I was on my way to the local Chinese restaurant at the time and felt that they might well be a warning to the forthcoming black bean sauce.
It turned out that the 'welcome' and the 'blessed' aspects were particularly short lived and the 'stressed' and the 'toilet' were .... no I won't go into details. The message in the shop window was so correct, that I decided to look at the display in the other window on the way home.
Ha, Ha, I thought. Very funny - no way will I experience or need a miracle.
But I did.
The water pump packed up in the middle of nowhere, on the drive home. Steam hissed and rose steadily from under the bonnet. The engine stopped. We were stranded. few cars would be coming along the road and there was a family of four sitting like stewed prunes. The children had to be at school in two hours and the situation seemed hopeless.
Then, around the corner, returning from a trip to the Lake District, came the garage owner. He stopped and gave us a tow to his garage, before driving us home. Extraordinary.
I will be paying particular notice to the next window display at the Christian bookshop when it changes. I hope there are no Tarot Cards.
