HeaveToo's Journal

I posted this on the main board, but I think that it is something that should be shared.  I had something remind me of this story today.  This is a true story that happened to me as a young Trooper.  It is one of my favorites:

Here is a bit of background for the story to set it up. 

As a young VA State Trooper I was assigned to Orange County.  My actual duty post consisted of Orange, Culpeper, and Madison County.  The area office was in Culpeper and I had to go there every few days.  I rarely went through Madison County because I considered it a backwards county.  When I traveled to the area office I had a favorite route that would take me through Orange and into Culpeper without going through Madison.

One extremely cold night during January I was working.  It was about 8 in the evening and really dark.  Snow was still on the ground and there was a stiff breeze blowing from the mountains.  I decided that I needed to go up to the area office even through I was up there the day before.

For some strange reason I passed by my normal route to Culpeper and decided to take Route 15.  Route 15 was a two lane road that lead to Culpeper but it also went through Madison County.  This was my least favorite route and to this day I have only one thought for the reason I made a snap decision to go that way.

After I was in Madison County I noticed a vehicle on the side of the road.  Normally I didn't stop for vehicles in Madison County because I wasn't that concerned with it.  I couldn't tell if it was occupied or not either.  I got about a mile away and finally decided to turn around and check the car.

When I stopped at the car I found a young man trying to get it started.  In the front seat of the car was a woman and her new-born baby.  The father, who was working on the car, had just picked them up and they were on their way home.  It had already began to get cold inside of the car so I told the woman to take her child and sit in the front seat of my police car and warm up until we got things taken care of.

When I went back to my car to call a wrecker I talked with the woman.  I said "I bet that you were very concerned having your baby in the car and it being so cold."  She responded by saying "Yes I was.  I had just prayed to God for some help and right after I finished I saw your blue lights."  At that point I was floored.

They got into the wrecker after the wrecker had picked up their vehicle.  I don't remember their names but I will never forget what she had said.  No one will ever be able to convince me that this was all a strange coincidence, God sent me there to help them and remind me how wonderful he is.