Single Sketches – The Unexplainable

Single Sketches

The Unexplainable

Suzanne:  “I was sitting in my car one evening at a light on my way home from work when a stranger appeared out of nowhere and tapped on the passenger window.  He asked if I had a jack because he had a flat tire.  Frightened by all the news accounts of horrible things happening on the streets to unsuspecting drivers, I pressed hard on the accelerator and sped off down the street.  As I glanced in the rearview mirror, I saw a look of pure anguish on his face.  Then suddenly, like a lightning bolt, I could hear the words of my Aunt Sibley, as if she was in the car with me.  At a family reunion last year, she gently said to me in a mystic way after teasing me about still being unmarried, ‘Honey, when you do meet your husband, you’ll be frightened at first, but you will quickly find that you have nothing to fear.’

“Suddenly, my fear left as it had come and I turned my car around in the middle of the street as if drawn by some magnet.  When I pulled up to his car, I saw the flat and without hesitation, I got out and gave him my jack.  It turned out that he was an off-duty policeman whose tire had blown out on the freeway.  And when he smiled and thanked me for coming back, I looked into his gorgeous eyes and said a quick prayer that was almost audible, that he was the husband Aunt Sibley was talking about.  And he was.  I married him a year later.”

Kelly:  “One night I was sitting in the car with a guy I’d been involved with for over two years and out of the blue, he told me he couldn’t see me anymore.  He said he was going away to make a needed change in his life.  I was so stunned, I couldn’t speak.  I almost choked at the thought of him leaving my life forever.  I felt shattered inside.  I had always hoped we would be married and I knew our families felt the same way.

“But suddenly, as he continued to talk of his plans and his future, a peace I can never explain came over me.  My anger dissolved and my spirit began to lift.  I had a peace that seemed to reassure me that though he was leaving, he would be back.  And in spite of what he was saying, I was to wait for him.   When I got out of his car, I felt bewildered but calm.  And that calm lasted until he returned eighteen months later with a ring and asked me to be his wife.”