Posted on 11/28/2024 4:08:04 AM PST by MtnClimber
Sometimes a single step is our salvation.
On Thanksgiving Day in 1944, a young American platoon sergeant named Mac St. Johns led his men on a scouting mission in the French countryside. They were looking for German soldiers known to be in the area. Heading toward a crossroads under the faint light of dawn, Mac “stood stark still” and argued with himself about what to do next. He knew that he should have his men “fan out so that they could move with the cover of the trees” in the surrounding forest. But a voice in his head told him not to do so. After some hesitation, he chose to walk his men down the road in a single column. Though they were exposed, no Germans fired. In fact, Mac and his men encountered no German resistance near the crossroads at all.
Turning around to return to camp, they quickly realized how close they had come to death. Nailed to the backs of the trees, German signs warned, “Minen!” Had they moved through the woods earlier that morning, they would have been “blown to bits.”
Weeks later in mid-December, Mac got a letter from his mother. “Can you remember where you were on Thanksgiving Day?” she asked. His mother explained that she had awakened just after midnight with a sense of terror. “I had a strong feeling that you were in great danger. When I opened my Bible, a phrase in Second Chronicles [20:17] gleamed on the page: ‘Stand ye still and see the salvation of the Lord with you…’” Stand…ye…still. Mac had definitely received his mother’s Thanksgiving message.
I came across Mac’s story in this collection of inspiring Thanksgiving miracles. It spoke to me because I have had my share of similar moments in life...
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
Wishing everyone a happy and safe Thanksgiving.
Ping
Thanksgiving is a great time to forgive those who dumped you for your political views
If we have been given a second chance this year, let us be supremely grateful. Let us be penitent. Let us demonstrate wisdom. Let us harness the best parts of our natures. Let this be the first of many joyous Thanksgivings to come. Above all else: let us be still…and listen.
“Thanksgiving is a great time to forgive those who dumped you for your political views”
No.
“Thanksgiving is a great time to forgive those who dumped you for your political views.”
Have they asked for forgiveness and repented?
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That’s for God.
For us to get over it, we “simply” (no simple about it sometimes) need to forgive.
Yep. What we do to the least of them, we do to Jesus.
Asked how to pray, He gave us a prayer that includes "forgive us...as we forgive."
At the very least we should pray for those we deem irretrievably wicked, that they open their hearts before it's too late. The Lord might just want them retrieved. Every Democrat and every tyrant here and abroad.
Shutting out your own family for being foolish or benighted, seems like a suggestion from Satan.
I agree.
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