My Lord protected me!

Psalm 28:8 You give strength to your people, LORD, and you save and protect your chosen ones.

I can really relate to this Bible verse, especially today. For it started out like most of my days, saying good morning to the Lord and expressing how I want to serve Him and love Him. I had a God’s Love Program where I presented the first program for October, Seeds of Tradition from the Seeds for Christ series. As always God was there, blessing the people with older hymns and Christian songs that they grew up with and are grounded in. How can you go wrong with a Jesus melody of, “Jesus Loves Me” and “What a Friend We Have in Jesus!” Amen to that.

Like usual after the program I visit with each of the residents, share some encouraging words to help let them know that God and I truly love them and want the best for them. Also I hear from a lot of them, “Stay safe and come back and see us soon!” I really don’t think too long or hard on the “stay safe” part for I have been blessed in this area and also consider myself a cautious person.

Today it was a little different though. When I left the house I never thought I would have a refrigerator fall on me! I guess that’s almost like getting hit by a piano. But it happened.

My brother, who was in from Massachusetts and is still trying to sell his house, called me earlier. I told him I would try to get out to see him there after the program. When I got to his house he and a young man was loading a refrigerator into his truck. Now my brother is older than I am so moving large items is not something we can do with ease, especially me. What we didn’t know was the young man, who the refrigerator was given to, did not show up at the place it was going to, so we didn’t have his youthful strength to help.

So here we are two aging gracefully gentlemen trying to do a good deed and left to unload this monster and put it where we were told to put it. Luckily there was a small ramp that we could roll the refrigerator on the dolly up to and put it in its place. As I was pulling it up the ramp my feet slipped on the wooden ramp and I went down with this refrigerator on top of me. All I could hear was my brothers voice on the other side saying, “are you alright?” All he could hear was me yelling “get this off of me!”

Now go back and read the bible verse again. My friends though I know I had a refrigerator on top of me, I was perfectly all right. Praise God for the strength He gave me and protecting me from any harm. Now how awesome is that?

From God’s heart, to mine, to yours,

Ed Shagott