Even Small Incidents Can Be Miracles

Even Small Incidents Can Be Miracles
This cold windy weather has been making me grouchy and I don’t like that. I made a resolution quite years ago. “If I’m grouchy I don’t leave home, because no one likes to deal with a grouchy old man.” An incident that happened Tuesday morning changed my grouchy attitude. I was outside clearing snow in my drive from the deposits from snowplows’s deposits filling my driveway. I was grumbling, thinking of the task at hand. Pulling on my boots and bundling up, I began to clear the snow. I was beginning to get chilled and began to consider whether to go back inside and to finish later. I was almost ¾ of the way finished when a guy slowed and motioned me to step aside. I did and he pulled across the mouth of my drive, reversed his truck, after lowering his snowplow that was attached and dragged the remaining snow from my drive then pushed it across the road. I gave him a thumbs up in a thank you before I went back inside to warm up.
Later, I needed to pick up a few groceries and supplies for my Accu-Check machine. I hadn’t driven my car since Sunday morning and as I pulled out from my drive, it almost seemed like I had a flat tire. My tires made a thumping noise. Grunbling, I almost stopped to see if there was a problem, then I remembered once before something similar happened. Because it was so cold and because I hadn’t driven my car for a few days one of the tires had developed a flat spot. The thumping lessened as I drove and the flat spot warmed and rounded out.
I was told that my blood work eliminated my participation in a gout study and I returned the medications to the clinic. While I was there, I got a supply of Accu-Check sticks before going for groceries. I was chatting with the nurse. We talked about the ultrasound that I had as part of the gout study. The results had shown that I had a lesion on my kidney. I had no symptoms or problems and the lesion might had gone undetected but for that serendipitous discovery. I believe it was the leading of God, just like God’s leading from one incident leading to the next when I had my open heart surgery. I’m to have a cat-scan February 27, 2025 and hopefully I’ll be able to find out more information. I’ll need to wait until then to see what miracle God has in store for me next.