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Our new president ran on a message of hope and faith - all be it perhaps different than a religious faith or hope.

Regardless, this story generates feelings of hope and faith. God sends his angels to help all the time. Most people are too caught up in life to notice.

I was born in that hospital 58 years ago. The doctors wanted me to be born in a larger hospital due to the fact that I was expected to have complications from the Rh factor. I did, but they were able to do an exchange transfusion. I not only survived, but got along much better than my three older siblings. Two of them were boys, one of which was born dead (most likely due to a 36-hour labor rather than the Rh factor) and the other only lived three days.

I have an angel story as well. The husband of a good friend of mine tragically drowned in a boating accident leaving three young sons behind. The youngest son was so devastated that Debbie was at a loss what to do to console him. She is a devout Christian and spent many nights holding Matt in her arms as he cried himself to sleep and as she prayed for strength and guidance. At the same time, she was struggling to run her husband's very successful real estate business and was wondering if the decisions she was making were the right ones. She, of course, had not told the boys any of her concerns about the business.

One morning, Matt woke up in an obviously different frame of mind. He told his mother that he had talked to his Dad the night before. Debbie tried to tell him that he must have been dreaming, but he insisted that his father had come, sat on his bed, and talked to him. Matt said that his Dad had told him that everything was going to be alright and that he had a message for Debbie. He wanted Matt to tell his mother that the decisions that she was making about the business were good. Since Matt did not know that she was worried about the business, Debbie believes to this day that it was Rick, an angel, or both that came to visit Matt that night and I do, too!