After Hurricane Helene swept through the southern Georgia town of Nashville, one resident says it was divine intervention that saved her life — and preserved one special item in her storm-ravaged home.

Sixty-two-year-old Cindy Cole is a grandmother whose home was still recovering from other weather-related damage when Hurricane Helene hit. She was asleep in her bedroom when the storm ripped through the area on the night of Sept. 26, according to Fox News.

Cole awoke when the electricity went out, and she says she started hearing a persistent voice telling her to move to safety.

“I had this little voice that kept saying, ‘Get up! Go to another room in your house,'” she recounts, saying that the voice repeated itself a couple more times.

About five minutes after she got up and left the room, a large tree from her neighbor’s yard crashed into her bedroom and landed directly on her bed. “I’m thinking it was the Lord telling me to move to another room,” Cole explains.

Photos of the damage published by Fox News show that tree branches ripped through the walls, leaving furniture scattered and in disarray around the bedroom. But one object — Cole’s Bible — remained propped up right where she left it on a dresser.

“When I first saw the Bible, I’m like, ‘Oh, look! I cannot believe that the Bible’s still standing,'” she remembers. “You cannot touch the word of the Lord. You cannot touch it.”

According to local news channel WALB News 10, people in Nashville and other Barrien County residents faced widespread power loss after the storm, along with shortages of food, gas, water and other basic amenities. The storm caught many by surprise, since the area was not expecting to get hit as hard as they were by Helene’s path.

“I don’t think anybody was prepared to experience a hurricane like this,” one local business owner said. “… We had one business board up their windows. One. None of us thought that it was gonna be this way.”

What to Know About Hurricane Helene

• Hurricane Helene first made landfall in Florida in late September, and over the next several days, it traveled through the southeast, leaving a trail of flooding damage and loss of life.
• More than 230 deaths were reported across six states — North Carolina, South Carolina, Florida, Georgia, Tennessee and Virginia — according to CNN.
• North Carolina returned the highest death toll. 117 people from the state lost their lives in the storm.
• Many more people remained unaccounted for after the storm, amid widespread road closures, flooding and power outages.

What Are Country Stars Doing to Help With Hurricane Relief?

• Many country stars, including those who hail from the southeast, have cut large checks or shared support for those impacted by the storms.
• Taylor Swift donated $5 million to Feeding America, sending those funds for relief efforts for both Hurricane Helene and the subsequent Hurricane Milton.
• Dolly Parton, who hails from Sevierville, Tenn., pledged $2 million in relief efforts, including a personal donation of $1 million.
• Morgan Wallen, a native of east Tennessee, made a $500,000 donation to the Red Cross to help residents of that area and the hard-hit western North Carolina region.
• Wallen also visited affected families in Tennessee, and even wrote a Bible verse on the studs of one damaged home.
• Eric Church released a song called “Darkest Hour (Helene Edit)” and earmarked the proceeds for relief efforts.
• Miranda Lambert and her MuttNation Foundation created a fundraiser for relief efforts, with a focus on aiding animal shelters hit by the storm, as well as emergency response efforts. She made a personal donation of nearly $100,000.