Yes Virginia, There Are Angels

Hello Friends,

It's Sunday night and I just heard the Life Flight helicopter overhead. I always wonder who is critically ill and if it's someone I know and the thought of their family passes through my mind. I then silently say a prayer and give God thanks for all He does.

I understand we all have a time and place and I believe it's predestined by God. We're never ready to lose the ones we love or for that matter we don't want to leave our loved ones. The pain of losing dims with time, but the vacancy they leave never goes away.

I'm going to share something very sacred to me. You can believe or not, but it's true. The video bar to the right is Elvis singing "How Great Thou Art". You can listen as you read, if you choose.

This video bar on the right of the page is a song by the group
Alabama singing "Angels Among Us"
 You are welcome to listen as you read.

This may be lengthy, but I'll try to be to the point. Did you ever have goosebumps when something occurred and you knew in your heart that it wasn't of this world? 

That very thing happened to me a couple of weeks before my dad passed away. That was over eleven years ago and I still cry from the experience today because it was so awesome. He was very sick before he died and it was summer time so I sat on the porch most nights with the baby monitor listening to him breathe and 

just waiting for him to signal for help.

I prayed a lot that summer and I ask God to send His Angels to surround my dad and give him an easy passing and to let dad feel their presence. I shed a few tears on that porch that summer, but one evening I was sitting out there with my son. It was about 3:00am and something caught my attention from the corner of my eye.

I leaned forward in my chair and as I did I ask my son if he left the television on when he came outside. That's sort of what it reminded me of at the time. He said he hadn't and I stood up and looked through the glass door into the house. The only light that was on was way back in the utility room, so just a very dim light reached out. As I stood there I saw what looked like a moth shadow fluttering just beyond my field of vision, in toward that small room.

It suddenly struck me that the shadows were way too large for a moth. This all happened within a minute or so in time. I know my mouth dropped open as I turned back to my son and I felt this tremendous chill and knowledge that I was experiencing something great.

I felt the presence of something so sweet it just reduced me to tears of gladness and thankfulness. I was filled with wonder as I told my son and he looked and saw the fluttering shadows too. 

I've never forgotten that experience and I try to share it, but people look at me quizzically when I tell them how awesome it was to be in the presence of God's Angels. I understand that unless you experience it, then you won't understand. You may believe, but you won't know what the feeling was that encompassed us that evening. I wish that everyone could know and feel and see what we experienced.

To be in the presence of Angels that have come from the presence of our Savior is such a humbling feeling that I still tear up to this day and I still thank God for His answer to my prayer. I never got to share the story with my dad and I wanted to be there when he passed because I wanted to experience the Angels presence again, but it wasn't to be. I consoled myself with the knowledge that God had given me something special and I was secure in the belief that the Angels escorted him home.

Yes, you can believe in Angels and yes, you can ask God to send them to comfort people in time of need.

There are no words that can do justice to this experience, but in my simple way I felt the need to share this with you all. So............................

Until Later,

Okie Girl @ Home