--NO COINCIDENCES WITH OUR LORD~~
~~~~MYSTERIOUS WAYS~
--GUIDEPOSTS~
~~MY HUSBAND, Luke, and I didn't expect to stay in our first house long. We were young, with big dreams and small pockets. It was the perfect starter home, one we planned to trade in for something bigger when we could. But life had other plans: Our son, Bernard, and our daughter, Samantha. By the time we could afford to move, it was too late. Our little house had worked its way into our hearts. So we put our savings back into the home for some much-needed renovations.
Our latest project was our son's bedroom ceiling. It had darkened and cracked with water damage. We'd been eyeing industrial-chic concrete ceilings for a while and decided to test out the new style in Bernard's room before using it in the rest of the house. Workers installed a metal framework, then smoothed wet concrete over it.
I inspected the concrete finish. "It'll look better when it dries, I said.
"I hope so, said Luke. "It looks a bit unstable."
He turned to Bernard. "Are you sure you want to sleep here, buddy? You could sleep in your sister's room tonight."
"No!" said Bernard, with all the stubbornness of a 12-year-old.
"I want to sleep in my own room!"
"Don't worry. The installers knew what they were doing," I told Luke. We put the kids to bed, each in their own room, and turned in.
CRASH! I jerked awake. The first thing I saw were the glowing numbers on my alarm clock. 4:57. The second was Luke, racing out of our bedroom.
"Bernard!" he yelled.
My body tensed.
Oh, no. The ceiling collapsed! I hurried to Bernard's room. Luke was scrabbling through the debris that covered our son's bed. "Bernard!" he cried. "Can you hear me?"
"Mom?"
I spun around. Bernard stood in the hallway, clutching his sister's hand. I gathered both kids into my arms.
"Where were you?" I asked.
"Sammy's room."
"What were you doing there?"
"The mosquitoes in my room were bothering me. They woke me up."
Mosquitoes? .... They'd never troubled Bernard before, certainly not enough to wake him and make him flee to his sister's room. It was more than mosquitoes that saved my son that night.
It was the One who sent them. ~~
-"Thank You, Lord, that You answer our prayers even before we ask. Bless your holy Name, Jehovah Jireh, our Provider." --GUIDEPOSTS/AW~ --"Help Is On The Way"// (lyric video) Amanda Lindsey Cook //<
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