David from Family Room Media recounts an unusual encounter of a lady from North Carolina; an encounter that challenged her theology.

She was visiting a recreational area where she had just turned aside from admiring the view when she spotted a man examining some steep cliffs with a pair of binoculars. She sensed Father urging her to approach him, so she walked over and tapped him on the shoulder. The man lowered his binoculars and looked intently at her when she said “God just wants you to know that he loves you and cares for you.” The stranger turned, put his forehead on the hood of his car a wept. He finally told her that she had saved his life, that he had just lost his wife and was planning to take his own by casting himself from the cliffs. He eagerly accepted her offer to pray with him and hungrily received the words of life she shared with him. A few moments later she left him to get something she needed in the tourist facilities which had large glass windows providing a unhindered view of the natural beauty without. As she left the facility to return to her vehicle, she noticed the man she had prayed with wandering through the parking area as if looking for something. Once more, she felt prompted to go to him. When she reached him, he was kneeling in a puddle of muddy water. “Please baptize me!” he said. A myriad of objecting thoughts crowded her mind, thoughts about a woman baptizing a man in a mud puddle where he couldn’t be fully immersed, by what authority, etc., etc. But she was sensitive enough to the Holy Spirit that the inaudible voice urging her to “just do it!” overrode her religious scruples.

So a lone woman baptized a male stranger in a mud puddle as an amazed audience stared at the spectacle through windows made especially for viewing.

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David Fredrickson