SURPRISES FROM HEAVEN

My husband and I always called special surprises God's kisses because they would give us the feeling that our Heavenly Father had reached from His home in heaven to create a "God-incident" for us.
Since my husband's death I have had daily surprises to let me know that he is doing great in heaven and to let me know that God wants me to know that He is sending special kisses to catapult me through the grieving period.
The endless paperwork has been a burden with the constant reading and rereading the documents to fully understand the legal language in all of it. I had received a letter soon after my husband's death that said that I owed Social Security ten thousand dollars because I had been overpaid for the past year. That took several hours of reading the long six single spaced pages, pouring over every word until I discovered that it said that since he had died last year they had paid me too much money. The truth is that he died a month ago. It took a long telephone call to the office in our town before I could convince the nice lady on the phone that it was a mistake on their part. She was so kind and she finally found the error and told me to disregard the letter.
I received another letter a few weeks later relating to the one time two hundred plus dollar payment paid to every family whose deceased relative was receiving Social Security. That letter had two consecutive paragraphs which completely contradicted each other. I had to take the death certificate to the SS office anyway, so I went with not only the death certificate but the confusing letter in hand.
When I went into the new SS building I took a ticket from the computer which said that my number was 25 and I would be called and instructed to go to a specific window where an employee would help me. The loud speaker announced that the person holding number 10 should go to window 15 for assistance. I took my seat in the back of the ocean of people waiting for their turn to be helped. I was confident that since there were 15 windows with helpers behind each window that I wouldn't be there all day, maybe just a large portion of the day.
I enjoyed watching the people waiting to be assisted and the ones who went to their appointed windows, which were anywhere from 1 to 15. Windows 7 through 14 were around the corner and down a long hallway.
Finally the announcement came that number 25 should go to window 4. I meandered over to the window, stretching out my legs because I had been sitting in an uncomfortable chair for a while. I sat down in the chair in front of the window and a lady's voice said, "Have you had a face lift? You look younger than you did 25 years ago."
I looked closer at the person behind the window and recognized it as Marla, a lady who had come to us for marriage counseling 25 years ago. She had become a good friend even though I hadn't seen her in 25 years. She had moved to another state but had learned about my writings on my blogs and had started reading them. I also started sending to her daily encouraging messages from God which I publish on the Dear One blog. She occasionally writes an email to me but we hadn't seen each other in 25 years. I thought she still lived in another state.
I was in awe again of God's surprise for me that day. Think of the trouble He went to getting me to the office on the right day, putting Marla behind a certain window, and then getting me in line to draw that particular window to find help relating to the letter. Out of 15 windows I got an old friend, Marla, who immediately rose from her desk, rushed out the door in the partitioned wall, ran up to me and gave me a heart warming bear hug. We hugged for several minutes.
Marla said, "I knew when I saw in the paper that Steve had died that when you came in to bring the death certificate that I would get you at my window."
That put me deeper into complete awe of God, that He had given Marla that prophesy, that she would get to help me, and here she was across the desk from me. We shared some God incidents and then knew we had to get to my problem. After all, she was working and on government time.
I showed her my letter, which she immediately read and remarked that I was right, that the two paragraphs completely contradicted each other. She had to take it to her supervisor to decipher it. She was gone a few minutes, came back and said the supervisor couldn't figure out why the second paragraph was in there, that she had never seen that admonition before.
Well, my imagination went wild for a few minutes thinking about did God cause that strange paragraph to be put in so that I would take it to the SS office and be helped by God's maiden, an old friend who was believing that she was going to see when when I came in the office? Could be.
The miracle of the whole thing is that out of 15 windows being used that day, I got the exact number of Marla's window. Now, that also fills me with awe of the abilities of God.
The problem was solved and I got to be personally hugged and personally loved by someone I hadn't seen in 25 years whom God had told she would get to help me.
God is truly amazing. I'm in awe every day of His goodness. His Instruction Book says that the awe of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom. I'm waiting for more of His wisdom relating to the incident. It will thrill me, too.