3/18/2017

Today Mary Ann and I had a Divine Appointment with a young lady, someone we met on the road years ago.  Her name is Kristy.

The day was sunny, cold, and the wind was blowing from the west across our quarter mile long driveway.  I was scheduled to work over in Bar Harbor about 45 minutes away.  Mary Ann was going along to help me.  Looking back I can see how GOD orchestrated her in going.  Around 11AM, we tried to leave with the car, but on the way out of our driveway we encountered huge drifts of snow that the car got stuck in.  We managed to get the car out, and called our plow guy who said he'd be right down.  Thirty minutes later, we are still sitting in the car waiting for the plow to break open the snowdrifts.  I call him again and told him we'd take the truck and try to get out.  He said, someone else was coming and thought they'd be here by now.  So I decided to move our tools into the truck and head out the driveway using the 4 wheel drive on the truck.  We too got stuck and off into a ditch!  Well, I wasn't pleased and very surprised that we got stuck!  I reminded myself that Mary Ann and I had prayed for GOD to bless our day, and so perhaps HE was saving us from an accident or perhaps HE had a Divine Appointment ahead.  30 seconds after I got stuck, the plow guy comes down the road and decides he can't pull us out because the snow drift is too much for him to be able to help and he can't plow through because we are in the way.  So he tells us he'll send a backhoe over which is about 5 minutes away.  I get the shovel and dig around the truck and get the chain ready.  The backhoe comes and starts clearing a path to us, pulls us out, and we're finally on our way, probably with an hour delay.

On the way to Bar Harbor just before crossing onto Mount Desert Island out in the cold blowing wind we see a young girl hitch-hiking in her pajamas!  We turn the truck around and pick her up.  When she got in the truck she recognized us and reminded us that our family did several chapel services at her Christian School a few years back.  She also said she had kept in touch with some of girls on social media!  She explained that she had gotten dropped off from a ride she got from Bangor to Trenton about a 45 minutes drive and she had been walking for about 30 minutes with no one stopping.   

Had we not gotten stuck it is very clear to us that we would have missed this appointment!  PRAISE GOD for getting stuck!

Kristy told us her story, very sad.  But the good news was she had made up her mind to leave a bad party scene and couldn't get a ride to a friends house.  Plus her phone was stolen at the party so she had no way to get help.  So she started hitch-hiking.  She knows the LORD, but needs consistent discipleship.  Mary Ann was able to minister to her.  We prayed with her and took her to her destination.   She promised to explore Teen Challenge rehab programs and she promised to keep in touch with us. 

Pray that Kristy will allow GOD to do all HE wants in her life.  Pray that she have strength to overcome and keep making good decisions and get some solid Christian discipleship.  Pray that we do all that GOD wants us to with this precious child of GOD.