Sunday 02/07/10 @ 7:00am/Rosalie

There's a fellow employee of mine that has a broken foot so she has this scooter she puts her leg on & pushes herself around the jail that way. She really struggles to get around & is very slow. This particular morning as I was getting off the graveyard shift she was having an especially hard time. I helped her through doors & as we headed outside she became very nervous about falling down. It had snowed during the night, not much but the sidewalks were slick and it was cold. Another gal that worked with her was also helping so when we got outside I thought ok she can help her from here. I headed to my car & watched her slowly inching her way to hers. I got in my car & fired it up to let it warm up. I grabbed my ice scraper & got out to start scraping my windows, still watching as Rosalie inched her way to her car. Then suddenly I sensed God saying go help her. I was thinking I already did help her, besides, her co worker was still with her. But I kept getting nudged to go help her. I knew it was God telling me to help her so as much as I wanted to hurry home so I could get some sleep I decided to be obedient. I went over & helped the co-worker get Rosalie into her car. While she was putting her scooter in the trunk of her car I proceeded to scrape off the snow & ice from her windows. Rosalie was almost in tears and she had her window down thanking us saying how she was worried about how she was going to push herself around the car to clean the windows. I told her it was no problem & asked her if she was ok. She said yes so I told her to drive safe and headed back to my car where I proceeded to clean off my windows. I got in my car & started driving towards the gate to exit the parking lot. I saw Rosalie's car still had not moved. Again I sensed God saying go back & see if she's ok. I was almost out the gate & I thought oh she's fine. She's probably just letting the car warm up so I continued home. After all it was my weekend & I wanted to get out of there. I didn't think much more of it until the following Wednesday night coming back into work when I ran into the other co-worker who helped Rosalie out to her car Sunday morning. She was in tears & asked me "Did you hear about Rosalie?" And I said who is Rosalie, because until then I didn't know what the persons name was we helped. The co-worker said Rosalie is the one we helped the other morning. I replied what about her? She said "She died that Sunday night"! I gasped & asked how? She said she went home that Sunday morning from work & later that day ended up in the emergency room. They had to do surgery on her & she died from a blood clot in her leg. I couldn't believe what I was hearing. We talked a little more then headed to our offices. As I thought about Rosalie throughout the day it became clear to me that God had used me to show Rosalie his love for her during her last day of her life. I felt honored to be the one He had chosen to do this for him & I thanked him that he placed it on my heart that it was him talking to me & that I needed to be obedient. As I thanked God I couldn't help but to wonder how else God would have used me that day if I would have gone back & checked on Rosalie one last time that morning... My apologies also for not sharing this story He said to share sooner. Jill Huston