Volume 25, Issue 5
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Page 29
Come Walk With Us (Part 29)
By Harry and Hadassah Wilkinson September 2024 A BIG! BIG! day. Today we reach Alamogordo. It was a beautiful morning. We were on our way by 9:00 AM, en- joying the warm sunshine and beautiful scenery. Every direction one looks there are mountains off in the distance. Beautiful, majestic mountains. We had good shoulders most of the way into Alamogordo and NO HILLS! Praise God! As we neared the outskirts of town, a truck came by, the occu- pants waving. It was our friends, Howdy and Yahooskin. They turned and came back and we had a roadside reunion. We made plans to meet at a truck stop a couple miles away. On the way to the truck stop, we passed a salvage yard. Harry re- membered that the man who runs it knows a friend in Alamogordo who we have lost track of. He said, “I think I’ll go in and ask if Bob is still around.” He went into the of- fice while Shiloh and Hadassah stayed by the road. Momentarily he stuck his head out the door and called to Hadassah saying, “There is a dog in here.” She kept a close eye on the door which was stand- ing open and shortly a boxer bull- dog sauntered out. Right behind him was another one exactly like him that Harry hadn’t noticed when he first went in. It took them about two minutes to spot Shiloh and head for us. Hadassah reached down and picked Shiloh up, plac- ing him on top of the cart where
she was confident he would be safe. The next thing Hadassah knew, one of the dogs was on her
away was made more difficult be- cause neither of them had any kind of collar on. The two men finally got
We had just spent 89 days of living under the direct protection and provision of the Lord and suddenly that was no longer necessary in the same way as it had been while we were walking. God gives us the gift we need when we need it and we had been under the Gift of Faith and we both felt it lift from us. There are just no words that can explain the let down we both expe- rienced at the same time. We seri- ously considered walking back to Illinois, but we knew that was not part of what God had told us to do so that thought did not last long. God has provided absolutely everything we have needed and we were sure He would show us the next part of His plan. The joy we feel is from accom- plishing a very difficult and physi- cally demanding task. The strange sadness is realizing that we will be returning to a lifestyle that will pro- vide us with many of the things that we could only get, over the last three months, from a kind and lov- ing Father that will provide for us bountifully if we will but turn to Him as a child turns to his earthly father knowing, without a doubt in his mind, that he will receive what he needs. (Philippians 4:19). “And I have been with thee whith- ersoever thou hast walked, and have cut off all thine enemies from before thee...” (I Chronicles 17:8 KJV). Email Contact: Harry@Virtually-Forever.com
back, trying to get to Shiloh. She was petrified. Hadassah is not quick witted in an emergency and didn’t have the presence of mind to grab the club and start swinging. Shiloh fell off the cart and she stood there screaming for Harry. Poor little Shiloh ran around the cart, trying to get under it but the bulldogs were on top of him before he could reach its relative safety. By the time Harry and the owner arrived on the scene, Hadassah was sure our little Shiloh was badly chewed, if not dead. Harry grabbed the club and swung, striking one of the dogs across the shoulder. He raised the club again and would have connected with the dog’s back if the owner hadn’t leaned across his dog, yelling as he did so, “Don’t hit them! Don’t hit them!” Harry yelled in return, “Get those animals off my dog!” The task of pulling the large dogs
the boxers off Shiloh and we began to examine him for injuries. He was soaking wet from the saliva of the huge mouths but we couldn’t find a mark on him. It was as if the Lord had turned the dogs’ teeth into rubber. Hadassah was badly fright- ened and continued to shake for fif- teen or twenty minutes. Shiloh, on the other hand, shook himself off and trotted along as if nothing had happened. We thought about all the encounters we have had along the way and all the dogs we have chased off. To get within a mile of our destination and have some- thing happen to our dear little friend would have been heart breaking. (2 Chronicles 20:15). We arrived at the truck stop and had just enough time to sit a few minutes and collect ourselves be- fore Howdy and Yahooskin arrived. There is no way to describe the feel- ing we both had at the same time.
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