A Little Girl's Cry (Romans 8:26)

A Little Girl's Cry (Romans 8:26) It's been some time since I have posted on my sister's blog. Life has it's pushes and pulls, but ultimately we need to continue to seek God's devine will for our days and even our hours. Posting on this blog has been a blessing to me,but other priorities have caused me to not post. However, it's been clear for a few months that God has wanted me to post this story I heard recently from a friend of mine. My friend Jim, a mature Christian in his 50's, told me of a unique circumstance he was in. One day in December he was in a drug store waiting in line for the register. A couple people up from him in line was a little girl about 3 years old and her mother. The little girl was in quite an emotional spiral, sitting on the ground stubborn like, very distraught and crying out of control. The mother, while being watched by everyone around her, tried to console her daughter, but to no availe. She was being patient, amongst the on-lookers and the embarrassing emotional display of her daughter. Jim, being one of the on-lookers, looked closer at the mother and realized she was the wife of Pete, a friend of his. While he didn't know Pete's wife, he had seen her before and recognized her. A thought rang into Jim's mind to call his friend Pete. He felt God was telling him to call, even though they hadn't seen each other for some time. So, in that register line, while watching the distraught little girl and the consoling mother, Jim reached for his cell phone and called Pete. The phone rang......"Hello" a voice came on the other line....Jim said "Pete?"..... The voice said "Jim?".....Jim said while continuing to watch the crying little girl...."Pete, how ya doing?" .....Pete said in a distraught, highly emotional tone, "why did you call me?"....Jim said," is everything OK?".....Pete replyed with a fluttering voice obviously accompanied by tears....."Jim, I have a gun in my hand and I am about to blow my brains out". Jim immediately talked him down, never said anything to the mother and drove over to see Pete. He got Pete immediate help. Jim had learned that Pete and his wife had been having issues and they were recently separated. A life was saved that day. Was it the little Girl's cry?; Was it Jim and his obedience to the Lord to call Pete? I can tell you that if God asked me to make that call I may have told God, "I'll wait till I get to the car, it'll be more private there." But if I did that I might have gotten voice mail! The Holy Spirit was working that day at the Drug Store, thru that little girl seemingly amplifying the pain of her father, pleading in moanings that are incomprehensible to those around her to "help my Daddy!!!!!" The Holy Spirit worked that day through my friend Jim's obedience to God. The Holy Spirit saved Pete that day, and that little girl has her father! "In the same way the Spirit also helps our weakness; for we do not know how to pray as we should, but the Spirit Himself intercedes for us with groanings too deep for words;" (Romans 8:26 NASB)