As I mentioned
yesterday, I read Martha Brockenbrough’s Devine
Intervention over the weekend. It’s a delightful book featuring an unusual guardian angel as one of the
main characters.
And that
got me thinking about those invisible helpers.
When I was
in high school, one of my friends loved to tell the tale of how her dad had
been saved as a toddler. Apparently, he had somehow managed to pitch himself out of a
second story window, but was fortuitously caught by a stranger’s HUGE umbrella… on a
cloudless day in Pittsburgh. My friend and her family remained unconvinced that
the rescuer was a person of the human kind.
And then
there was the time I was taking a long drive east on Interstate 90 in
Wisconsin. It was late afternoon, and I was a sleep-deprived graduate student.
Trust me, that is not a good
combination. I was seriously fighting the doze – chugging the coffee, cranking the music, shaking my head
every 7 minutes or so – but nothing was helping. If only I could just close my….
That’s when
I saw it. Just up ahead, in all caps at least three feet high, scrawled across
the overpass – “I LOVE BARB DAVIS,
DUDE!!”
My mouth
gaped as I rolled along beneath it, then I completely busted a gut.
And for the
rest of that 4-hour drive, I was absolutely, completely, altogether AWAKE.
Of course,
the whole thing could have been a doze-induced dream, or some strange and
statistically unlikely coincidence, but there is one thing I am absolutely sure
of…
If I do
have a guardian angel, that is EXACTLY the way he speaks.
Carry on,
Dudes!
Have a heavenly day!
PROMPT: Have you ever had a strange “woo
woo” rescue moment? Remember, it’s all material. Also, exactly what kind of
angel keeps watch over you? Give Alanis Morissette’s Guardian a listen for a little inspiration. Rock out
and write on!
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