Late one afternoon, we were heading home from a hunting excursion our family took every year.\u00a0 I grew up in this small town, and as you drove down the street, there was a railroad track with a stop sign.\u00a0 The tracks were rarely used, and as a kid I would just barrel through the stop sign, no need to look.\u00a0 This afternoon, going down this same street, fast approaching were the tracks and the stop sign.\u00a0 I had many of my children with me, chattering about the weekend, all of us looking forward to going home.\u00a0 As I approached the tracks, I heard this loud voice say STOP.\u00a0 It was so prominent, I stopped the car.\u00a0 Immediately after stopping, a train whizzed by right in front of the car.\u00a0 Our lives were saved that day,\u00a0 God was watching over us that day, as every other day.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Late one afternoon, we were heading home from a hunting excursion our family took every year.\u00a0 I grew up in this small town, and as you drove down the street, there was a railroad track with a stop sign.\u00a0 The tracks were rarely used, and as a kid I would just barrel through the stop sign, no need to look.\u00a0 This afternoon, going down this same street, fast approaching were the tracks and the stop sign.\u00a0 I had many of my children with me, chattering about the weekend, all of us looking forward to going home.\u00a0 As I approached the tracks, I heard this loud voice say STOP.\u00a0 It was so prominent, I stopped the car.\u00a0 Immediately after stopping, a train whizzed by right in front of the car.\u00a0 Our lives were saved that day,\u00a0 God was watching over us that day, as every other day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1199,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[43,44,42,40,41],"class_list":["post-1198","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hope","tag-blessings","tag-fingerprints-of-god","tag-god","tag-hope","tag-miracles"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebighopeletters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1198","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebighopeletters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebighopeletters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebighopeletters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebighopeletters.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1198"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thebighopeletters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1198\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1215,"href":"https:\/\/thebighopeletters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1198\/revisions\/1215"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebighopeletters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1199"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebighopeletters.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebighopeletters.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebighopeletters.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}