Last Saturday I nearly hit a black Ferrari. I was coming out of a turning near my old home. Long experience had taught me there is never traffic there, so I completely failed to look. The Ferrari did not react well because the driver assumed – wrongly – that nobody would be so half-witted as to pull straight out into its path. I missed hitting it entirely by luck; there was absolutely no judgement there. The best I can say for myself is that at least my choice of target shows a certain class…
The point of this story is my reaction. I thanked my angels for watching over me (and made a note to self to be far more careful in the future). Once upon a time I would have been far more inclined to go into catastrophizing mode.
Do I have angels watching over me?
Obviously, I cannot know for sure. But it is a helpful belief. Maybe, at the unconscious level, that belief made the difference between just hitting and just missing that Ferrari. Maybe my belief that I was safe, helped me to react, in that split second, in a way that kept me safe. I will never know.
Two things I do know:
1) the belief that I have angels watching over me enabled me to complete my long drive home safely, without repeatedly reliving the incident and programming into my brain how close I came to disaster
2) it is a far, far cry from the way I would once have reacted.
Like a lot of abused women, I once lived a hostile world, in which bad things happened, almost exclusively.
There were no angels. Or more correctly, there were no angels watching over me. Although I could see... CLICK HERE to continue reading.
I believe we all have angels watching over us but ultimitly it is GOD'S command when the angel turns from watching to take us to meet our maker. I and my husband have had several instances in life where we believe an angel saved us from death. First, I am a survivor of many years of domestic spousal violence although at the time I really didnt believe in angels or GOD for that matter. As soon as I understood that I was to blame (not for the abuse) because I stayed in that relationship and allowed this to happen, I was able to move on to a better life. I have since married a man that is a genuine hero in my eyes because he helped me see that not all men are hurtful.
Second,we were on our way home with our christmas tree driving about 65 on the freeway when suddenly a pickup swerved across three lanes directly in front of us, hit the guardrail beside us and bounced back onto the freeway right as we passed by. Oh Lord, I was so scared for my family that I just about couldn't continue to drive. I'm not sure who my angel was that day but surely there had to be one as that instance could have been fatel going 65mph. The third time and angel visited was to save my husbands life while he was driving truck. He was on a deserted endless back road and had become tired from driving so many miles. He had only about 20 more miles to go before he could stop for sleep. He said he nodded off to sleep and was awoke by a feeling of someone (angel?) shaking his shoulder. When he opened his eyes he was going passed a really old grave yard, I know how ironic right? I made him promise to pull over when he gets that tired and he said he didn't feel as if he was that tired to fall asleep at the wheel and couldn't understand why he did. I just thank those angels and GOD for not taking my love from me. So for anyone out there that doesn't believe in angels, some day you might when you find you have come through a potentially disasterous situation with all sense intact. GOD BLESS everyone...Lisa
Posted by: I believe-Lea | April 05, 2009 at 09:03 PM