Posted on 08/08/2013 10:38:56 AM PDT by topher
I shared this story with my Dad last night and he wrote me a beautiful reply relating a story he never told me before:
Most people are not aware of the supernatural world going on around us – the divisions of angels all with a designed mission and purpose. It is all there in the bible if one cares to read about it. I’ll relay an experience I had years ago- it certainly does not compare with that story and although my experience may appear trivial to others it has had a lasting impact on me:
I was in my 1st yr of college and having a rough time. I was seriously thinking of dropping out before I flunked out. I didn’t really want to be there and was disinterested in the coursework – I played hooky half the time but it was school or going off to Vietnam in those days. I had to take a bus and a train to get from home to school and back home and on this day I had just finished my last class and was walking the mile or so to the train station alone to catch the train home. I was about halfway there - walking down what was a paved but deserted road – rarely a car came by, there were houses on the road but spaced well apart. I had been on this road for about a quarter of a mile. The road was lined with tall trees, bushes and shrubs on both sides as a border, beyond which were neatly manicured cleared acreage. As I was walking I looked up and immediately saw a black man – dressed as though he was a gardener approach me carrying only a shovel over his shoulder. I didn’t see him coming and he was pretty much right in front of me when I did notice him. As he walked passed me he looked directly into my eyes – and with a smile merely said ‘Hang in there’. I didn’t say anything back and kept walking but I was immediately overcome with a strong feeling of peace and contentment and this feeling that he knew exactly what I was going through. I had only taken about a half dozen - a dozen steps and I turned around to see him – I don’t know whether I was going to approach him or say anything – I just remember thinking that I needed to see who that ‘special’ person was. No one was there. I walked back to see where he possibly could have gone – searched both sides of the road – there was really no where he could have gone – but he was gone. That was 40 years ago!
I stayed in college and graduated with honors 4 years later. Ever since that day whenever I get discouraged or am disappointed in the way things are going, I just think of the smiling gardener carrying that shovel and the peaceful feeling that overcame me that day and say to myself ‘Hang in there’….
‘Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding; in all your ways acknowledge Him and He will make your paths straight’…..Proverbs 3:5 NIV
I think we are allowed to post titles and links to Gannett Publications, but no excerpts.
see. . .
If it was the Lord Himself, choosing to come in the form of a Catholic priest -— Oh, wow!
Lord, You did it again.
Thank You.
CENTER, MO. -- Rescue workers want to thank a higher power for coming to the rescue early Sunday morning.
http://www.connecttristates.com/news/story.aspx?id=930741
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The video at the article is also posted here. . .
Mysterious priest performs miracle at site of Mercedes crash
[New London Fire Chief Raymond Reed was interviewed later at the scene of the accident by a local news crew]
BTTT! Truly an angel. The way the man appeared and disappeared — it could have even been Jesus Christ!
Just saw the article where they mentioned the collar and that the “angel” was a priest, but other denominations also wear collars: Presbyterians, Lutherans, and Anglicans, etc. (Worked for a Lutheran church years ago and the pastor wore a collar)
Most certainly. :)
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