Posted on 08/09/2023 7:26:08 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
When I first heard the story of the woman attacked by a snake that fell from the sky and then saved by a hawk after calling out, “Jesus, help me,” I thought that it was an urban myth. Every detail seemed too clever to be real. And yet that’s exactly what happened just the other day to a woman in Texas.
Peggy Jones, of Silsbee, Texas, was sitting on her tractor mower in the garden of her house when a snake suddenly dropped from the sky, wrapped itself around her arm, and began to strike at her face. Not only was that seriously strange, but Jones had been bitten by a venomous snake before, so she knew what could happen.
Jones waved her arm around wildly, trying to dislodge the snake. At the same time, she called out repeatedly, “Jesus, help me.”
Two things happened that saved Jones. First, the snake never reached her face. Instead, it kept hitting her glasses, which it left covered with the venom it had hoped to inject into her.
Second, a hawk zoomed out of the sky, determined to dislodge the snake from her arm. It eventually succeeded, although not before scratching and gouging her arm, leaving her bloodied and with the promise of many scars. (If you want to see how badly Jones was scratched up, click here. If you’re squeamish, do not click there.)
Image: Peggy Jones’s hawk-scratched arm. YouTube screen grab.
Logic, of course, says that what happened makes absolute sense. The hawk had grabbed the snake and started to fly off with it so that it could devour its meal in comfort. The snake was able to wriggle free from the hawk’s grasp and, through sheer bad luck, landed on Jones.
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But still…
Jones herself is certain that she was the beneficiary of God’s intervention. While it’s true that the hawk was the one that dropped the snake in the first place, it could have given it up for a loss. Instead, it was willing to fight for that snake, and it was the fight that saved Jones from a worse outcome than a bloodied arm.
All I can say is that everything is bigger and, possibly, weirder in Texas.
This sounds more like a freak accident.
the Lord works in mysterious ways... this one not so mysterious, praise the Lord anyway.
Sounds like the hawk was taking the snake to its nest and accidentally dropped it and came down out of the sky to retrieve it.
I wonder what kind of snake it was.
Last week, I encountered a 4.5 foot long cottonmouth just outside of my shop. Nothing unusual about that since we live in the boonies. Normally, the snakes just head off in another direction and I let them be. This one showed no signs of being willing to play nice, though. So I grabbed my 410, chambered a shell and sent it to it’s maker. Blew it’s head clean off. Problem solved.
the hawk dropped its lunch
and went back to retrieve it
The bad luck has to be equal to winning a lottery.
I’ve lived around farms for 1/2 my life and never even heard of a snake falling on someone’s arm while they were mowing and wrapping around it attacking apparently.
Much less a large hawk then diving onto the same mentioned limb.
Dare we call this BS? I mean people have faked weirder things.
https://abcnews.go.com/US/woman-accused-duke-lacrosse-team-members-rape-charged/story?id=13295161
While also cleaning out my underpants.
“””a woman attacked by a snake that fell from the sky was saved by a hawk”””
I call BS on Andreas’ version of this story.
When I read the earlier reports, it seemed obvious that the hawk dropped the snake, the snake fell on the woman’s are, and the hawk went to retrieve their snake.
Sung to the tune of Raindrops Keep Falling On My Head…..
Poison snakes keep falling on my arm
But that doesn’t mean they’ll soon be causing harm
Got glasses on my face
Those poison snakes keep falling on my arm they keep falling
But there’s one thing I know
The snakes that come to greet me won’t defeat me
Hawk is swooping down for lunch
Those poison snakes keep falling from the sky they keep falling
“of course, that hawk was not going to give up its prey, so it naturally returned to recover it”
One might say the hawk giveth, and the hawk taketh away.
After reading this I have one thought. How much does it cost to get my lasn mowed by a service?
After reading this I have one thought. How much does it cost to get my lawn mowed by a service?
or at the very least, get a lawn tractor umbrella!
But I don't think I would be trying to explain that miracle to the press if only because I don't know exactly where God got involved and/or where it was just pure coincidence.
As an example of what I mean, I know some people who would declare, "It's a miracle!" just because they had a safe drive across town. They may be right, but when most people hear that (believers and non-believers), they think these people are escapees from the state mental asylum.
Jesus did save her...from the snake bites. Praise God!
It sounds like the snake saw the hawk and was trying to escape. It landed on her as a collateral effect of that.
It’s the kind of help we should expect from a crucified Lord.
She needed a little help from Samuel Jackson.......
ENOUGH IS ENOUGH! I HAVE HAD IT WITH THESE MFING SNAKES ON THIS MFING MOWER!
The snake was heard to say, “It’s a miracle.” But then the hawk returned.
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