Little Adventures

You do not have to go very far to have a lit­tle adven­ture. Some­times a trip to the gas sta­tion is suf­fi­cient. One day, in El Paso, Texas, I was fill­ing up my pickup when, for some unknown rea­son, I noticed the emer­gency shut­off but­ton on the wall of the sta­tion. I thought it was odd that I would see it. I had never really noticed it before. I had just fin­ished fill­ing up when I heard the sound of some­thing splash­ing. I turned toward the sound and noticed that a per­son had pan­icked and pulled the filler from the gas tank and was aim­ing it my direc­tion. She had a ter­ri­fied look on her face. Gaso­line was going every­where. One spark and the place would be con­sumed in flames — she cer­tainly would be. It only took me a few quick, long steps to get to the the emer­gency shut­off. No spark. No flame. Every­one was okay.
To this day, I still won­der how some invis­i­ble angel got me to notice the emer­gency shut­off — only moments before I needed to hit it. I know that it was no acci­dent. I had never noticed those switches before, but I have noticed them numer­ous times ever since. I thank God that there was not a spark, and I still won­der about the tim­ing of it all. Usu­ally, I am lost in my head — pon­der­ing some­thing philo­sophic. I do not nor­mally notice such “insignif­i­cant” details as an emer­gency switch or a fire extin­guisher.
What would have been just another for­got­ten lit­tle rou­tine event became a lit­tle adven­ture in aware­ness. The angel hint­ing that I needed to be a lit­tle more aware of my sur­round­ings had been heard. You never know when your angel may tap you on the men­tal shoul­der and point to some lit­tle some­thing you need to know. Pay atten­tion!
For all of my the­o­log­i­cal pur­suits, the real proofs for the meta­phys­i­cal (unseen) world have not come through well-reasoned books on the sub­ject. They have come from the lit­tle coin­ci­dences that were not merely coin­ci­dences at all.