Fireplace Screen....

Jim ran to the grocery store this morning after building a fire. I got done eating my breakfast in the chair by the fire and went out into the garage to take care of some laundry. We have some clothes that some kerosene spilled onto and I was rewashing them. I kept adding laundry detergent.... to the washer in hopes of getting the kerosene out of the clothes. I stayed out there watching the machine so that it didn't suds over. It seemed like no matter how much I added there was no extra suds..............as a matter of fact, there were no suds at all!!!! I squirted a bunch of Dawn dishwashing detergent into the washer and watched that for a minute. FINALLY, a little suds. OK, it's cold out there so I head back in to sit by the fire.....
I opened the door to the kitchen and the house is full of smoke....I glanced at the fire but it was burning fine......so I didn't see what was causing the smoke. As I got closer I saw that a large, smoldering log had rolled out of the fireplace onto the hearth and the only thing that stopped it was the new fireplace screen!!!!!! Tucker was sitting right there by the hearth on a pillow........and I know that pillow would have gone right up in flames!!! I was out in the garage long enough that there's a pretty good chance that the living room would have been up in flames before I came back in!!!!!!
Thank you, Lord!