11 Godwink on TODAY - KAREN KINGSBURY - 5/14/15

this one is about karen kingsworthy berry she had just become america's number one inspirational novelist and she was leaving the offices of her publisher in new york she was ecstatic and she had been told that her sales were now over 20 million but she had no idea of what god wink was about to happen oh good setup squire i was so excited about my book the first person i wanted to call was my dad i knew he'd be so proud but i had to stop myself see dad had died of a heart attack years earlier my mind drifted to the day that he had called to tell me about a song he'd heard how he would think about all of us whenever he heard it [Music] it was rod stewart's have i told you lately that i love you have i told you i had the lyrics engraved on the flower holder near his tombstone we seemed to always hear the song at times when dad would have been so proud of us wishing he were there but that day as i left the simon schuster building in new york with my daughter kelsey and her husband kyle it wasn't likely we'd hear dad's special rod stewart song the three of us decided to visit highline park in lower manhattan strolling the walkways kyle suggested we get a picture he tried to get one with all of us a selfie at that moment a man passed by and offered to help the man took the picture looked at it and said wow that's lovely as he walked off kelsey's eyes grew wide mom do you know who that is that's rod stewart i was shocked sir sir i called after him are you rod stewart he put his hand on my arm and said yes yes i am i told him about my dad and our special song tears formed in rod stewart's eyes he lifted his hands upward then looked at me you just made my day the three of us sat on a nearby bench after that and tried to imagine the odds of running into rod stewart on a day when i was missing my dad of course there are no odds and i don't doubt for a second the dad had something to do with it oh my god that is a god wink but wait there's more karen kingsbury we hope you're watching right now because we reached out to rod stewart and not only did he recall meeting you and said it was a wonderful moment he sent you this video hi karen it must have been divine intervention that brought us together that afternoon and i'm glad it did i'd love you to be my guest on some of my july dates in america or in august in las vegas would be great too and i dedicate a song to your late father if i told you lately apparently it was one of his favorites and also congratulations on the book see you then bye oh please rod's actually a very sweet guy but that story is that's amazing it just shows that everybody has god winks we just need to look for them and you know what else squire everyone has a story too and when we come back she's got something good cooking oh we love that we want to hear your god wings everybody head to klganhoda.com click the connect button and um you might end up in one of squire's great book real quick how do you get all these people send them they just send them to you on your website and he makes sure that they're true yeah you got to make sure that that's wonderful squire that was because it's so uplifting and she's a wonderful a lot of hallmark woman and things she's yeah her books have been adapted a brand new book chasing sunset wow yeah she's lovely well you know what you're right everyone does have a story and one of the loving daughters she's going to share her special story with her mom plus two moms

Channel: SQuire Rushnell

Views: 25,157

Rating: 4.8980894 out of 5

Keywords: God Wink, godwinks, god winks, no accidents, coincidence, Karen Kingsbury (Author), kathie lee and hoda, Kathie Lee Gifford (TV Personality), Hoda Kotb (TV Personality), inspiration story, Father's Day (Holiday), father's story, father's love, Rod Stewart, have I told you lately that I love you

Id: 0lYa49ii_BY

Length: 3min 58sec (238 seconds)

Published: Thu May 14 2015