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If this was an answer to my prayers, even if it was something that I
could not comprehend, God must have sent this thing to help me. God was
at long last acknowledging my devotion to Him. I had finally been heard!
This sounds silly now, but at the time it made perfect sense, and it was the
only rational answer that I could come up with.
Sitting there beside Andrew, hurtling down the road in the car, the
seconds ticked by while my mind turned the whole thing over again. Then
I acted. I turned around in my seat and said in my mind: Wait for me. I'll be
back down this way in a few hours! It was a mental projection that I flung to
whoever was involved. Don't go away. I’ll see you later. I believed that if it
was something to do with God, I would have been heard. I had no real
expectation that it would wait for me to come back but maybe, just maybe,
something closer to God would be able to tell Him: ‘Hey, there’s someone
down there who really needs you.’
A few minutes later, I settled back in my seat and turned my
attention to my husband. He didn’t seem to have noticed my fidgeting,
which gave me the opportunity to consider what I might tell him, if
anything. For a whole five minutes I thought about it, but finally I just
couldn’t keep it in and thought: Stuff it! I’m going to tell him! Sure, he might
pick on me, but I was at bursting point.
‘Andrew . . .’
‘Umm,’ he said, still in bubble-mode.
‘I just saw something very strange.’
‘Yeah?’
‘I saw some lights in a paddock we passed a while back. There was
this thing, like a . . .’ My throat constricted, because this was the point of no
return. ‘There were all these lights: it was something big, and orange.’
He didn’t even glance in my direction. ‘It was probably just an
aeroplane,’ he said.
‘No,’ I said, ‘I don’t think so. Planes don’t land in a field like that. It
looked like a whole bunch of round orange lights, all in a row.’
‘Then it was probably a helicopter.’
He wasn’t taking me seriously.
‘When have you ever seen a round helicopter, Andrew? And
anyway, it was much bigger than a helicopter, and it wasn’t making any
noise.’