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I was almost
8 months pregnant when we moved into military housing in Hawaii.
I was ordered to complete bedrest. We already had a very active 4
year old and I was all alone. My husband was in the Navy, and out
to sea. My family was half way around the world in Ohio. The
movers had moved us into our quarters on a Wed. and were to be
coming back to pick up the boxes sometime later that week. (Now,
if any of you have ever been a military spouse, you know that we
are only seen as our spouse's social security number. Names are
not an important factor.) Well, as I said, I was confined to bed
and I heard a knock on the door. I went to answer it and there
was a man with a moving van. He told me that he was there to pick
up the boxes. I showed him where he could find them. In a storage
closet off of the porch, on the outside of the house. I then told
him that I needed to get back to bed and just to pull the door
shut when he was through. A few minutes had past, and again, I
heard a knock on the door. It was him. He said he didn't want to
disturb me, but that he had an important message from God. He
called me by name and he said "God loves YOU very much and
is with you whatever you go through. He will never leave
you." Then he turned to get into the van. He was almost
there when he said....."The next time I see you will be in
Heaven. You take care now." Needless to say I was at awe.
How did he know my name? There was nothing in the storage area at
all, nothing with my name on it, yet he knew it. And as I said
earlier, in the military they do not include a spouses name with
any kind of paperwork, and besides, I never saw any. So.....it
brought me great comfort during the last month and a half of my
pregnancy. Things seem to go not to badly.....that was until the
day our baby Christopher was born. I was scheduled for another
routine C-section and it was to be on a Mon. The day after his
Dad's birthday. When I went to have all my pre-surgery tests
done, the doctors would not let me go home. My blood pressure was
elevated and they insisted that I be admitted for observance. It
is hot in Hawaii in Sept. and the Trade Winds that blow go dead.
I was in a very old Army Hospital and it had not been renovated
at that time. I shared a room with a lady who had some kind of
infection and was not allowed to have the window open. So, to say
the least, I was miserable. It was on Sun night about 8:00 when
they decided to put a fetal monitor on me. Within an hour I was
being rushed into an operating room heading for an emergency
C-section. They were not able to anastitse me and had to start
operating to get the baby out. They tied me down to the table and
a nurse stood by my ear encouraging me to be "stoic".
When the baby was born he seemed fine, but within a few minutes,
after my husband had gone home, the baby turned blue and went
into cardiac arrest. As I lay in the recovery room I thought
about the man who came to me that day in a moving van......MY
ANGEL. I repeated over and over the words God sent with him. Over
the next few months I clung to them to give me strength as my
baby went through being on a resperator, pneumonia, and a
collapsed lung. Eventually, Chris, did improve and became a
wonderfully healthy, yet strong willed, child. You see, he had
been born with persistant fetal circulation. Which means, that a
valve in his heart never closed. But thank God, he was born in a
hospital that had a machine that 'taught' him how to breath.
There have been many more times since then, that I have felt
alone and God's words come floating back to me.....the words this
man, or should I say, 'angel', of God spoke to me. They have
given me strength and encouragement and I have felt the presence
of my loving and wonderful, caring God. I thank Him always for
sending my special messenger to me on that warm day in Hawaii.
Angel
songs to the children
It was my
second year of teaching 4 year olds at a wonderful private
Christian school in Hawaii when I encountered another brief
experience with God's messengers. Every thing was going so well
that school year. I had finely learned the secret of
communicating with preschoolers. My class was a joy. They were
all learning about themselves and their environment and we were
all very happy to be spending most of our waking time together.
But something unusual was happening right under my nose and I was
too blind to see. For days the children had been singing these
lovely songs about God. I was too 'busy' to take the time to
really listen to them. I guess this had gone on for at least 3
days when things just couldn't go on any more. During a time when
I was reading a story to the group, a little girl named Mari
jumped up and shouted....YOU WILL LISTEN TO US NOW!!!!!! I was a
little shocked, and of course, all ears. Mari continued....THE
ANGELS HAVE COME TO US BEFORE WE SLEEP AND THEY TAUGHT US THIS
SONG........THEY WANT YOU TO LISTEN TO IT! So, needless to say, I
listened as 4 or 5 girls went into this lovely song about how God
loves me and that He will always love me and be with me. I wanted
to cry. I felt assamed that I hadn't taken the time to hear what
they had said earlier. My supervisor had been observing all of
this and she confirmed that the children had "tried" to
tell me this for days. I asked the girls who taught you that
song, that it was a lovely song....and they told me that it was
the angels. I asked them if they had told their parents about the
'angels' and they said that they (the parents) wouldn't
understand and that the song was for me.....that I WOULD KNOW
WHAT IT MEANT. Out of the mouths of babes......:) I felt so loved
that day, so honored that God would again remind me of His love
and caring. How could I ever think that I were alone in the world
when He sends such beautiful messages? From that day on, I
listened with an open heart and open ears whenever any child
spoke to me.
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