Post 6.0.0.0 had a mention of my Grandma L and "Uncle L and the laying on of hands." This is a story she told. She was proud of it.
My Uncle L, Grandma L's son, owned property in southern and northern California. He still drives up and down the state, keeping up with them. They're small houses, for the most part, that he rents out. Over the years, the rents have paid off the mortgages.
Grandma lived in southern California. Sometimes she'd ride along with Uncle when he went north. It was a nice little trip and a way to spend time with him.
During one trip, her intuition triggered. While at a highway rest stop, she became sure that his car was about to have big engine trouble. It was going to happen far away from any town and would be a severe inconvenience and possibly leave them in an unsafe condition.
She had, as mentioned in the previous post, "learned to pay attention" to her sudden intuitions. She told Uncle and told him they should find a mechanic at the next town to look the car over and find out what was about to go. Uncle just smiled and shook his head. It was a long drive. It was tiring even if you didn't slow it down further with crazy side trips.
There wasn't anything that the car was doing that she could reasonably interpret as a sign that it was having trouble. He wasn't about to go to a strange mechanic and tell him to find something wrong with the car to fix, when he didn't have anything he could tell him wasn't working.
Grandma fretted. Grandma was in a quandary, but she didn't put it like that. That's my interpretation after listening to the story. In the story as she told it, she was worried. She could feel this mechanical failure coming with a sureness that could not be questioned. But her warnings were being ignored. What could she do to protect this person that she loved, who was going to have such trouble so soon?
Finally, she thought to pray about it, and it came to her. Things could be healed by laying on hands. She had heard that. So that was what she'd do. She gathered her certainty and her faith in healing by touch, and she laid her hands on the hood of the car.
She said she could feel the looming breakage, about to happen, just fade away in a glow of love and power. Now she could relax. Things would be all right.
And she told the story to show that she could bring that kind of power to bear. She had saved Uncle L from that breakdown. She was generous enough with her loved ones, that even though he had pooh-poohed her forecast, and hadn't been willing to do what it took to save himself from the failure, which could have caused an accident, you never knew. Even then, she would go the extra mile and save him when he wouldn't save himself.
She quite frankly told the story as evidence that her intuitions were right. The story was proof. She had had to call down the power of God to keep that car running. And she had been beside herself before she had thought of it. Proof positive.
We didn't know what to say. Us kids kept quiet and I think Mom said something about being glad that they had had a safe trip. We didn't hurry to leave. My sister and I talked about it a little bit later.
Oh, and the quandary comment I made earlier. Even when I was hearing the story, I was thinking that the laying on hands bit was meant to be a clever way to keep from being proved wrong. And once Uncle L refused to get the car looked at, she was going to be proved wrong.
Looking back now, I wonder if she was trying to get her story in before Uncle had a chance to say anything. He never commented on it, though, unless he was there when she was repeating it. His only comment even then was "Mom gets these ideas." So if she had made up the 'healing,' after the trip in order to protect the sanctity of her intuition, it was unnecessary.
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