Time Warp to Work
My wife drives me to work every day. We have a morning routine that involves snooze alarms, two types of coffee, and an ingenious method of getting hot water from our garage to our bathroom. Yesterday morning, we left the house at 5:43 am. It was a little later than I like to leave, but it should have put us at the station at 6 am – the exact time that my shift starts.
We had been driving for about 10 minutes when I looked at the clock on the dash of the car. The time it showed indicated we had left the house just 4 minutes ago. I pulled my phone out of my pocket to check the time, thinking maybe the clock in the car was wrong, but it showed the same time – 5:47. Only four minutes after we left the house. Even in light traffic with solid green lights, there’s no way we could have driven the distance we covered in just four minutes – especially since it was the first day of school and we crossed a 15 MPH school zone a mile from our house.
I couldn’t understand why the time was wrong, but I didn’t want to obsess over it, so I put it out of my mind. My wife and I talked about the dreams we had the night before and we arrived at the station at 5:54 am – six minutes early. I clocked in and helped my partner check off the gear.
A crew that was coming off duty at 6 am came over and asked if we were going in service soon. Dispatch wanted them to take a call and if they did, it would make them late. The EMT wanted to go home because he planned on driving his daughter to her first day of school. I told him we’d be happy to take the call.
We put the gear on the ambulance and went in service 2 minutes before our start time of 6 am. The EMT thanked me repeatedly for taking the call. We got the call information and went en route. To me, it was just another call.
12 hours later, at the end of our shift, the same crew came on duty again. The EMT met me at the time clock and repeatedly thanked me (again) for taking the call for him. His daughter was glad that he was able to take her to school. He made a big deal about it, but to me, it wasn’t worth making a fuss over.
And yet there was this nagging question in the back of mind… How did I manage to arrive at work 6 minutes early?
And why?
I’ve been interested in learning about how God alters time. Or rather, how He alters our perception of it. I’ve listened to testimonies about time alteration with curiosity. To my knowledge, it has never happened to me before. I’ve listed to theories about how it happens, but I don’t think I could explain the process itself.
If what I experienced truly was God altering time – it wasn’t for my own gain, my convenience or my amusement. It happened (apparently) because God wanted to bless someone who had an important date to keep. If I had not arrived six minutes before shift change – he would have had no choice but to take the call. And he would not have been able to take his daughter to her first day of school. I’m not sure what was so important about that event, but it must have had some significance in the eyes of God if it was worth getting me to work early by supernatural means.
John Paul Jackson noted that the entire population of the earth, with one very small exception, is comprised of others. Maybe God releases these supernatural events because He wants to bless all those ‘others’ through us. If you ask me, that’s worth spending a little time thinking about.
This is an excerpt from the book My Craziest Adventures with God – Volume 2.
Hey PM,
Great post, PM! I’m glad you shared it. God bless you and PMW. Miss you on Facebook.
Thanks Laurie. Glad you stopped by. I’ve been missing my friends. I’ll be back on Facebook soon enough!
What a blessing God made you! I love hearing about His ways of stretching our understanding of His world. I, too, miss you on FB (and the bacon posts! 🙂 )
I had one of those this morning. I call them Holy Ghost set ups or Divine appointments. I took my husband into the hospital to have a med port put in for his up coming chemo. While we were in the out patient prep area the gentleman in the next bed was going to have an angiogram done. Pretty soon the nurse showed up and moved his wife’s chair right next to me so they would have room to get the preps done. We started to chat and I could tell she was really nervous about her husbands procedure. My husband’s was no big deal. I just listened to her life story and responded at the right places. When they came and took my husband to surgery I stopped at the cafeteria for some breakfast and coffee to go. When I got to the waiting room the only place in the whole room with an end table to set the coffee down on was right next to the same lady. She smiled from ear to ear when she saw me and we continued where we left off. While there she received a call from a relative whom she told she was not alone she had met a sweet lady and we were chatting along like old friends. I don’t mind at all when the Lord uses you to be that safe port in the storm. I know for sure there has been many times He has sent one to me.
