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Two lovely women I know.<\/p><\/div>\n

Guess who I called yesterday afternoon? Suzanne! She is the 88-year-old woman who called me by mistake a few weeks ago. We chatted for about an hour!<\/p>\n

I’ll admit I was cleaning out a hall closet for part of the time as we spoke. But, I can multi-task.\u00a0\ud83d\ude42 And I paid full attention to her.<\/p>\n

Finally, after an hour of chatting I needed to get off the phone and told Suzanne once again (I had tried a few times already) that I had better go. She then very enthusiastically told me that I had made her day by calling her! She thanked me over and over again. I told Suzanne that I was very happy to have chatted with her and I promised my prayers.<\/p>\n

God is so good and I am thanking Him for the opportunity to reach out to this woman. Only He knows the reason that He arranged all of this. But I have no doubt that God has a plan. Mother Teresa would call this woman “Jesus in the distressing disguise.”<\/p>\n

Here is a note <\/a>about our first phone conversation when Suzanne called me by mistake when dialing a wrong number.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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