Prayer & a Car Crash

 

This last week on Tuesday, September 5th I was at work and I received the above text from a friend I had not heard from or messaged since April of this year.  It was a nice encouraging message to see.  I was going to message him back, but decided to head home for my usual early lunch (I take lunch near 11AM). On my way home from work and only 20 minutes after I had received the text message from my friend who was praying for me, I went through a green light while a truck heading in the opposite direction went through a red light.  I saw him approaching quickly, tried to speed up to avoid the truck but it clipped the back of my car anyway.  Luckily the guy had insurance, he took 100% responsibility for the crash, I wasn't hurt, and we both happened to have the same insurance company. 

When the Holy Spirit nudges you to pray, definitely be obedient in praying for that person or about that situation.  This goes for me as well.  Also, reach out to those the Holy Spirit nudges you to pray for and let them know you are thinking of them and praying for them.  A lot of people are going through various things and some simple words of encouragement and compassion goes a long way. 

This post is to be part of the goal to memorialize more God moments in my life that happen. Things large and small that happen that we are amazed at and we know it was God, but many times fade into the past when we are so anxious about the present.  

https://www.bible.com/bible/111/PHP.4.6-7.NIV

The Husky Pup on the Loose

A few weekends back (January 29th), my wife and I were driving to a coffee shop after church on Sunday morning and we happened to see a loose dog.  Knowing my wife would be worried about that dog for weeks if we didn't stop we quickly stopped and started to follow the dog on foot as I turned the car around.  The young husky was scared and wasn't trusting anyone.  One woman also stopped her car and tried to help us.  Then a guy came out of his house and tried to help us.  Then another guy.  So eventually 5 people started to randomly chase this poor dog.  Trying to keep it from a busy street and trying to corner it to at least get a leash on the dog.  We chased that dog for 3 hours.  During those 3 hours other people gave us sliced meats to try to entice the dog and one family loaned us their leash. 

Eventually, we cornered the dog and the dog happened to go into someone's back yard and we were able to shut the gate so the dog couldn't get out.  After talking with the people at the house, they let us go into the back yard to get the dog.  Finally able to corner the dog we got two leashes on the dog.  Then the other 3 people disappeared and we got the contact number for one of them. So Sung and I slowly gained the puppy's trust taking another hour to get it to our car and in the back seat.  Once inside the dog finally trusted us, laid down, and slept.

Of course the dog wasn't chipped.  We went to two places to check for a chip and to see if they could take the dog in.  We posted on Pawboost and actually someone else posted a picture of a dog that looked like the dog we caught.  His name is Koda. We contacted the owners eventually. 

They came to the house and sure enough the dog reacted to his owners with glee jumping on them. He had been on the streets for 3 days.  He got spooked and got out of his collar and was pretty far from his home. Also, Koda's first owners spoke Spanish so the dog mostly just understood Spanish so any of the words we tried to use was no use.  The pup didn't understand us.  

But Koda is happy and home safe with his family and we were supper tired, but happy as well. 😀