Heaven Touching Earth by James Stuart Bell

Author:James Stuart Bell [Bell, James Stuart (compiler)]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: REL012040, REL099000, Angels—Christianity—Anecdotes, Miracles—Anecdotes, Supernatural—Anecdotes, Christian life—Anecdotes
ISBN: 9781441264015
Publisher: Baker Publishing Group
Published: 2014-08-14T00:00:00+00:00

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1. Carolyn Colwell, “Rheumatoid Arthritis Death Rate Unchanged,” HealthDay, http://consumer.healthday.com/senior-citizen-information-31/misc-aging-news-10/rheumatoid-arthritis-death-rate-unchanged-609491.html.

A Boatload of Trouble

JUDY PARROTT

Dad scrounged around for a hunk of wire to tie up the Buick’s dilapidated muffler, found an illegal license plate for the trailer, and plugged the trailer’s brake line into the car. However, he didn’t tell me the only trailer he had to carry the twenty-seven-foot houseboat was way below capacity to haul this enormous burden. Dad also forgot to advise me to tighten the wheels’ lug nuts every hundred miles during our trip from Michigan to Georgia.

What tiny wheels, I noticed, but never considered why.

My dad was a forgetful but lovable businessman who often took chances conservative people would never consider—especially this one: gambling with our very lives for the sake of a boat sale. Usually his risky decisions turned out all right, but this time I may not have been here to tell the story if God had been hard of hearing.

I took off that hot July day with my twelve-year-old son, Rob. I had never pulled such a giant boat before, but was impressed that Dad trusted me with his treasure.

We had a pleasant first night in the elegant new houseboat, parked in a Kentucky RV park. After breakfast, we headed to the Tennessee mountains. The trailer was struggling to stay straight behind the car.

Maybe I’m oversteering. I have to relax a bit, I thought.

The Buick had a hard time climbing the first high mountain. We finally got to the top, but trying to keep control as the boat shoved the car down the steep slope was another story.

The car and houseboat went faster and faster.

I pumped the brakes—no luck.

I smelled rubber and frantically scanned for an escape ramp, where trucks can coast upward off the road when they can’t slow down.

But then it got worse!

With horror, I realized I’d lost control. The car began bucking and swaying across the four-lane highway. Then it headed for a ravine.

Rob was too scared to speak, sure we’d go over a cliff and die.

“Jesus!” I screamed at the top of my lungs.

Suddenly, as if it were shoved by some gigantic hand, the car spun completely around toward the median, and some large object flew over the hood.

Fifty feet of car and trailer abruptly stopped, spanning the entire highway.

Rob and I braced for the inevitable crash as vehicles flew around the curve at us.

The car stalled, but incredibly it started just in time to drag the trailer to the median, inches from traffic.

The boat loomed in the air like a sheltered queen on her throne, untouched. The only immediate visible damage was a badly twisted trailer hitch. We didn’t yet realize the trailer axle had cracked almost in half, and the flying object was a tire.

A trucker, expecting a wreck, stopped nearby.

“I saw the wheels wobbling, and I knew you were in trouble,” he said. The kind man separated my car from the trailer and handed me the twisted hitch parts. Rob and I headed for the nearest town.

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