BY THE GRACE OF GOD | George P. Millett |
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God sometimes sends to us the most unlikely candidates to give us aid or support. This was the case for me in April as I was recovering from prostate surgery. My dear wife had died, my only child was working overseas and I was weak and alone in my two-bedroom apartment. The third day after the operation I was a complete jelly, and found myself totally wiped out. However, God had seen my need and had sent me His angel in the form of young woman parishioner from my church. She organized my trip to the emergency department. Before sending me home, the nurse outfitted me with a new leg bag for my catheter. In doing so she shortened the stock issue hose and reinserted the connecting nipple, securing the whole with pink plastic sticky tape. The Doctor strongly felt I should not be left alone, and so my angel took me to her house for the night. Next day being Sunday, this lovely caregiver, my angel left me comfortable in her living room with her two dogs, while she went to church. While sitting there reading a book, I suddenly felt that things had gone wrong with the catheter plumbing, and had to beat a hasty retreat to her downstairs bathroom. There, with great difficulty I was able to unravel the tape to find that the hose fitting had parted. I was able to put things back together, but no tape to hold it together! I was hobbling around in a strange house, holding things together with one hand, wondering where I could find tape, duck tape, anything, and really feeling quite desperate. I was standing at a loss in the living room when the malemute cross dog came down the stairs carrying something in its mouth. He dropped this about a foot from my slipper. It was a plastic bobbin of 3M magic tape. Later when my angel came home, I told her about this amazing turn of events. She said she had no idea she had a roll of this tape upstairs, and this particular dog was not given to carrying things in his mouth. I was the recipient of God's wondrous attention for he had surely spoken to the dog that day! This type of Damascus experience restores the faith of the often-flagging believer and is a magnificent display of God's Grace in action.
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