Story of the Week: 6/29/07

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November 27, 2008

Hello, friends. Lots of announcements today, so we’ll get right to them:

Hope you can see this. As reader Walt Sar said when he sent it, “Don’t tell us there are no guardian angels!” Truly amazing! http://www.rickystokesnews.com/news/news.php?newsid=3491

As we begin praying that the coming hurricanes (at least 17 predicted) are harmless, here is a prayer that has been said along the Florida Keys for decades—and no major storms or hurricanes higher than Level One have hit the Keys:
Prayer for Protection from Hurricanes
Eternal Father, Creator of all the world and all that is in it, we ask you to spare the Florida Keys (or add your own area) from storms and hurricanes. If any should occur, we ask that they go out to sea where they may do the least amount of harm to anyone. We ask this through Christ our Lord. Amen

Reader Krissy Weisgerber [krissyweisgerber@yahoo.com] was in a poetic mood and penned the following. I’m sure she’d like to hear from you!

BE AN ANGEL TODAY

Don’t worry about the future and all you should do
Just feel like an angel and you’ll make it through.
Imagine your wings extending out,
Softening and reassuring all who doubt.
Imagine your eyes brilliantly sparkle as you gaze,
As instantly people know they’ll see better days.
Be an angel today, you can beautifully shine
and everyone will learn how to recognize the divine.
Reach out your arms, be ready to serve,
because a touch from an angel is what everyone deserves.
Be an angel today, open up your big heart,
so that others may know where love starts.
If you are an angel today, than you will know
that God is the secret that makes angels glow!

And speaking of earth angels, Bob Ryan recently took a large truck full of wonderful household items and clothes down to Thornton, Arkansas, where we help to support the town. He spent the weekend with the Cayce family, and took some really good photos with captions to give us an idea of what is happening there now (they will have a huge give-away in August, and because they now have the gym that we helped to buy for them, they can set things up ahead of time, which is a big help.) Here’s the link: http://www.kodakgallery.com/I.jsp?c=zyqk84e.5rctra06&x=0&y=1ukqhr

Anyone have a Christmas-related angel/miracle/answer-to-prayer story? Please email to me at joan@joanwanderson.com. Just a few lines will do.

And FINALLY, our story:

Donna Gros had recently finished Paramedic School, so she should have known. But—like all of us sometimes—she got careless. “I was attempting to burn garbage in my back yard, and no one else was at home,” she says. “The pile wasn’t really catching on fire, and since I was having a problem keeping it lighted, I did something really stupid that you are never supposed to do. I tossed more gas on the pile.”

We all know what happened! The flames caught, and blew out right towards Donna, just like a very large explosion. In that split second, Donna saw the heat and fire coming towards her…and then, unbelievably, a pure white light came between her and the now-raging fire. “It just instantly appeared,” Donna recalls, “and it looked like a very large semi-sheer curtain, as big as one that would be used in an auditorium. “I felt no heat, just shock and surprise at what had happened to me. I should have had third degree burns to my upper body and face, including my airway, which means that I would have not lived.” Donna suspects she might have been in shock or perhaps a light trance, because she doesn’t remember how long the healing white light was actually there—a few seconds or even five minutes.

But when it was over, Donna was not injured at all. Like a shield, the light had protected her and kept her safe, and the fire was burning naturally. “Now I don’t know why I’m telling you this,” Donna says today. “Maybe the Spirit is asking me to do it. But it always feels good passing on my experiences so others will know that there is truly more to this life that we can see. We need to know that we always have God and his angels by our side to guide us and help when the time comes.”

As a paramedic, Donna relies on the angels all the time. But she has never forgotten when they shielded her with (perhaps?) their very own wings.