For her things were going very well. Everything was going well between her and her boyfriend, she was happy with his work on the 64 floor of the north tower of theWTC, and despite her religious upbringing, she was very good without God, havingrejected Him long ago.
Despite being trapped for 27 hours under the rubble, believing that would certainly die, Guzman-McMillan told The Christian Post that he regretted his decisions that day. "No, I do not regret anything that happened," said the mother offour children. "It made me a better person. I have a deeper and closer relationshipwith God." Genelle, who lives on Long Island with her husband for nine years andtheir four children, has not always had this relationship with God. Despite having grown up in a Christian home, his wife of 40 years says she never took what hadbeen taught very seriously.
She tells her story of survival and salvation in "Angel in the Rubble: The MiraculousRescue of 9 / 11 's Last Survivor" (Angel in the Rubble: the miraculous rescue of the last survivor of 9.11), launched in August by Simon & Schuster. Within 240pages, a native of Trinidad Tobago shares how she and her colleagues began to leave the office at 110-story building and as she paused on the 13th floor to remove her high heels. Then, Guzman-McMillan says his world literally collapsedand his life changed forever.
With her hand still extended in the open space above it, Guzman-McMillan asked God to send a signal that he heard his supplication. "Someone grabbed me by my hand and called me by my name, saying, Genelle, I got you. My name is Paul," she told CBN. "I was asking God for a miracle, a sign [and Paul] held my hand tightly ...reassuring," he said, adding that she was sure it was not delusional.
Minutes after the appearance of Paul Guzman-McMillan could hear rescuersshouting for survivors. She remembers the men who know, finally, pulled from the rubble. But Paul, "I never got to know him," she told CP.
She is convinced that this mysterious Paul was an angel sent by God to encourage her throughout her ordeal, which was the signal for which she had prayed. As the debris was removed and taken to a hospital, she says she has felt a change. "I knew it was a different person. ... I was just praising and glorifying God," she said.Not long after being released from the hospital, where he remained for more thansix weeks and underwent four major surgeries, Guzman-McMillan said the onlything I had in mind was to be baptized, something she had promised God would do. Another promise on his list was to marry her boyfriend, which she did onNovember 7, the same day he was baptized.Genelle, who has been part of the Brooklyn Tabernacle Church for 10 years, toldCP that she knows that God brought her for a reason, through a "broken heart"trials and "horrible." "I think I'm here for one main reason and a higher purpose. Mylife today is a blessing. I [want] to let people know about my experience, I've beenand how I overcame that adversity in my life," told the CP. "I want people to know that God is real ... that prayer works."
Source: Christian Post