Major Flood Waters Recede After Prayer

We live in the Northern United States, close to Canada by a river. There’s a good size creek that runs through our front yard. That river is fed by mountains around us and this winter we had quite a lot of snow. A few weeks ago the temperatures rolled into the 80’s and 90’s for quite a few days and the snow was melting rather quickly. The creek started rising and carrying with it a lot of debris, branches and some logs. We sit way down in this little ravine and between us and the river is the highway built 40 feet high across our property fully blocking us off from the river except for a small covert, then it goes under the highway. For days the debris was starting to pile up and the creek was still rising. I called the Department of Transportation several times already because it was clogging up, but each time they said no big deal, it was still flowing through.

I’ve been watching and praying about the weather and the covert situation keeping my thoughts on God’s everpresence and loving care for me and everyone in this situation. The water started flooding our yard and came up to the house. I got my dad and sister out of the house, and I called my faithful practitioner. I trusted all was well. We went looking for a Motel that day, but there weren’t any available, so we went back to the house. The water had receded, and within two hours it was gone. I checked the covert several times but I felt no fear that night staying there. I had called my husband home from work out of town, and by the time he got there, there was no water in the yard. I told the practitioner when I had checked with her that we were in the ark and she had me look up on the Plainfield website for The Liberator, which the theme was handling the weather. Mary Baker Eddy’s “Mother’s lesson on Rain” was very helpful. “God governs the elements; there's nothing destructive or harmful. God sends the rain that waters the Earth. If thunder, lightning, and rain come then forces are of God and not destructive. If too much rain, realize Harmony.”

The next day my husband decided to stay home and we called the D.O.T again, and they looked at it and said that there was some stuff there stuck in the covert, but it was still flowing through so they didn’t try to remove anything. It seemed fine until that evening when my husband came in and said that the water was coming up in the yard again. So, I loaded up my sister and my dad and just decided to take them to my daughter’s house a couple hours away. My husband and our neighbor, who has a big excavator, tried pulling some of the stuff out, but the water was just rising too fast. Our neighbor whose Father owned the property before us said that decades ago that covert got clogged and water went all the way up to the highway with boats and trailers and all kinds of things swirling around in the water. I refused to believe that picture, that God would let anything like that happen. I was a little ways from the house and my husband called me and told me that the covert was totally plugged and that the water was rising very fast and he barely got out. I said no very loudly in my mind and I hung up the phone.

I pulled over and I texted my practitioner and she texted me right back and said “And to the proud wave thus far and no farther.” About ten minutes after the practitioner texted me that, I decided to drive back to the house to help comfort my husband. He called me back and he said he was standing up on the highway looking down just watching the water rise up the side of the house thinking it would be swallowed up in just a few minutes and then he heard the loudest popping cracking noises he ever heard before, like thunder and trees falling and the clogging just broke up, giant trees and all. A few minutes later when I got home I saw that only a few inches had gotten into the house, and only for a few minutes. I held on for the whole time, the forces of God, that none of the forces of God are destructive but are the action of God which is everywhere and cannot be destroyed. Thanks to my practitioner’s help we saw this truth realized and the severe weather conditions that were to keep coming never came. I’m so grateful for Mary Baker Eddy, Christian Science, my practitioner, and for God guiding me to Plainfield, and being able to serve God however he guides me too. I’m grateful for everyone's testimony given here each week and for all the members who work to make Plainfield a wonderful place to come.