A terrible - wonderful - wrong number today
Posted by: mestes <mestes@...>
I just have to share this with you . Today, I am so grateful to our Father that he has led us to live the life that we live. A life filled with His Peace.
This morning while I was showering, we recieved a phone call. Sam came in and asked me where Dad was. I said, "He's in Knoxville," and I heard him toeel whoever was on the phone that he is in Knoxville.
Then he asked if they would like to speak to me. He handed me the phone and said, Its Ms. Barbara. So, it being Barbara, I took the phone and said hello! Well, it was a Barbara, but not "our" Barbara.
She asked me if I was Donna. I said, no this is Dana. (I get that a lot, so didn't think anything of it.) I did begin to think how awful it was that I was getting a telemarketer call on Sunday morning before church! Then this woman asks if I am Mike's wife? I told her yes and asked what I could do for her.
She said, Its not what you can do for me, but what I can do for you. (groan, telemarketer). I said something like "ok".
She told me that my husband was not in Knoxville but was in Columbia at the hospital and asked if I would like to know why? Of couse I said yes (I was a lttle worried about this bit of news). She said that he was visiting S......... at the hospital because she had just had a baby. I asked her "who?" And she repeated S..........
He's visiting her because the baby is his!
you know S...D.... Her baby is his and I'm calling to let you know this. I said, I don't know a S........ My husband is Mike Estes, works at Teledyne? She said, yes, Mike Estes. You know, S....... who lives with you. I said (with great relief) Shannon doesn't live with us!
She said, you're not Donna Estes from Mt. Pleasant? I said no, we live in Lewisburg!
She had the wrong number, wrong family, wrong town.
Wow, God is good though. Even though I was relieved, I hadn't doubted Mike. That was, however, quite startling news and since I was in the middle of it, I didn't have time to work it out in my mind or begin to figure out what was going on. I was so glad that I could know that it wasn't Mike, that our marriage was safe, that I was safe and that he was safe.
After a brief moment of WHHHHHHHHEEEEEEWWWWWWW! I went right into praising God that the phone call was not for us. That we don't live our lives so that it could have been us and that he has called us into a life where we are safe from those things. Thank you Jesus!!!!!!!!!! Thank you Jesus!!!!!!!!
I also prayed for the family that is affected by this news. I prayed that if the woman that called me should NOT be telling this news, that the Lord would prevent her from doing so. I prayed that the husband and father would confess and that they would begin to sort out this mess they are in.
Thank you Father for calling us away from that type of lifestyle. Thank you for rescuing us and cleansing us so that we can be assured of one another. Safe.
Dana (Mike's wife, Chris, Sam and Caleb's Mom)
"Let your home be your parish, your little brood your congregation, your living room a sanctuary, and your knee a sacred altar." Billy Graham