Safe after being held up at gunpoint

Several years ago my husband and I drove from our home in New York to Indiana for my annual Christian Science association meeting. We planned it as a two-day trip with an overnight in Ohio, where our daughter and son-in-law were eager for us to stay in their recently-purchased house, though they were out of town.

We arrived in the area well after dark and found the parking lot my daughter had noted as a landmark in the directions she’d given us. I waited in the car with our poodle as my husband walked down a very dark street to read house numbers.

Suddenly the dog started barking furiously, and as I looked back I saw two young men approaching. They told me to give them my purse, which I did; and then one of them went over to my husband, who was returning to the car, and held him at gunpoint and demanded money. He gave them some, but didn’t give them the bills that were deep in a pocket of his shorts. I saw this as a proof of God’s care for us, as we really needed that cash to finish our drive the next day.

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