Many people do not believe in Miracles today, but I do. I witnessed one over the Labor Day weekend and I want to share it with all of you. Most of you know Mr Shabby or of him from the earlier days of my FB page and blog. He was my husband the Father of my youngest son and a wonderful Grandfather to my grandchildren.
Our son had not heard from his Dad in over 2 months and that was not the norm even for him. My son and I had chatted back and forth about where he might be living, staying etc, neither of us knew of his whereabouts. If you don’t know his story Mr. Shabby has his issues with addiction. We separated then divorced but stayed in contact some because of the kids and grandchildren and the fact that he and I had grown up together and been together over 1/2 our lives. We would always love each other, we both knew that. But, there was no way I could go on living with his addiction, I felt that he had chose that over me. Sometimes it has such a stronghold over them they just can not see the forest for the trees, sadly.
Our son got off work early Thursday before Labor Day and went on a hunt looking for his Dad, I said to my son contact this person and see if he has heard from your Dad lately. He did, and the young man had heard from Mr Shabby 2 days prior and gave him the number he had still in his phone and told my son I kept the number but I have no idea why, it was from a convenience store because I called back to check on him the next day and they told me, the young man explained to our son.
So, our son did a reverse lookup of that number and got the address, we went to the location and they told my son his dad was there each day between 2 and 4 PM so we knew he must be close by. Truly without a clue as to where he could even be we just chose a direction and went with that. We drove for just a few miles when I spotted a truck that looked like Mr Shabby’s and I said it out loud as we drove by. My son said Mom I don’t think so but, on the way back we will look closer and see if it was his truck. We drove on several more miles and did not see any sign of him. We came to a point that we had to make a left/right or turn around. We turned around and headed back the same way we came with full intentions of checking out the Truck I saw in the dark that was backed up beside and old building without any lighting, It is a Miracle that I even saw the truck as we went past. As we approached close to that area we slowed down and sure enough it was his truck, I was in the back seat and didn’t have the view my son had he was first see it and say, Mom, it’s Dad and I see him, his head lying in the open window. He jumped out with the car still moving not quit at a full stop, I think he truly thought his Dad was not alive, yet he has not said that to me yet, the tone in his voice told me that much as he yelled Dad, Dad!
He ran over and shook him as I approached the Truck, he opened his eyes but was not very responsive. Without going into total detail at this time, God, is amazing! He had led us right to Mr Shabby from one simple phone call that Mr Shabby made to a friend and that friend kept a number for two days in his cell he knew he would never call again! My son reversing that number to find the address it came from and us going there only to hear that yes they knew him by the photo we had stored in our phone and he stopped by every afternoon at a certain time. We knew him well enough to know he had to be close by and that could have been in any direction, yet God lead us down the right path at the right moment that saved Mr Shabby’s life. The Father of my youngest son, the love of my life had traveled so far down a dark path of addiction that he saw no hope at all for his own life and thought ending it and his addiction was the only way out, it hurts me deeply to even think he felt that, but people feel that daily for this reason or that reason. Life can be so hard sometimes. You might be saying Debbie, why or how can you put this out here? Because God is bigger than anything we face in this world, he lead us to Mr Shabby this was not luck, or chance, but truly a God thing. We had no idea what we were even doing, but we knew we had to act and do something. This is not to shame this man in any way, he has a heart of gold and bad things do happen to good people, we love him and want to help him any way we can, still to this day.
Today 5 days later he is still recovering, and will be going to a 12 month treatment program, He is ready, praise the Lord he is ready! And it was all by the Grace of God, yes the Grace of God. It is late and my mind is so tired, we have really been through so much in such a short time. We feel so blessed to have found him to let him when we did.. just a few moments more would and could have been life or death.. I am sharing this because I want each of you to know there is hope for that loved one that is lost and without hope. I also y want you to know that we care about Mr Shabby, we love him with all our hearts. His family cares and we love him and want him to fight this with everything he has in him and when he gets tired let God fight for him. We have prayed for years now and God heard us, He showed us that love can lead you. Love can make a difference, love can save the life of someone who has lost hope. Addiction does not discriminate it takes on the wealthy, the poor, male, female, young and old make no mistake about that! That is the honest truth, addiction does not discriminate!!!
I want each of you to know that tonight if you are suffering from addiction have a loved one that suffers from addiction, never give up on them, and please keep praying. I have prayed for years for Mr Shabby and 5 days ago God answered that prayer. If He will do that for Mr Shabby’s live and for me He will do it for you, or your loved one, He will, but it will be in His time so do not give up, do you hear me, do not give up on that loved one. I have seen a Miracle and I will testify to that. If you would keep Mr Shabby and our family in your prayers, if you need my prayers all you have to do is ask!
Love,
Debbie