AMAZING STORY
Eyewitnesses to the " Good Friday Miracle" (cont.)
By Zsa Zsa Palagyi
The 700 Club
CBN.com -“I’ve heard too many stories through this tragedy where I should have done this, but I did this instead,” declares Ben Dishner.
Ben lived and worked part-time at The Mayfair Mews before the navy jet destroyed his home.
“There’s no earthly reason for me to be standing here talking to you today,” Ben continues. “I take my lunch religiously at 11:30am to 12:30pm each day and by all rights, I should have been in my house playing computer games, but God told me to set some more tile. I’m like, but it’s 5 minutes ‘til twelve, I’m passed lunch. You know I’m gonna go to lunch, and something said nah, just set these 8 more tiles. 8 more tiles – well I say 8 more tiles saved my life, but God saved my life.”
The jet crashed through Ben’s apartment window and set his place on fire. But since he wasn’t there, his life was spared. As was his wife’s and his father in law’s life. “Well my father in law, we had to take him to the hospital a couple of months before. He had some complications and had to go to rehab. If he hadn’t have gone to rehab, he would have been home. A week before the crash, they changed my wife’s schedule. If they hadn’t changed her schedule, she’d have been sitting on the couch when the plane came through the front window.”
Sandy Hall would normally have been at home when the jet crashed, as well – but her plans changed at the last minute on that Friday morning, saving her life, too.
Sandy says, “I have a cleaning business and a client had texted me and asked me to come later being that it was Good Friday and her son was home from school, so I texted her back and said ‘how about around 10?’ She said ‘perfect.’ So I left her at 20 to ten instead of leaving here at 8 ‘o clock like I normally do. And normally I’m home at noon. Well, it was about 12:30pm, quarter to one when I got the phone call at work that a jet had crashed.”
While Sandy was out, her apartment and everything in it went up in flames.
But even people that WERE home made it out safely.
Cheryl McKee owns a pet supply store right next to Mayfair Mews and remembers, “I actually watched a man walk out of the apartment that the plane went in. He came out the front door, the plane went down the back. And he came out and didn’t really realize something had happened.”
Linda Warnick was in her 2 story townhouse with her grandchildren Egan and Haven when the jet made impact. But they too made it through their front door without a scratch.
“People across in the other townhouses told us that the heat was so intense that they couldn’t come out their front doors,” Linda says. “They went out the back doors.”
Egan remembers, “I didn’t even feel nothing. I didn’t even feel the flames.
It’s kind of like God protected us.”
Haven didn’t feel the flames, either. “I felt God just around me, hugging me.”
Linda adds, “At one point she said, ‘God encapsulated us in a bubble and saved us from the heat.’”
What could have gone down in history as a tremendous tragedy… is remembered more today as a miracle.
Linda Warnick states, “God definitely was on the scene that day. Because otherwise if it had gone a few feet further, we wouldn’t be here today to tell the story. And it definitely makes you think, you might not be thinking about God, but He’s right there all the time thinking about you.”
Sandy Hall adds, “What else kept me from being in my home that day? What else kept me and anybody from being hurt? Not even the pilots.”
Mayor Sessoms declares, “If there’s ever been a miracle and had prayers answered, this was the case.”
Ben Dishner concludes, “God had His hand all around this.”
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