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God Works in Mysterious Ways

C. Gialluca, Columnist / Author

On that fateful day when the 912 project was unveiled, a husband and wife were headed down the road in an 18 wheeler listening, not knowing that their future involvement would lead to something miraculous. Both were angry at what their nations was becoming. Both had avidly listened on XM radio to the campaigns, and the primaries, even the political conventions. They had been tuned out for some time prior to that, and as they listened to the momentum that Obama was gaining they were horrified. They knew what his probable election meant to their country. The husband, retired from the US Navy, ranted about how he hadnt spent 18 years in the Navy only to see some politician usurp the nations freedoms, while the wife shook her head at the actions of the Bush administration, and what she felt was probably a worse one coming down the road. Both felt helpless and unempowered. Then Glenn Beck said 3 very powerful words; “We Surround Them”.

The next day the wife went looking for websites with “The 9-12 Project” titles. She found a few. Some were very hard to follow, but one was in a format that she understood well. It was a forum. She was an avid online gamer and had been using forums for many years. It was easy to follow and while it was small, barely 500 members, the people there seemed to be more proactive, rather then just sitting around complaining, which is what she found on most the other places she found. She joined the forum, and read some ideas that the members were discussing. One of those ideas intrigued her and she told her husband about it. It was a discussion about the creation of a petition for a Redress of Grievances. She posted a few things that crossed her mind about it, not expecting much as they seemed to have a handle on it. She was pleasantly surprised when she was asked to participate in the drafting of the petition, of course she agreed.

For the next month, she made suggestions, bounced things off her husband, who also made suggestions which she passed along to the committee, and as it came together, took on the task of researching the items within the petition. When the petition went live, she made sure to sign it and promote it, even going as far as making a youtube video for it. People coming to the petition wanted to know who put it together. They feared that it was in some way a political activist group that was collecting email addresses to turn over to some entity that they werent sure was what they wanted to be linked to. So the owner of the web sight where the petition is posted asked if those involved in its writing would mind if he put up a short biography on them, not much basically name and location, to show that we were just average people who had an idea. We all agreed, and it was from that biography that the miracle took a life of its own.

Twelve years had passed since the husbands second wife had walked out the door with their 5 year old daughter. He had met his current wife afterwards and she had helped him through the difficult time of his separation, and he had married her after a year of getting past the desertion and getting a divorce. In that time he had seen his daughter only twice, and talked to her only 3 or 4 times. The last time he had seen her she was about 6 years old. He had attempted to keep in touch with his daughter, but his ex-wife made it difficult. Shed change her phone number after he'd call, move, or create financial issues for him in order to prevent his contact. After one call when he could hear her yelling in the background while he was talking to his daughter he decided that it was best for the girl if he let it go and contacted her when she turned 18 and could make her own decisions. He still thought about her often, and it was especially painful when he drove close to her home city and had to pass it by without seeing her. She was nine when he last spoke to her.

Last Friday he was driving through her home state knowing he had a great deal of time to get where he was going, and wishing he knew where his daughter was and he could stop and visit. It was mid afternoon, and he was tired so he pulled into a truck stop, had lunch, and took a short nap. His wife, as usual, was on the forum catching up on the posts that had been made that day. One of the forum members told her that he had sent her something in her email, and they joked about how shed have to wade through hundreds of junk emails just to find what he sent. The husband had awoken and was just about to get back on the road when she decided that she should tackle her email in box. Along with all the junk was an email from the owner of the petition site. The email stated that he had received an email, which he copied to her, and asked what she wanted him to do about it. The contents took her breath away. She excitedly told her husband that he HAD to look at it. His reaction was something along the lines of “Oh God, What has Obama done now?” He had yet to start the truck so he turned around and looked over his seat at the email open on her desktop. What he saw brought tears to his eyes and he was speechless. It said: (the daughters name has been changed for her protection)

“Hi. My name is Sandra. And I am messaging to ask if you can please give me the email address of Peter Gialluca Jr. You see, I have been searching for a way to talk to my biological father and I have strong reason to believe that Mr. Gialluca is my father. If you cannot give me the address then it is ok. I completely understand. If you can, then I will be overjoyed. Thank you for your time.

Sandra Gialluca”

Of course the wife immediately sent an email telling the site owner to give her the husbands email address, his cellphone number, and of course the wifes email address. The wife, knowing the phone number of the site owner, even called him requesting that he give the information, unfortunately he was out of the house at the time. The couple was so overcome that they could not continue down the road, and remained overnight at the truck stop in hopes that they would hear from his daughter. The next morning he even brought his cellphone with him to breakfast, something he never does, in hopes that it would ring. When they got back to the truck the wife checked her email again and had a message from the site owner that he had replied to the young woman, basically he had replied to her and sent the reply to the couple as well. It contained the young womans email address, and the couple quickly sent her an email as first contact giving her the email addresses and phone number again.

The driver had to get back on the road but waited for his phone to ring. His wife stayed on the computer with her messenger open and watched for any emails from the young woman. Yesterday evening the awaited email arrived. It contained a picture, the first he had ever seen of her since she was 5, and a phone number of her friend where she could be reached most of the time. It took awhile but he found a safe place to stop, and turned to see a picture of a beautiful young woman. He decided to take the chance that she was at her friends home and called. His daughter answered the phone.

They spoke for about an hour, trying to catch up for all the time they had missed. His daughter is a junior in high school, with plans to go to college and become a nurse. He explained why he had not kept in contact all these years, trying very hard not to put the blame on her mother, but said he thought it would be best for her not to have to be under that kind of pressure at such a young age. He told her that his plan was to wait until she turned 18 and then find her again, and attempt to reconnect. She was not angry, she was very understanding. While he spoke with her, his wife sent off an email to her siblings with the picture and the contact information so that they could also talk to her as it had been twelve years since they had. She told them that their father was talking to her now, and asked that they give him the time to do so. It was, for the couple and the long lost daughter, a beautiful moment.

As I began this story I said that God works in mysterious ways.

While we feel that Gods plan with the petition has a much greater purpose, He took the time to answer a nine year long prayer using the petition as his means for which to provide a miracle for this family. I have tears as I write this story, and I praise Him for his wisdom, and his compassion. While it was obviously His work that brought about this reunion, Id also like to thank Dave, DrWarren, and the rest of those who put their time, energy, and hope in the Million Signature March, for this small action in a greater scheme of things. Id also like to thank Glenn Beck for galvanizing this movement. Were it not for each and every one of you, this healing moment for our family would never have taken place. Thank You.