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Searching for Billy

Article Summary   by:Souli     Original Author: John Gleason
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The following story is a journey of finding what was lost - guided by Love, Faith
and the miracle of Prayers.

Searching for Billy
by
John Gleason


Settings:
On a ship sailing to Puerto Rico, San Juan, the Virgin Islands

Main Characters:
John Gleason – the author
“A bright young Civil Engineer from Michigan”
“A worried-looking old man” – looking for a job in Puerto Rico after
he was fired from his thirty-year bookkeeping
job
Mrs. Charles Colmore – wife of the Episcopal Bishop of Puerto Rico
A young woman in search for her husband

Story:






I
t was October 1938.The author, on his way to Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands met a young civil engineer, an old man, the wife of the Episcopal Bishop of Puerto Rico, and a young woman who was looking for her husband.

The young woman heard a rumor that her husband, Billy Simpson has left for the West Indies. It was after a quarrel with her mother “over his drinking and his inability to support his wife properly”.

The group thought it would take a miracle to find Billy in the “hundreds of islands in the Carribean”. The girl did not even have friends where she was going and almost no money to get her back home. Still, she refused to go home. She insisted that she had to find her husband and that her “Prayers” would guide her.

In San Juan, the author and Mrs. Colmore lingered for a while to help the others look for a place to stay. They found a nice inexpensive hotel. As they registered, the young woman fainted.

Her husband’s name was on the registration book.

The author learned later from new friends in the Virgin Islands that they had a very sick patient named Billy Simpson. He got up one day and insisted to go to San Juan. It was the same Billy Simpson as confirmed by Mrs. Colmore’s letter. She believed that Billy’s
- “sudden cure from alcoholism,
- strange compulsion to go to San Juan,
- the guidance that led him to that hotel,
- his finding a job within 24 hours,
- and the guidance that took the group to that hotel”
were miracles of Prayer.

Afterwards, the author received a letter from the old man. He found a job and joined the church.

It was a mind-opening experience for the author. It taught him not to be afraid to believe.

See full story: Guideposts, March 1995, p. 140.
Published: October 08, 2007   
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