Re: A testimony of God's providence for our family!

#1 · October 14, 2001, 11:45 am

Quote from Forum Archives on October 14, 2001, 11:45 am
Posted by: lotzakdz <lotzakdz@...>

what a blessing!

On Mon, 15 Oct 2001 12:51:21 -0500 "Ken & Pam Matheson"
<kmat@pinenet.com> writes:
> Hello,
>
> Yesterday as we were travelling home from the cities we stopped to
> get gas
> and have a bathroom break. Janessa grabbed my arm and said, "mommy,
> I can't
> breathe...I swallowed my candy." I turned to her and saw that she
> was
> struggling to breathe and yelled for Ken across the store that she
> couldn't
> breathe. I then tried the heimlich (sp?) maneuver on her twice,
> with no
> success. When Ken reached us, he also tried the heimlich a couple
> of times,
> also with no success. A man came up to us and asked us a question
> (which
> neither of us know what he asked us - but he must've asked if he
> could be of
> any assistance, as that is what he did).
>
> As I stood there trembling and watched our daughter in this man's
> arms it
> was a picture to me of God taking care of her. I felt completely
> helpless,
> we had tried to help, with no success. The man firmly but gently
> held
> Janessa against himself and spoke to her and told her to cough and
> to speak
> to us...he was gentle and patient. After she coughed, he looked up
> at Ken
> and I and told us that she was in fact getting some air (he had his
> hand
> over her mouth), but very little. At this time a lady came over and
> said
> she was a nurse, and asked if she could be of any assistance to us.
> She
> suggested that we look in her mouth to see if we could see something
> lodged
> in her throat, which the man said was a good idea and we should
> look...as
> they looked, they could see nothing.
>
> Tears began to well up in my eyes as I watched Janessa struggling to
> breathe. The whites of her eyes quickly turned to red (they were
> very
> bloodshot). At this point the man said that he thought it would've
> turned
> the other way, and since it didn't that we should maybe find the
> nearest
> hospital. All I could do was pray, "Lord Jesus, help this man as he
> is
> helping our daughter stay calm, and help this candy to loosen in her
> windpipe." He then asked Ken what she swallowed and he said it was
> a candy
> and he said to us that maybe the sugar would start dissolving. I
> asked if
> there was anything we should do, a glass of water?? he said yes,
> maybe some
> water would help, so I yelled to the lady behind the register and
> asked her
> where a cup for water would be. A man handed me a cup from the soda
> fountain and I ran to the bathroom to fill it. By the time I
> returned
> Janessa had coughed it up! Oh, how relieved and happy we all were!
>
> Janessa and I went to the bathroom to clean her up, as she had
> thrown up
> after coughing the candy up. On our way an elderly couple stopped
> us and
> said, "we didn't know what to do to help, but we knew that we could
> pray!"
> What a comfort to know that our Heavenly Father had placed that
> couple in
> there at that time just for us! I thanked them and said that is all
> that I
> could do also! HE HEARD OUR PRAYERS!
>
> Ken was able to talk to the man and found out that he was an
> anaesthetist!
> He had taken care of MANY children that had swallowed quarters,
> pennies,
> nickels,etc...to think that this man (from Upper Michigan) was there
> at the
> same time as us! As my dad (Janessa's Papa) said to me this
> morning, it was
> Providence! Yes! It definitely was. The definition is: the
> foreseeing
> care and guardianship of God over His creatures!
>
> As Ken paid for our gas, the lady said the man ahead just paid for
> it, so
> she called him over the intercom to the parking lot and he came
> in...it was
> the man who helped us! So, we paid for his gas and he paid for
> ours. We
> were able to thank him once more for his help.
>
> We continued on our trip home and discovered that neither one of us
> had
> asked this man his name. So, last night as we went to bed we prayed
> that
> the Lord would bless this man, who's name we don't know, and his
> family.
>
> A Prayer of Thanks
>
> Lord Jesus, we thank You
> for your hand of protection
> on our family yesterday, as
> we travelled home.
>
> Thank you for the man
> that you placed in the gas station
> at the same time as us.
> Even though we don't know
> his name, you do. Bless him
> for being willing to help!
>
> Thank you also for the nurse
> that came over with the suggestion
> that we should look in Janessa's throat.
>
> And, thank you also for the elderly
> couple who "didn't know what to do"
> but did the most important thing, to ask
> YOU to help us.
>
> Lord Jesus, we are in awe of all the
> people you placed in that store at the
> time we were there yesterday and we are
> reminded that:
>
> The steps of a good man (in our case, child!)are ordered by the
> Lord: and he
> delighteth in his way. Though he fall, he shall not be utterly cast
> down:
> for the Lord upholdeth him with His hand. Psalms 37: 23 & 24
>
> JESUS, THANK YOU FOR YOUR HAND OF PROTECTION UPON JANESSA
> YESTERDAY!!
>
> And, also last week Janessa's bus driver swerved to avoid a gas
> truck and
> the bus went into the ditch, and tipped on its side. Thankfully NO
> one was
> hurt!
> (God's guardianship of our child!)
>
> Pam
> for
> The Matheson Family
> Finlayson, MN
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> --Shortcuts:
> WANNA READ THE ARCHIVES AND CATCH UP ON WHAT YOU'VE BEEN
> MISSING??? GO TO:---->
> www.welovegod.org/digests/homesteadheaven
> --->(you will prompted for a userID and Password.....for the userID
> type in this --->"archives"<--- minus the quotes, and leave the
> password field empty.
> --->Shortcut to Our Link Page:
> www.yahoogroups.com/links/AHomesteadersHeaven/
> --->Shortcut to Our Member Directory:
> www.geocities.com/ahomesteadersheaven
>
> To unsubscribe, send ANY message to
> <homesteadheaven-unsubscribe@weloveGod.org>
>

