Personal

I just completed a chapter for my book and I described an event that took place well over forty years ago, whereby my first cousin got me out of jail in New Orleans. I was approximately seventeen or eighteen years old and had been in a vicious fight and was charged with several very serious offenses including resisting arrest and 2 counts of assault.

I have not seen or heard from my first cousin in probably two decades, but I wanted to check with him to ask a few questions to ensure that my memory served me well in relating the event and that I retold all that took place accurately in the book. I decided that I was going to try and contact my father and begin the process of finding my cousin’s contact information in order to ask him my questions.

Later that Sunday evening, “out of the blue”, I got an e-mail from him inviting me to a family reunion and congratulating me on the article about me that appeared in this month’s Readers Digest. I do not know how he got my e-mail address, and I was flabbergasted at the timing.

I attribute this not to happenstance or mere coincidence, but to God’s interest in seeing that this book gets published. I have been recording all of the miracles that have occurred in my life and the list is long. The name Miracle on Luckie Street is very appropriate. To me this is just another example of God having His hand on my life concerning this book.

Now I am aware that all of the atheistic naysayers and various doubters out there will no doubt take the approach that it is all just mere coincidence and explain it away as so much natural phenomenon. Unfortunately for them, unless they lose some of their their foolish pride and submit to almighty God at some point in their lives, they will never feel the warm hand of God intimately touching their lives. That is sad, because there is no feeling on earth like God’s close presence in one’s life.

I praise God that I am not a doubter and I can simply have faith that God has His hand on me and my life and that He continually blesses those efforts that are in His will for my life, be it helping me to find a verse of Holy Scripture for WFTD, or an e-mail address of a long lost person to help me finish my book, or comforting me in my day’s of sadness.

Have a blessed day.

Psalm 23:1
The LORD is my shepherd; I shall not want.
He maketh me to lie down in green pastures: he leadeth me beside the still waters.
He restoreth my soul: he leadeth me in the paths of righteousness for his name’s sake.
Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff they comfort me.
Thou preparest a table before me in the presence of mine enemies: thou anointest my head with oil; my cup runneth over.
Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life: and I will dwell in the house of the LORD for ever.