“One FATHER’S DAY weekend I was scheduled to bring communion to the Catholic residents of a nursing home in our parish.
 
I’d previously met a resident named PETER, a retired New York City cop who told me he’d outlived his wife and daughter; that was all I really remembered. 
 
Prior to Father’s Day I stopped at a pharmacy to pick up a CARD for my husband. While there, I had an overwhelming URGE to buy a card for Peter as well.
 
I filled out the card for my husband and then proceeded to WRITE in Peter’s card.
 
I had another OVERWHELMING URGE … this time, to sign it ‘from your DAUGHTER in HEAVEN.’ I don’t know where that came from, but I acted on it.
 
On Father’s Day morning I handed Peter his card. His eyes immediately filled with TEARS; I worried I’d made a terrible mistake.
 
He then told me that his DAUGHTER had passed away ON FATHER’S DAY two years before.
 
Ever since then, I have felt that God chose me to participate in that astonishing GODWINK moment.
 
Now I visit Peter once a week or so. He tells me he loves me each time.”
 
Jane Lakatos
 

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As we honor the Fathers in our lives this week… let's be ready to respond to any Holy Spirit NUDGES. As with Jane, you might be a “GODWINK LINK” … the deliverer of a Godwink to someone else.
 
We are grateful that our friends Nick and Lori De Rose tipped us off to this story.  They met Jane while walking the 484-mile, month-long pilgrimage of Camino Frances, from France to Spain.
 
Spot a Godwink today!
 
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