Angels

Some days in my foolishness, I forgot how close God is to me. I call out, I search in vain, when he's right beside me, watching over me...hopefully with a pleased look on his face...but, who knows? :)

Anyways in the summer of '06, I was driving down one of the busier streets in my hometown. I drive a standard (yea baby!) '94 Altima. Disaster strikes!!! ...and my car dies on me. The engine dies, but I still have momentum, so I shift to neutral, turn on the flashers, and pull over onto the left-turn lane. I open the hood.....and promptly call my father for assistance, having exhausted my extremely limited automotive knowledge. I was 10 minutes away from home, so he would be there pretty quick.

A woman pulls up to me, and asks if I need help. I puff out my chest, and answer confidently, "Don't worry. I've got the situation under control". How, could I ask a girl for help? Hopefully, it would convince her....it does!

A couple of minutes later, a jogger walks by. "Why don't you give it another try?", he suggests. At the time the weirdness of him jogging in the middle of the road (there was a median) eluded me. I cranked the car again, and it miraculously started! I turned to thank the kind stranger, and he was gone. And this was a long-stretch of road, I should have been able to see him leave...seeing as our contact lasted all of 15 seconds.

I remember talking about the situation with my friend, he suggested the jogger was an angel. I was kind of hesitant to label such a thing as a spiritual encounter. But when I look back on it, God did help me through that. In fact, he sent TWO angels. The first being that woman who offered to help who I turned away. The good Lord is so merciful, He sends a second.