10 November 2013

Divine Intervention: A True Story

When Sister Breksa's grandfather (Milton W. Hansen, 1931-2006) was a teenager, he worked at Roy Orr's service station in Pioche, NV. In the course of his duties, one day he was driving a large pickup truck on a rural road (the only kind of a road in all of Pioche). He was feeling quite important to be entrusted to drive this big old pickup and in all probability driving too fast. 

When he came to the top of a hill he looked down and there at the bottom of the hill, smack dab in the center of the road, was a great big, somewhat beat up, cardboard box.  His immediate plan was to increase his speed going down and run right into the box.  He wanted to make it fly or smoosh it.  Determined, he sped down the hill.  


Then, just a moment before the impending impact, he felt very strongly he should not hit the box. He didn't know why he just knew he was not to hit the box.  He quickly swerved around it.  As he continued on his way, he looked in the rearview mirror and saw two little boys crawl out of the box laughing and rolling it back off the road.