Miracles All Around
“I had to share something with you,” Willow Hale, a subscriber to our newsletter, wrote to me. “Wednesday night, February 2nd, I was in a car accident, my first in 14 years. As I drove down the street someone made a left turn into me right into the driver’s side. Even the mechanic today said it was a miracle that I was completely unhurt (my car is not drivable at present).” The instant Willow knew that she would be hit, she relaxed into it and felt an incredible softness, like feathers, on her left side. “It was almost like a soft blanket all along the left side of my car and me,” she says. “Yes, the car was damaged; but I was not injured at all. The other lady’s car was barely scratched and she was not injured either.”
How many times we all have either missed accidents or survived what might have been a tragic crash through the unseen help of our angels!
Sometimes there are “hints,” such as the feathery feeling that Willow mentioned, but at other times, it’s just a matter of faith. Willow believes, but this is not the first angelic encounter she has had.
From an early age, Willow loved to attend church and pray. Her awareness of angels began when she was six years old, in Gulfport, Mississippi. She had a boomerang, and while playing in her grandmother’s front yard, she would throw it up in the air, and watch it return to her. It was a fun and fascinating toy, but one morning, as the family prepared to move to Washington State, Willow threw the boomerang into the air—and it didn’t return. “I searched and searched for it—in the bushes between my house and the house next door, in the yards—but I never found it.” Eventually Willow forgot about the toy.
Then, when she was eleven, the family moved back to her grandmother’s house. One day Willow was standing in the front yard and boom! “Out of the blue came the boomerang!” Willow says. “It landed on the ground right in front of my feet. I looked and looked for who might have thrown it, but there was no one anywhere around. I pledged to follow my angel from that time forth.”
Willow grew up to be a professional singer and actress. She encountered personal problems, including a health situation where she sometimes suffers small temporary strokes, but never lost her devotion to the angels. Two years ago, she was hired to work a home show at the LA Convention Center. At the same time, auditions were being held for Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night production, and Willow wished she had time to try out for a part in that.
Instead, that morning she suffered a small stroke, and had to leave her booth to stay in her car and rest. “People working around the booth watched my things,” she says, “and of course I gave up all thoughts of trying to get to the audition—I just let it go in prayer.” Gradually, she recovered, and was able to finish out the day at the convention center.
About a month later, Willow received an email inviting her to a party to read for a Shakespeare play. Willow assumed it was another production from another company, not Twelfth Night. But when she arrived, the director smiled in recognition and greeted her by name. “When we sat and read and introduced ourselves,” Willow says, “it was clear that I had been at the audition—everyone had seen me—and I had done a good enough job to be asked to be part of the company!” When Willow mentioned that she had been ill and not able to make it that day, everyone looked at her as if she was confused. “The director had my resume and photo too,” Willow says. “How could that have happened?”
Did Willow’s guardian angel assume her own appearance, go in her place to an audition, even read Shakespeare well enough for Willow to get a part?
Such a thing seems utterly impossible—until we look at an encounter the Apostle Peter had with an angel after Christ’s death and resurrection. Peter had been arrested, but an angel came one evening, undid his chains and led him out of the prison. When Peter entered the house where Christ’s supporters were staying, more than one assumed the newcomer was Peter’s ANGEL, not Peter himself. In early days, it was often thought that one’s angel resembled the person—which means that it probably sometimes happened. Why wouldn’t it be happening today?
There is much mystery attached to these beautiful beings. But we have only to ask God to send them to us, and He will. Willow knows that, and so do you.
(C) 2004 Joan Wester Anderson www.joanwanderson.com
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