Episode Transcript
SPEAKER A
00:00:00 - 00:07:13
Often people say that there are no miracles performed these days. Well, I'd like to challenge that because I know God has helped me. I'm just going to tell some stories how God has prompted me. Welcome to Miracles in the 21st Century. I'm Robyn Scales. Many years ago when I was young and we'd been married a couple of years, we were traveling around Australia in a car and a caravan, and we were up North Queensland. We were working Um, on a tin mine. My husband was doing most of the, um, driving of the trucks and the bulldozers and then blowing up to dig up the tin and all that sort of stuff. And I helped around a little bit with bits and pieces here and there. Anyhow, I was pregnant and it was getting close to the end, and I had a very strong urge that I should go back and be with family when I had this baby. It was our first child. And my parents were in New Guinea. They were missionaries over there. But Warren's brother was in Victoria and we sort of felt we should go down to his place. So, but we didn't have money. So I thought, well, we can, I can do some tailings. I'll work on the tailings and see if we can sell the tin. So Warren was working on the jig and other people were. It wasn't just him. And I went down to the tailings and there was a lot of really fine tin in the tailings at this time. And it was amazing, really amazing. I was able to get enough tin in about 3 days to fill a bucket. My back sure hurt. But, you know, we got the bucket full and we went to where we could sell the tin. And it just— It was just a miracle. It was the day that the tin was the highest and we were able to sell the tin for enough money for us to drive our 4-wheel drive Land Cruiser and our caravan from just west of Cairns down to Gippsland in Victoria. For me, that was a miracle. When we got there, I went and saw the doctor and the baby wasn't in the right position, things, and it wouldn't turn. And So he decided he needed to do a caesarean section. Being a nurse, that was fine. I understood. And I went in to have it. Warren was a nurse as well, so he waited outside. Apparently it took a lot longer than expected and Warren was getting a bit worried. And then when the nurse came out and told him that there was problems with the baby, it was spina bifida and hydrocephalic. Oh my God. Which means that the fluid on the brain couldn't leak down. It usually goes down into the spinal cord and into the body to go around, and it just couldn't. So the head was a lot bigger than normal. And the spina bifida was a hole in the spine where the spine didn't keep going down. It was very high up in the back. So therefore, yeah, she would never be able to walk or do anything. Wow. Her hands did move, but her legs and her lower body were all paralyzed. She was sent to the children's hospital where she died about 9 days later. It was very sad, but I was very— we knew why God had sent us there. Because we needed to be near family. And I know that God was with us in that time. Another time that I know, we were in Bangkok. We'd gone over there because the baby had died. We went over there to help work with the Cambodian refugees, and we'd stayed there longer. We'd gone for 3 months, but we ended up staying there for 13 years. And we had 2 children born there. They were healthy. strong children. But Bangkok was where we end up living for most of that time. And Bangkok, very polluted, a lot of traffic, a lot of, um, yeah, a lot of pollution. And our son continually had chest infections, and he'd be— he went to hospital numerous times. Um, we came up to a time where we were thinking we had to decide and tell the committee whether we were going to stay for another 3 years or whether we were going to go leave and come back to Australia. And we had all the reasons why we should leave, you know, his health, it was our daughter's education, she's a few years older, and there was just so many things. Anyhow, we had all these reasons. And that week we were reading a week of prayer reading from the record. And we'd got the record, and it was probably about 3 to 6 months later than what you get it in Australia. And I don't know when it was written before that to be put into the record. But anyhow, we're reading it, and every single reason that we'd written down that we should go back to Australia, there was Bible verses and reasons and texts For us to know that's not— we need to stay. I cried. So the next day we told the committee that we would stay longer. And it was good. I'm glad we stayed. Steve's health did improve. It was probably about 3 years later that we were asked to move to Singapore, which is a very clean, safe city. And that was really good for the kids. They had freedom. And after we'd been there for about 3 years, our daughter Julie was getting to the end of year 8, and the school, the church school that she was going to, finished at the end of year 8. And we had to either send her to one of the schools in Singapore, and if we were to send her to the Australian high school, it would have cost us $50,000 a year and we didn't have that. The other option was to send her down to Australia to Lilydale. I didn't want that. And, you know, you're sort of going through all these things trying to figure out what you should do and we're praying about it. And then we received a call for Warren to come back to Australia and work for ADRA. Australia in in Wahroonga, and that was just that was just an answer to prayer. We weren't expecting that. We didn't know it would happen, and it was just God was answering and sending us where we needed to be at the right time, and He was looking after us. And I just thank God so much for His blessings, and He's been with us. He's been our shelter. He's been our strength, and we love Him. Thank you.