Kathryn in North Garden
"It must be obvious that liberty necessarily means freedom to choose
foolishly as well as wisely;
freedom to choose evil as well as good;freedom to suffer the rewards of
good judgment, and freedom to suffer the penalties of bad judgment. If
this is not true, the word ~FREEDOM~ has no meaning."

________________________________________________________________
GET INTERNET ACCESS FROM JUNO!
Juno offers FREE or PREMIUM Internet access for less!
Join Juno today! For your FREE software, visit:
dl.www.juno.com/get/web/.

Posted by: lotzakdz <lotzakdz@...>

what a blessing!

On Mon, 15 Oct 2001 12:51:21 -0500 "Ken & Pam Matheson"
<kmat@pinenet.com> writes:
> Hello,
>
> Yesterday as we were travelling home from the cities we stopped to
> get gas
> and have a bathroom break. Janessa grabbed my arm and said, "mommy,
> I can't
> breathe...I swallowed my candy." I turned to her and saw that she
> was
> struggling to breathe and yelled for Ken across the store that she
> couldn't
> breathe. I then tried the heimlich (sp?) maneuver on her twice,
> with no
> success. When Ken reached us, he also tried the heimlich a couple
> of times,
> also with no success. A man came up to us and asked us a question
> (which
> neither of us know what he asked us - but he must've asked if he
> could be of
> any assistance, as that is what he did).
>
> As I stood there trembling and watched our daughter in this man's
> arms it
> was a picture to me of God taking care of her. I felt completely
> helpless,
> we had tried to help, with no success. The man firmly but gently
> held
> Janessa against himself and spoke to her and told her to cough and
> to speak
> to us...he was gentle and patient. After she coughed, he looked up
> at Ken
> and I and told us that she was in fact getting some air (he had his
> hand
> over her mouth), but very little. At this time a lady came over and
> said
> she was a nurse, and asked if she could be of any assistance to us.
> She
> suggested that we look in her mouth to see if we could see something
> lodged
> in her throat, which the man said was a good idea and we should
> look...as
> they looked, they could see nothing.
>
> Tears began to well up in my eyes as I watched Janessa struggling to
> breathe. The whites of her eyes quickly turned to red (they were
> very
> bloodshot). At this point the man said that he thought it would've
> turned
> the other way, and since it didn't that we should maybe find the
> nearest
> hospital. All I could do was pray, "Lord Jesus, help this man as he
> is
> helping our daughter stay calm, and help this candy to loosen in her
> windpipe." He then asked Ken what she swallowed and he said it was
> a candy
> and he said to us that maybe the sugar would start dissolving. I
> asked if
> there was anything we should do, a glass of water?? he said yes,
> maybe some
> water would help, so I yelled to the lady behind the register and
> asked her
> where a cup for water would be. A man handed me a cup from the soda
> fountain and I ran to the bathroom to fill it. By the time I
> returned
> Janessa had coughed it up! Oh, how relieved and happy we all were!
>
> Janessa and I went to the bathroom to clean her up, as she had
> thrown up
> after coughing the candy up. On our way an elderly couple stopped
> us and
> said, "we didn't know what to do to help, but we knew that we could
> pray!"
> What a comfort to know that our Heavenly Father had placed that
> couple in
