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Thank you for leading us in the St Michael prayer for the troops, Smocker. It is appropriate, for it is my understanding he has been adopted as the guardian angel for paratroopers and soldiers...(as well as law enforcement!)

My sister tells me that she was visiting the 82nd Airborne museum at Ft Bragg once with her kids and they saw a beautiful statue of Archangel Michael displayed there.

I have had an experience with Archangel Michael that I would like to tell. I have had a habit myself over the years of calling upon St Michael to protect me whenever I get in a car. One shiny Sunday afternoon quite a number of years ago, I met a friend and we decided to go out to eat at a restaurant across town and we got into her car and started out. We never made it.

On our way, I had that niggle that something needed to be paid attention to, but I just couldnt focus on it. Finally it struck me: I heard a train whistle. I interrupted my friend and said, "I hear a train!" She put on the breaks. Sure enough, there it was. It was coming from behind some industrial buildings alongside the track.

I truly did not think at the time that we were on the tracks, but because it was a near thing, I considered it prudent to call upon Archangel Michael. I shouted, "MICHAEL!!"

No one was more surprised than I was to all of a sudden feel the blow of that train engine against the car. I have no visual images, because I'm certain my eyes were glued shut, but I remember being shaken and thrown around. I heard the engine roar. I was thinking, well, this is it, I'm going Home. The only regret I had was that I couldnt say goodbye to my loved ones. I felt NO pain at any of the blows my body took. (That came later!) After things became peaceful again, I opened my eyes and grabbed my friend. She turned and looked at me and said, "Why I had a dream about this!"

She was never able to elaborate on this statement for shortly after that she went into shock and no longer recalls events surrounding the accident.

The car was, as you can imagine, totaled. Neither of us (for shame!) was wearing seat belts. We had been struck just six inches from the passenger compartment right at the left front tire. We bounced off the front of the train. The car spun and the rear end of the car struck the train again. We bounced off that and the front end of the car landed in the light pole. Any of those impacts could have killed us we were told later. We took out the diesel tank on the second engine of the train. My friend's car seat was broken. I was prevented from going through the windshield because my brow hit and broke off the rear view mirror. We both had bruises as big as Dallas and soft tissue injuries, but no broken bones. It was a true miracle that we both walked away from it.

When God sends his angels to protect us, they definitely get the job done!