THE MYSTERIOUS DOOR BELL - A GODWINK?
Exactly one year later, at 5 o’clock AM, we were awakened by the DOOR BELL RINGING nonstop. No one was there.
Then, 50 years later, before dawn, this is what happened....
I cannot imagine the grief borne by the mother of a lost child. But, I do accept that God finds ways to send us signs and wonders … Godwinks … to help lift us toward hope and recovery.
More uplifting stories are available for you here.
ROMA DOWNEY had a sweet butterfly connection with her late mother.
When she and her father stood at her MOTHER’S GRAVE, a butterfly landed.
Her father said ... That wee butterfly could be ...
My dear brother always called me ‘SIS.’
Driving home from settling everything at my brother's house, I was deep in sadness realizing it was my last physical link to him.
With a big, bright FULL MOON shining down, I decided to check Facebook as a distraction.
Up popped something that touched my heart...
An urgent INNER VOICE told me to go home where my husband was watching our three-year-old CHILD.
My husband was selling one of our cars and he was just putting our little boy into his car seat to accompany a man on a test drive.
My insisting that our son stay with me ... may have saved his life ...
My neighbor and I met at our mailboxes on a very COLD DAY; the kind of day birds don’t fly much.
He asked about my dog, recovering from cancer treatment.
When I mentioned the word PRAYERS ... we were both surprised by what happened next...
Young 8 year old SHELBY PRAYED for not just any BIRD… she’d researched it … and gave her parents a power-point presentation on why an Australian COCKATIEL would be perfect.
They said maybe when you are 10.
But... they had no idea how this story could have an ASTONISHING ending once Shelby TEAMED UP with GOD!
My SON passed away in May.
On especially difficult days I ask for hopeful SIGNS ... some days God sends me hearts...
“My mother passed away last week ... so I asked the girl if she could please PRAY for my family.
She asked if I had something to write on. I later looked at the crumpled up piece of paper she handed me...
Actor David Oyelowo had a PREMONITION while reading the script for SELMA … eight years before the movie came to life on the big screen.
After being turned down by six directors of the movie to play the role of MARTIN LUTHER KING, he was graced with Godwinks.
Read on, see what I mean...
I sensed that God wanted me to return to my home in KENTUCKY.
Just then I had the urge to look down.
Wow ... with a sign like that ... guess what I did...
Part of our mission is to explain GODWINK PRINCIPLES through stories.
This is one.
A grandfather has been telling his grandson about Godwinks... signs of hope directly from above.
But it takes a lost and found book to help the lesson sink in...
Our Godwink was when Rachel’s cat showed up…
I prayed asking God to send me a dog who NEEDED me.
The next morning I got up feeling the weight was lifted.
Five minutes later Mom texted …‘Look who showed up at my house.’
Actress Danica McKellar, star of many Hallmark and now Great American Family movies, tells a Godwink story that was a faith-builder for her as well as for each of us.
She really thought … after doing so much work on the script… that the movie for this Christmas season might not happen. Then…
Not having enough MONEY to make it through the month, I asked God for a SIGN … then I boldly said I'd like to see something very rare in our area ... THREE DEER.
Well...
When everything feels chaotic and out of control ... perhaps it's because we don't see the big picture!
Can you trust in His plan...
TONI ESPINOZA couldn't bear asking God for someone to die in order to be a heart donor for her husband.
So, she simply asked God to HEAL David ... and to confirm it with the FIRST Christmas SNOWFALL in history in their border town!
What happened next ... may one day be your favorite Hallmark movie ...
Randy and I had a 16-hour drive ahead of us.
It was getting late and I have a condition that requires me to have something in my stomach.
Our GPS rerouted us past the place we intended to stop.
Mile after mile ... no place to stop ... all I needed was a banana...
“I was sliding my CAKE onto a platter… it slipped and FELL to the floor!
ANNOYED, I shouted something I shouldn’t have ... I needed that cake for an event that evening.
Mike rushed into the kitchen, calmed me down, and suggested I run to the store to get something else.
But what he did next ... changed everything ..."
After bidding $420 at a charity auction, Diane was haunted by the devil whispering, "You needed that money more than they did."
She asked God if she had been foolish.
You'll love the surprising answer He sent back ... the next morning.
Kuma, my Great Pyrenees Service Dog and I were visiting a retirement home.
Out of the blue, Kuma, walked over, and laid his HEAD on the LAP of a 106 year old woman.
What she told us brought tears to her eyes... as well as all of us looking on.
Alex drove six hours from home and discovered he had a HOLE in his TIRE.
Worse... the last time his tires were changed back home, they mixed things up and gave him someone else's TIRE LOCK KEY.
What did Alex do? He prayed for a Godwink and GOT ONE!
You'll be amazed how ...
I wanted to believe in Godwinks ... tried to ...
But when called to the hospital to celebrate final moments with cousin Kathy ... our "Little Engine that Could"... told as a child she wouldn't live to be a teenager... now nearly 51... we witnessed something that could only be a Godwink!
“Riding my bicycle home, I stopped at an INTERSECTION … it was CLEAR.
But ... as I went to cross … I COULDN'T MOVE.
It felt like someone was ….
“At 17 years old I answered ... no.
Looking at the ground, I crossed paths with a man who said ...
"At 8 MONTHS OLD I put my baby down to SLEEP in a side bedroom.
Suddenly Dad SHUSHED me and RUSHED from the table.
In the next moment, my heart fell..."
I had a dream about MOM.
Later in an antique shop, I did a double-take.
It was a garment bag like Mom's.
I wondered …
Martha’s experience underscores that Godwinks are usually not “big” … but more often, they are SWEET, encouraging, and meaningful.
When we ALLOW God into our lives, He communicates with us… non verbally… in astonishing ways...
What are the odds that LIGHT from the HEAVENS would mysteriously appear, at PRECISE moments at VARIOUS locations on THREE different days ... all in the presence of the late Queen of England?
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