I love angel stories....
even though I am not religous at all we have a few as well....
my bernie has his very own angel that wears plaid.... we even call this angel, 'bernie's angel'
one night about 18 years ago or so maybe 16...... bernie was coming home from work in jersey....he was late it was winter and pretty cold.
he got up to the andover exit on rt 80 and the car died.
since it was past normal traffic time there literally was no one on the road... there was no exit for miles....it was a dark new moon, no lights NOTHING. that area is still today really rural, hilly and empty.
so quiet and still you can hear your eyelids blink.
he looked under the hood but realized that there was no way he could fix the car as the rotor had gone and he didn't have a replacement. it was an old old chevy...... like a 72 or something....
so he got back into the car and tried to sleep, what else could he do....?
meanwhile I was frantic.......terrified at what I imagined happened to him
Ok he had fallen asleep and was woken up by someone tapping on his window.....
he hadn't fallen into a deep sleep... and was up immediately
there was a man in a plaid shirt that asked him what happened........and could he help bernie....
now it was pitch black out and a NEW MOON...... you can't get any darker then that.... and bernie was slumped down on the seat a bit....
NOW MIND YOU........ he had no lightst on in the car..it was totally dead.
bernie got out of the car and told the man that he'd broken down but that the man could NOT help him as he needed a rotor for this chevy that was pretty old.
the man said....'is that all, no problem' went around back to his car..... opened the trunk reached in and found the EXACT ROTOR with no fumbling or looking at part numbers on the box..................... and handed it to bernie
bernie said to the man, ' I have three dollars in my pocket...it's yours and if you give me a name and address I will send you more money to pay for the part'
the man said to my bernie...... 'don't worry about it...... just help the next guy on the road'
bernie went to install the part and stopped midway.... looking to see why the man hadn't left or if the man needed him......
the man and the car wasn't there....
the car hadn't ever started up
hadn't ever pulled around him.....
THERE ARE NO EXITS THERE
it is a sheer drop off a cliff there
and the road goes on forever...you can literally see for miles...... no head lights or tail lights.. either way......
bernie got chills
he'd only been under the hood a few seconds!
he went back and finished putting in that rotor and came home
he got in at 3am
I was frantic......
he was amazed
he told me what happened..... totally puzzled....
and I realized
he met his angel.......
I bless that angel all the time and know that my bernie is safe out there BECAUSE that angel watches over him
Bernie always stops for folks on the road.....going way out of his way most often to help
he has picked up folks walking in the cold and taken them to a diner to call their families and bought them coffee
he has taken gramma's and their grandchildren home and then went back to help with their car
he has always done this.......
so see we firmly believe in angels around here.
That's a great story, Vi! I got towed by that same angel once, I think, out in rural Arizona at 3 in the morning. We weren't visible from the freeway, he claimed to be on the way to Colorado but there was no reason for him to have gotten off there. He took us three miles down the road to a gas station and hung around until we phoned DH's parents for a ride, then disappeared. Neither he nor his sleeping wife or infant son used the bathroom, phone, got gas, or went into the store...and once we had help on the way, he drove off.
ReplyDeleteI betcha Bernie's angel had a tow rope in the back, too...
there's a corny, cheesy country song that makes me cry every time i hear it by alabama, called "angels among us." the beginning talks about how as a little boy, he'd gotten himself lost in the woods on a winter evening, and an old man found him, and showed him the way home, but when he got there, his mother couldn't see him. and then it goes on with "i believe there are angels among us, sent down to us from somewhere up above. they come to you and me, in our darkest hour, to show us how to live, to teach us how to give, to guide us with the light of love." the cheesy part is when the children's chorus starts singing along.
ReplyDeleteas for me, i think i'm marrying my angel. i had given up all hope, when mark and i started going out, and with his love and support, i was able to turn it all the way around, and have my boys home. and i couldn't find a more perfect dad for my boys. any other man would have walked away long before now. not my mark.
ok, now i need a kleenex (honk).
what a great story. I have never seen my angel, but twice in my life I've been driving on the highway and lost control of my car...spinning 360 degrees around at least twice and crossing lanes, and neither time was I hit. And one of the times was on an urban highway at high noon.
ReplyDeletebless our angels.
you know.. all I can say is .. wow.
ReplyDeleteDenise
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