A Miracle from Iraq

Here is an actual email from someone who I know who is serving in Iraq. He wrote this email to his mom earlier this month. (I've made all the people anonymous for the sake of maintaining their privacy.)

Dear Mom,
You'll never believe what happened this morning: We set out on our patrol early, around 8-ish. The weather that had started out clear suddenly got very dark and stormy. Lightning and thunder started flashing in the sky. An enormous explosion ripped the air, nobody knew what it was (maybe thunder?) or where it came from, some thought from town, some thought the road ahead. An observation post called it in ahead of us. Along our route (on one of the more dangerous stretches of road) we passed a big crater starting to fill with water, and fresh mud kicked up onto the road. We halted, pulled security, and called in EOD (Explosive Ordnance Disposal) to do an analysis.Long story short, it turns out the explosion we heard was a massive roadside bomb that had been set for our patrol, and *lightning* set it off just minutes before we passed right next to it. Can you believe that? A soldier called over the radio "I guess we know whose side
God is on after all" and we shared a nervous chuckle.So keep those prayers coming. Love, American Soldier

The mom forwarded this to her friends:

My pounding heart was filled with enormous gratitude to God for intervening in this situation to preserve the lives of the young men on this patrol, especially my son, American Soldier. I immediately thought of all the 'prayer warriors' like you who raise petitions continually on the behalf of our young men and women in uniform. Thank you, thank you, thank you. God hears our prayers and answers in ways we can't even imagine.

Now for the rest of the story. I got to my Bible Study discussion group, opened the lesson and scanned the comments I had written a week earlier from 1 Samuel 12:16-18. "...stand still and see this great thing the Lord is about to do before your eyes! ....that same day the Lord sent thunder and rain." God uses the forces of nature to teach his people; the people stood in awe of God. My heart filled with gratitude as I read what I had written a week earlier.

I share this true story with you to thank you for your prayers and to invite you to stand with me in awe of God, our protector and redeemer.
Your sister in Christ,
Mom of American Soldier