Do You Believe in Prayer?

I know that I certainly do. To anyone else it might be coincidence, but to me, it was the Lord watching out for my husband.

Let me preface by saying that my husband works for an oil and gas company. Safety is their number one concern. Or so I thought. About two weeks ago there was a really bad lightening storm one evening. The rules state that if there is lightening all employees are to be off equipment and the job halted. No one is supposed to go back to the job until it has been at least five minutes with no lightening.

Well, on this particular night, there was severe lightening and everyone was "allowed" to get off their equipment except Craig. He kept voicing his concern about the job not being safe, but his supervisor said that the job needed to finished. All the other guys on the ground kept voicing their concerns over the radio, but they were told that they work in situations like that all the time (not true), "what's the big deal?". Craig's co-worker (the one who trained him on this particular piece of equipment), took it upon himself to climb up onto the manifold and forcibly send Craig down. He told Craig that he had a wife and son to take care of and he didn't want anything to happen to him. What a selfless act that his co-worker and friend committed. He put himself in harms way because he thought of someone else first.

When Craig was telling me the story it brought tears to my eyes because I was so grateful for what his friend did for him and for us. And then it dawned on me to ask what time this was all happening. He said that it was at 8:30p.m. (just before they finished the job and headed home). Why is this important? Because it was 8:30p.m. when I was putting Hayden to bed and we were praying that the Lord would watch over Craig and keep him safe. Would he have been safe if I hadn't said prayers with Hayden that night? Maybe. But it's my faith that tells me that the Lord was watching over my husband and his friend.