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Date: April 10, 2010

Books & DVDs Kingdom Chums by SQuire Rushnell Read Our Letter To Parents When God Winks on New Beginnings by SQuire Rushnell Sale Price: $15.98 When God Winks by SQuire Rushnell Sale Price: $16.00 When God Winks on Love by SQuire Rushnell Sale Price: $14.98 When God Winks at You by SQuire Rushnell Sale Price: $17.99

One early morning when I was off from work, I received a call from my husband, who was hunting alone an hour and a half away from our house. "My truck is stuck in the mud, and I hate to ask you, but I need you to drive the Jeep down here to pull me out, and bring a tow-strap with you". When I arrived, his truck was deep in the mud where he had been relentlessly trying to get it out. With me steering his truck, he pulled it out with our Jeep. When I asked him if he was going to stay and hunt the rest of the afternoon, he replied yes, so I told him I loved him, and left in the Jeep headed back home. About ten minutes down the road, my husband called and said "Guess what? My gun is in the back of the Jeep." "Well, I can turn around and bring it back to you", I said. "No, the mood is sort of gone", he replied. " I am coming home".

Usually my husband cleans his guns immediately after using them. But for some reason, he forgot to clean his black powder gun that day and just recently remembered to do so. When you use the black powder gun, you load one bullet loaded with the equivalent of 100 grains of black powder in the barrel to shoot at one time. After recently cleaning his gun, my husband walked in the house and asked "Do you want to hear how your husband did something stupid and almost got killed?". I said "What do you mean?". He held out his hand and showed me two bullets that he had emptied out of the barrel before he started to clean it and said, "Someone was really watching over me that day - somehow I had loaded two bullets in my gun, and if I had shot it that way, it would have exploded with that much powder in it." He had somehow missed the safety check that prevents you from doing this, which is VERY unusual for him.

At that moment, I had the "chills running down my spine", that you hear people talk about. We looked at each other and I said "That was a BIG God Wink". We realized that we had received two that day - the first being that his truck got stuck in the mud before he could shoot his black powder gun, and the second being that he had left the gun in the back of our Jeep that I was driving home with. How thankful that God was watching over my husband that day and protecting him ! We will take that kind of inconvenience any day !

Dinah and Roy