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Too Strange For Arithmetic
I got a call from a Men’s Retreat that I had lead for several years on the West Coast. They wanted to set up a phone call allowing me to say a few words and stay connected to the group because my physical condition kept me from being there in person. Over the years this group and I had become quite close. The retreat was in the mountains and they were having technical difficulties with the telephone system. Even though they had one of the top professional sound men working on the project, the camp was not cooperative in letting the group use their phone lines. Without a line they couldn’t set up the phone system to make the call work. The camp even used the excuse that the lady across the road complained about everything that they did and they were afraid that the generator would interfere with her television.
Just as the technician was saying that it looked impossible a man and his son walked in who worked for the telephone company and were there to attend the conference. They had driven up in their phone truck and had the tools and spurs for climbing the pole. Now they needed to talk to the neighbor about using her phone line. She graciously invited them in, agreed to what they wanted, gave them lemonade and even hugged them when they left! Mission accomplished. When they called me I could hear them and through the sound system all the fellas could hear me. So many things happened against the odds that we have to give the Lord credit.
Many times His work defies human mathematics.
Non-believers may call these “coincidences” but we are happy to see them as evidences of God’s active presence in our everyday life.
This week look for divine participation in our everyday life. Tell them to a friend for he or she may be needing the inspiration at this very time.
