GODWINKS
What is a “Godwink?” “SQuire Rushnell and his wife, Louise DuArt, are convinced that God sends us messages and signals every day. It’s just a matter of paying attention. For example, if someone winks at you and you aren’t looking, that doesn’t mean they didn’t wink, only that you missed it. Things we chalk up to coincidence or dismiss as happenstance may just be God communicating with us. This is a term the authors have dubbed Godwinks.” (Book Reporter Reviewed by Lynda Lee Schab on January 16, 2013)
I am pretty sure that most of us can look back at our lives and remember Godwinks. Maybe it was a smile from a stranger that lightened our day or a phone call from a friend when you needed an encouraging word or even a supernatural incident that you cannot explain. The next two stories are Godwink stories from my own life.
Dogs of Protection
When my husband, Marty, was a young boy, he decided to walk home from school on his own because he had gotten a tear in his pants. He had always taken a city bus and did not know how to get back home or how far it was (later learned it was 4 miles as the crow flies).
As he started walking, he noticed a big beige, white dog who came up to him and walked beside him and Marty followed him. He went through the downtown area, the outskirts of the city and along the way, other dogs came up and surrounded him. They went through highway traffic, construction zones and eventually back to the Air Force base where he lived. The dogs stayed with him all the way through and he was never stopped by anyone even at the gate at the base. He followed the dogs all the way up to his house with the big beige dog leading. He got home and his mom answered the door surprised to see him home and all the dogs with him.
The beige dog went into the house before him as the other dogs disappeared. When his mom went to look for the beige dog that had come in with him, she couldn’t find it and there was only one entrance to the house!!
His mom always believed that the dog that accompanied St. Martin de Porres was sent to protect and guard her son Martin.
An Angel Named Chaz
In April of 2009 my husband and I decided to get away for a little while and we went up to Hannigan’s Meadow which is over 9,000 feet elevation here in Arizona. We decided to go to the lodge to have dinner that same day and there was a man playing his guitar and singing. We enjoyed the music and then he started to play “out of the blue” “The Wedding Song” which was sung at our wedding. We were really surprised.
Talking to him later, he gave us a CD of his music and then wrote these words, “Be well, safe travels Marty and Marcella and thanks for being.” Before he wrote this he looked up to the sky as if listening to someone and then he wrote the message. Why is this so unusual? It is because 6 days prior after Communion at church the Lord told me, “It is more important to be, than to do.” After I came home, not having told my husband Marty what the Lord had told me, he confirmed this message when he said, “we need to be.”
Was Chaz an angel? We are not sure to this day but that day he confirmed a message sent from God to lighten our load and rest in God and be who we are created to be and seek after Him and enjoy each other and not get bogged down by every day troubles or worries or concerns. I am not 100% sure Chaz was an angel but if he was a mortal, God uses all of us when He needs to convey a message. We still like to think that Chaz was our “angel.”
The following links are videos of Godwink stories from SQuire Rushnell that will warm your heart.
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