> there at that time just for us! I thanked them and said that is all
> that I
> could do also! HE HEARD OUR PRAYERS!
>
> Ken was able to talk to the man and found out that he was an
> anaesthetist!
> He had taken care of MANY children that had swallowed quarters,
> pennies,
> nickels,etc...to think that this man (from Upper Michigan) was there
> at the
> same time as us! As my dad (Janessa's Papa) said to me this
> morning, it was
> Providence! Yes! It definitely was. The definition is: the
> foreseeing
> care and guardianship of God over His creatures!
>
> As Ken paid for our gas, the lady said the man ahead just paid for
> it, so
> she called him over the intercom to the parking lot and he came
> in...it was
> the man who helped us! So, we paid for his gas and he paid for
> ours. We
> were able to thank him once more for his help.
>
> We continued on our trip home and discovered that neither one of us
> had
> asked this man his name. So, last night as we went to bed we prayed
> that
> the Lord would bless this man, who's name we don't know, and his
> family.
>
> A Prayer of Thanks
>
> Lord Jesus, we thank You
> for your hand of protection
> on our family yesterday, as
> we travelled home.
>
> Thank you for the man
> that you placed in the gas station
> at the same time as us.
> Even though we don't know
> his name, you do. Bless him
> for being willing to help!
>
> Thank you also for the nurse
> that came over with the suggestion
> that we should look in Janessa's throat.
>
> And, thank you also for the elderly
> couple who "didn't know what to do"
> but did the most important thing, to ask
> YOU to help us.
>
> Lord Jesus, we are in awe of all the
> people you placed in that store at the
> time we were there yesterday and we are
> reminded that:
>
> The steps of a good man (in our case, child!)are ordered by the
> Lord: and he
> delighteth in his way. Though he fall, he shall not be utterly cast
> down:
> for the Lord upholdeth him with His hand. Psalms 37: 23 & 24
>
> JESUS, THANK YOU FOR YOUR HAND OF PROTECTION UPON JANESSA
> YESTERDAY!!
>
> And, also last week Janessa's bus driver swerved to avoid a gas
> truck and
> the bus went into the ditch, and tipped on its side. Thankfully NO
> one was
> hurt!
> (God's guardianship of our child!)
>
> Pam
> for
> The Matheson Family
> Finlayson, MN
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> --Shortcuts:
> WANNA READ THE ARCHIVES AND CATCH UP ON WHAT YOU'VE BEEN
> MISSING??? GO TO:---->
> http://www.welovegod.org/digests/homesteadheaven
> --->(you will prompted for a userID and Password.....for the userID
> type in this --->"archives"<--- minus the quotes, and leave the
> password field empty.
> --->Shortcut to Our Link Page:
> http://www.yahoogroups.com/links/AHomesteadersHeaven/
> --->Shortcut to Our Member Directory:
> http://www.geocities.com/ahomesteadersheaven
>
> To unsubscribe, send ANY message to
> <homesteadheaven-unsubscribe@weloveGod.org>
>

Kathryn in North Garden
"It must be obvious that liberty necessarily means freedom to choose
foolishly as well as wisely;
freedom to choose evil as well as good;freedom to suffer the rewards of
good judgment, and freedom to suffer the penalties of bad judgment. If
this is not true, the word ~FREEDOM~ has no meaning."

________________________________________________________________
GET INTERNET ACCESS FROM JUNO!
Juno offers FREE or PREMIUM Internet access for less!
Join Juno today! For your FREE software, visit:
dl.www.juno.com/get/web/.