This morning I share with you one of the Beaver Valley Store experiences I had many years ago but still is sweet on my heart. The Lord blesses me from time to time with these memories reminding me always how near He was to me and also those wonderful divine appointments He arranged. Some day...perhaps the book will be written of all these stories. I want to thank so many of you for encouraging me to write up and share Life in Beaver Valley. Blessings to you all, Dee
All
the Way Home
The sun hadn’t risen beyond the
hillside yet, and the kitchen was warm and steamy as I was folding in fresh
blueberries into the muffin batter in the little kitchen of our Beaver Valley
Country store. I was about to pour the
batter into the muffin tins for baking when I heard the screech of a car out on
the highway and a car door slam. I hurried up as I knew someone needed me to
open the doors to store early today.
I unlocked the door and I was surprised
the car had driven away leaving a young woman standing there alone looking
sleepy-eye lugging a heavy backpack. I invited her in and inquired about where
she was headed today. I was stunned to hear her say―”France!”
She was in her early twenties and
spoke English well. She told me she had been staying in student housing at the
state park studying art on a special scholarship. But she received a call in
the middle of the night from her mother that her brother was extremely ill and
she needed to get back home to France right now! She had no car, no busses left
this early in the morning and she needed to get to the airport soon where a
ticket home was waiting for her!
Did her family know what they asked
of her? From this remote place on the west coast of Washington State to France
looked to me like mission impossible. I felt sad I couldn’t help her out
myself, at the least to get her onto the ferry to Seattle.
Just then, another car pulled up and
a woman rushed up to the door declaring how happy she was we were open! She
needed to get gas for her car now for she was in hurry for her trip today! It
was twenty miles to the next gas station, “Am I ever grateful to see you open
this hour of the morning, I had no idea how little gas I had for this trip
today,” she declared.
Without hesitation the young woman
from France, walked over to the new customer and asked if she could drive her
as far down the highway as she could this morning. She explained her story of
her brother and her urgent need to get to the airport as soon as possible.
Could this woman help her in anyway?
There was a pause as the
woman studied this eager young woman. And then a miracle happened! This woman,
who just now happened to nearly run out gas, said to our surprise,
“Yes I can help you even more than
you may think. I myself am on the way to the airport this morning to meet a
relative there. I’ll be happy to drive you all the way to your destination.”
“We can rejoice, too, when we run into
problems and trials, for we know that they help us develop endurance. And
endurance develops strength of character, and character strengthens our
confident hope of salvation. And this hope will not lead to disappointment. For
we know how dearly God loves us, because he has given us the Holy Spirit to
fill our hearts with love.”
Romans 5:3-5 NLT
Was this a coincidence? No, I knew
it was God’s perfect timing. We saw tears of joy in the young woman’s eyes and
heard her say, “Merci’! God has surely blessed me today!”
Sometimes God requires us to make a
choice to trust Him, believe in Him and stay steadfast to the journey we are
called to go. No matter what it takes, no matter if it’s a trip to the airport
and all the way home to France.
“All the Way
Home” Another Beaver Valley Tale: by Dee Kamp, Grace Every Morning Ministries© September
8, 2015
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