lengths to keep one of his from losing her keys on the Interstate and to bless the Gremlin couple with prayer. I prayed for them for the next thirty minutes, and I am sure they are saved and in church by now. Actually, I have continued to pray for them, and I am sure our encounter was His design.  Isn't God just humorous sometimes?  

That's my story, hope you enjoyed  it.

By Donna Wyatt

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