By: Dann757 On: Thu Oct 22, 2009 10:13 pm
I worked for a carpenter years ago and we were putting up an add a level on a house in Chester NJ. The guy's brother was helping; and his wife would pray for the safety of the men every morning. She would leave biblical sayings in the guy's lunchbox. This was in the winter, and we were putting tar paper on the new roof sheathing. The guy's brother papered right over a skylight rough opening and marked it with red chalk. It was only me and him up there. We ran out of tar paper, I went down the ladder and came back up and walked across the roof with it. It was cold, the end of the day, getting dark, I was tired. I walked right over the opening and went straight down through the paper. My boot heel landed on a strongback 2x4 that had not yet been cut out of the opening, down under the roof about four feet, which was a lightwell two floors up over the staircase. I was chest high sticking out of the roof opening. One inch either way and I would have missed the 2x4 going across.
So that's not the first time The Holy Spirit has intervened in this sinner's life.