well oh my goodness. that is exactly it! i knew God was into making memories! sometimes it is the only thing left after the living is swept away by whatever means. so glad this happened to you and you wrote bout it.. thank you
This has happened to me several times (to my knowledge). Every time it’s been while driving to work. But, unlike your story, , I had been running late each time, at least 25 to 30 minutes. And since I was late leaving the house at my usual time that 25 to 30 minutes would actually translate into 40 to 45 minutes late for work because of the increase in volume of traffic. Each time I would arrive at work with 5 or 10 minutes to spare. Maybe God just didn’t want me to be late just because I absolutely hate being late for anything and He just did it for my peace of mind. Only He knows for sure. I’m just amazed and very thankful each time He’s done this.
And btw, I think it’s pretty cool that EMT got to take his little girl to school on the first day…..it really does mean a lot to little girls!
I spoke with the EMT last night and told him what happened. He praised God for allowing him to get home on time. Turns out his daughter has anxiety attacks – often triggered by him coming home late from work.
Yay, God!
I love this! I haven’t experienced that particular thing, but many years ago I was driving with my kids, when at a stop light I saw two men stop to pick up a prostitute. As I watched her get in the car I was overwhelmed with the reality that she would not come out of this alive and that I had to get to a pay phone. As I started to drive it was as if someone else took control of my car & everything went into this slow motion kind of thing. I mean, my hands were on the steering wheel, my foot on the gas, but all I could see was the truck, the men’s faces, what they were wearing (even though they were inside the truck), the license plate…I wasn’t watching the road at all, but my car was being driven and it was as if all the information I would need for the police was being imprinted into my brain, like each piece of information would balloon up super-sized before my eyes, it was one of the strangest things I’ve experienced. The next thing I knew I had driven about 6 or 7 blocks without ever looking at the road, I was approaching an intersection with a gas station & pay phone on the corner. I pulled in, made my call and then had this full revelation of what had just happened…crazy! Nothing like that has ever happened since, but I believe you’re right, everyone needs someone for one reason or another & God has ways beyond our wildest imaginings. So cool.
Great testimony. God is so amazing, isn’t he?
Amen! God is a Supernatural time-keeper, and He Cares about the “little” (BUT, BIG!!!!!) things
Amen! More and more I’m realising He is involved in everything!!!!
He certainly is!
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By the Time I got to the end of this post with all these supernatural generous testimonies I am humbled and Amazed at the Goodness of our God and heavenly Father who pays such close attention to our small, seemingly, insignificant details as we go about our too busy lives doing what we think is so important.
it reminds me of the song by Casting Crowns “who am I that The Lord of All the earth would care to know my name Would care to feel my heart . . . .a flower quickly fading . . . .just a vapor in the wind . . . .But, . . . .I am Yours”
A widow, grandma, caught “in time” who doesn’t get enough time, here on earth, with those of my own flesh, closest to me, (IMO) and
pressed into learning to lean on the arm of my Beloved as He is teaching me,
(eternal things)
stretching me, into (gratefully) yielding my members to His true love . . . .
Ephesians 5:15-17
(NKJV)
Walk in Wisdom
15 See then that you walk circumspectly, not as fools but as wise,
16 redeeming the time,
because the days are evil.
17 Therefore do not be unwise,
but understand what the will of the Lord is.
I really appreciate this insight — it’s another piece to the puzzle you know I’ve been trying to piece together. And a rather important insight, I should think.
We’re getting closer, Michael.
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I’ve had similar experiences twice in the last couple of weeks. In both cases, I thought (like you did at first) that the kitchen clock was slow… but when I checked, all the other clocks in the house said the same time.
In both cases, I was doing housework – which is blessing my family. I have some other thoughts about it.,, maybe I should write them down 😉
You shifted time. Anyone can do. Congratulations
When man asked God for the sun to stand still in the sky the Lord did it, but said he would never
do that again. Bur what about “local” time adjustments? I asked the Lord if He would change time
on a smaller level? Then my hour meter on the mower went backwards. The repair I thought I made
came back. Then the hour meter went forward and my repair was fixed again. Wow… Eph 3:20