Mom Sits Down Next To Baby, Then She Hears Voice That Sends Her Running

Amanda Shea

Tanya Tyler pictured with her home in Spokane, Washington

Tanya Tyler had just grabbed a batch of laundry and sat down to fold it, right next to where her baby was laying. Before she even picked up the first article of clothing, she was overcome with a sense that something was wrong, then she heard a voice telling her to do something.

The Spokane, Washington mother told KREM that she had an unmistakable feeling that her and her baby’s safety was in imminent danger. Without second guessing her gut instinct, she stopped what she was doing immediately, then heard a “voice” telling her to run. Tyler grabbed her infant and bolted out of the room with nothing but her baby.

She hadn’t even made it to the threshold of the door when she heard a loud crashing sound coming through the ceiling in the living room, where she and her infant had been just seconds before. Next thing this intuitive mother knew, she was covered in dust and insulation and looked up to see a massive tree which had come crashing through the home, piercing the place where she and her baby had sat.

Aftermath of Tyler’s house being stuck by the tree

“As I was setting the laundry down, I actually heard in my mind, like instinctively, maybe, ‘RUN,’” Tanya told the local news station. “And I didn’t hear any trees at the time falling, but I turned quickly and grabbed the car carrier with one hand in front of the swing. And as we took one step, you could hear the tree inside the living room.”

Had it not been for following the sudden instinct that overcame her and listening to the unexplained directive she said she heard in her mind, Tyler and her small child would have likely been impaled by this large tree that had snapped in half and fallen through the roof. Both mother and child were unharmed, and she thanks her intuition and perhaps a “higher power” for saving their lives.

View from inside the home after the tree came crashing down on where mom and baby were

“I looked back, and the tree had just smashed where the laundry basket was where I was standing,” Tyler said. “So if I was just a couple seconds later, who knows where I would be. So, am I grateful? So grateful. So grateful at this moment for my life, for the baby’s life.”

The damage to the house was so extensive that it will take months to repair, but at least this family is safe and staying with relatives in the meantime. Without a doubt, this wasn’t a coincidence or one force of nature working in her favor against another one — this was God sparing this mother and child from harm. Tyler said she didn’t know what prompted her that afternoon, but hopefully she will see this miracle for what it was — an answer to saving her life indefinitely, which she may or may not have known she was looking for.

h/t: [SFGlobe]