Christ - The Reese Source - December 2009 Edition

Welcome to the latest installment of “The Adventures of Buck and Peggy.”

But first, a word from our sponsor:
“Taste and see that the Lord is good!”
“He will never leave or forsake you.”
“Jesus Christ, the same yesterday, today and forever”


When we last left Buck and Peggy, they were dealing with the after-effects of Buck’s automobile accident, thankful for God’s protection. It is now mid-day on a cold and rainy Friday. The temperature is hovering in the mid thirties. Buck is on his way to a lunch appointment. His cell phone rings. It is Peggy telling him he must get home right away. She tells him that a large hickory tree has fallen across the driveway and has taken out all the power, phone, and cable lines.


Buck realizes that there is a serious problem. Without power the sump pump, which has rescued us from flooding in the sub-basement, will not work without power. The ground has been saturated by many days of rain so we are assured that the sump well will soon fill to overflowing. Buck realizes he is, at that moment, only a block away from his dear friend Mark Ryckman, who is in the environmental remediation business. Buck calls and finds him in his office and tells him the situation. Mark tells him to come on to the office. He has a generator and chain saw and has one of his assistants load them on a truck and follow him home. They arrive to find the tree blocking the way to the garage and the sub-basement. Working fast with the chain saw, they make way to get the generator in place, cranked up and running. Just as the water in the sump well is about to overflow into the furnace, the sump pump engages and drains the water safely away.

The next task is to get the power back on. Buck calls the power company. Amazingly, they show up within the hour, but discover that they cannot connect the power until an electrician repairs the wiring that has been ripped loose from the house. After one unsuccessful try, a call is placed to an electrician recommended by our builder. He is on another job, but leaves that to come help us, again within an hour’s time. He quickly makes the repairs and leaves with our immense gratitude. We place another call to the power company showing up yet again within an hour and restore the power. From the time of Peggy initially calls Buck until power was restored was about four hours!



We still have to deal with the telephone and cable lines. Buck places a call to the company, which handles both. The customer service rep, located in an unknown country, is told three times that we need a service technician to re-connect the wires from the telephone pole to the house. Of course, the next day who should show up but an inside technician! He says he will put in another service order. Buck has visions of having service restored by next summer! However, the kind service technician puts in a call to his supervisor, who is actually off duty. He arranges for someone to come out that day! Voila! An hour later, our phone and cable service are restored!

Now, people, I don’t know if you believe in everyday miracles. I don’t know if you believe in God’s intervention in our day-to-day lives, but Buck and Peggy sure do! In this day of “customer no-service” to have the power company come out twice within an hour of each call, having a generator immediately available, and most of all, to have a cable company get someone out within an hour of the call is purely divine intervention! God is intimately concerned with your everyday life as Buck and Peggy have experienced time-after-time this year.

And now, a final word from our sponsor:

“Humble yourselves under God’s strong hand, and, in His own good time, He will lift you up. You can cast the whole weight of your anxieties on Him for you are His personal concern.”

Stay tuned for more “The Adventures of Buck and Peggy”