Yesterday at a WAL-MART in Georgia a SEVEN YEAR OLD little girl was involved in an attempted child abduction. A 25 yr old parolee (only a week out mind you) out on manslaughter charges picked up the little girl in a toy isle while her mother, who was in another isle, was shopping. The man ATTEMPTED to take the little girl out of the store by covering her mouth but due to her training (now watch it her comes the MIRACLE!!..I'll tell you why in a minute..), knowing about "STRANGER DANGER", the little girl's mouth may've been covered but she knew enough to stay calm in order to kick and squiggle herself free from her potential person who was about to do her harm (....he's innocent until proven guilty in a court of law right..no telling what he had planned for her, he was out on manslaughter). And in doing so she would've made such a spectacle of herself and the man walking through the store that SOMEONE was sure to see them.
FORTUNATELY this is the 21st century and SEEING is rather common in large stores due to SECURITY cameras. No judgement intended, but this guy was BLATANT about his ill-deed and no good could've come from that little girl being taken out of that store by him yesterday. But let me take you off track (I'll bring you right back quicker than a hummingbird can lick somethin!) right here. NOTE above the words (in this paragraph) in caps, note how they make a statement about our God!! Folks when I set out to write something about something it's because something is stirring in my heart that has to be said. Maybe, like in this case, it's something from my own past experience that struck a chord or maybe, like the words in caps indicated to ME and hopefully to you too, God is still trying to talk to us TODAY!! In a language that we understand through people like me and that little girl yesterday. Because when I look at the news report and see the video of the man attempting to take that little girl, I see in the midst of that 3-5 sec struggle a warrior angel pulling that little girl away from that abductor then making him run. That's what I see......told you I'd bring you back:) MIRACLE!!
What stirred in me when I saw the video of the attempted abduction was a childhood memory of a similar incident happening with me and my baby brother when I was 13 and he was 7.
Our mother had passed away the year prior to that and we were living with our maternal grandmother at that time (our childhood was very scattered and unstable. My little brother and I never lived together under the same roof for more than 1 year together before or after our mother's passing). We were walking through a neighborhood park from a friends house on our way back home. It was a holiday of some sort because it would've normally been a school day but kids were home and parents were working. For some reason that was important that day.
As my brother and I had made our way into the park as there would've been no easy way to run and turn back out to the neighborhood we just left, I noticed a man in a car looking at us. At first he was sitting on a park bench but after we passed him he ran for his car. He made a call for us to come to him the first time. I turned around and looked at the man and kept walking, not even fast, I thought the man was crazy. It was then I first noticed "THE MIRACLE". It stirred inside me, it told me what parents tell their kids today, what I didn't have when I was a kid. It told me that this was a bad scene and we had to get out of that park or we were sure to die there, me and my little brother. That feeling boiled in me every step we took. .....
There was some intense moments in the park that day, the stranger pursued us around that park for the better part of an hour. My brother and I were like DISNEY KIDS in a HOME ALONE movie that day, but it was no (get ready for the intended pun..).. regular DAY IN THE PARK for me & little Scotty Norful that day..we were in someone's sights to die that day but the BREATH of God was in the wind & upon us that day..(wonder if my brother felt it??!!)
I won't bore you with all the details of how we got out of that situation because OBVIOUSLY we did, but I will tell you that when I saw that video of that abduction, I saw me and my little brother in those grips and that MIRACLE that got us out.
We don't see waters parting today, but short of full out plagues in an isolated area, WE DO SEE if we're looking!!
I bet you've witnessed a miracle too & maybe didn't think to classify it as such. What do you think??!
