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This article is actually a few months old. I’ve been meaning to post it as a News Day Tuesday for a while now, but other news kept popping up. Anyway, there was a survey done in which more than half of Americans said they believed they were protected from harm by a guardian angel. So I was curious…do any of you believe in guardian angels, or have you experienced or witnessed guardian angels at work?
I’ve never directly experienced the workings of a guardian angel. At least, not to my knowledge. I will say that I think I’ve led a very fortunate life. Whether or not that’s because there’s an angel out there looking out for me, I don’t know.
In any case, even though I’ve never directly seen or experienced angels, people I know say they have. So, three stories. You be the judge.
First Story: A friend of mine – spiritual, but not religious – has three daughters. One night, they were having some kind of picnic or BBQ outside, and my friend was inside her house washing dishes or something along those lines, while her daughters were outside hanging out. When my friend went outside to rejoin her daughters, she saw that all three of them were staring up at something. When she turned to see what they were looking at, she saw a group of angels hovering above, almost like joking around, seeming like they were trying entertain her daughters. But when they caught sight of my friend, they stopped and disappeared.
Second Story: Same friend, but when she was much younger. Maybe 10 or so. My friend and her family went to the beach one day. While they were there, a storm started to kick up, with lots of wind. So they went to leave, except they had to climb up this cliff of some sort…not like rockclimb the cliff. There was a pathway that spiraled up the cliff, but there was no barrier to prevent people from falling off. Anyway, my friend is walking up the cliff behind her family. The only person walking behind her is her cousin. Then all of a sudden, she trips on something, loses her balance, and is about to fall over the side of the cliff. But then this big gush of wind kicks up, and she says she felt someone push her back on the cliff. My friend turned around and asked her cousin, “Did you see what just happened?” And the cousin said no, and didn’t believe my friend when she told her what happened. Then decades later, when she was talking with her cousin (the one who was walking behind her), the cousin admitted seeing my friend about to fall off the cliff, but then inexplicably something pushed her back.
Third Story: Another cliff. Except this time, it’s my uncle, his wife, and my cousin in a car driving along a cliff. This is a very long time ago…maybe 20 years. My uncle’s driving, my aunt and cousin are asleep in the car. Then for whatever reason, my uncle loses control of the car, he sees that they’re about to go off the cliff, then he blacks out. When he wakes up, the car is on the ground, no damage, and no one is hurt.
Those are my stories. Honestly? I don’t know what to make any of it. What do you think?