Do you think you have ever encountered an angel?

[loriangel14]

This happened to me years ago while I was in school. I have never told anyone.

I was a single mom with two little girls. I was working seven days a week and going to nursing school at night.Money was VERY tight.By the time I paid the mortgage, bills, tuition and put gas in the car there was not very much money left over for things like food. I had family that would have helped but I only asked when I was desperate.One of my two jobs was doing homecare in the community.One day as I was driving to a client's house I was going over in my mind what groceries I needed to buy and was wondering if I had any money left in my account to actually buy anything.I needed something to feed the kids for breakfast the next morning and something to send in their lunches.Some tea would have been nice too.I said a silent prayer that there was some money left in the bank for some food.At the end of the day when I was at my last client the agency phones and asked me if I could squeeze in one more client before I went home.I was really tired but the address was close by and I could use the extra hour of pay.

I went the address I was given. It was an apartment building I had been to many times but I had never seen this man before.He was a pleasant little Italian man that was very glad to see someone.At the end of the visit I was changing into my outdoor shoes when the man thrust a plastic bag at me, explaining that his sister bought his groceries for him and she had bought him things he didn't want. He said perhaps I could use them.I accepted the bag and rushed out to my car, to embarrased to open it in front of him. I opened the bag and I couldn't believe my eyes. In side was a loaf of bread,some lunch meat, a box of cereal,a package of cookies..... and a box of tea.Exactly the things I had said the silent prayer for.I could hardly see to drive home because of the tears in my eyes.

Today I helped my girls move into an apartment together.One has finished college and one starts a nursing program in January.Those hard times seem so long ago but I still try to not forget all the help I received along the way.

[Been there,done that, ASN, RN]

Many angels around us... many of us nurses have our own starter wings.

I felt my guardian angel on an expressway ramp.. saved me from certain death.

All we need to do is feel them, appreciate them, and share the experience.

Thanks for sharing your experience.

[loriangel14, RN]

Yes everyone has their own opinuion. maybe it was just a coincidence and I was just lucky. :)

Another time I was driving late at night with my 2 small girls sleeping in the backseat. I saw a car parked on the side of the road with it's headlights on. I slowed down some but i was still going highway speed.Then I saw it.A large buck on the highway right in front of me.I thought "We are dead". Some how all of a sudden I was past the deer safely.I don't know how it happened but I was forever grateful.Some things just can't be explained.

[jadelpn, LPN, EMT-B]

Some people believe that a human soul in its essence is an energy. And that energy doesn't die, it just gets re-directed. I would rather be an angel than someone's cell phone signal.

Sometimes we all get a "sense" that something is not right, that someone needs assistance, those "can't put my finger on it but I am compelled to help" moments.

We can look at random acts of kindness as soul's energy working through. Angel can be both a noun and a verb...

[systoly]

I'm married to one.

[imintrouble, BSN, RN]

No, I've never seen an angel. But I believe they exist. Just as I believe in God. I've never seen him either.

The alternative is, this is all there is and then we die.

I much prefer the idea of angels.

[Palliative Care, DNP]

No but if I do I would like them to look like Castiel from the show Supernatural. That's my type of angel

[skylark, BSN, RN]

Years ago, I was heading home with my son, aged around seven.

We didn't have a car, i was a single mom, and so we had a trailer bike, the sort that attaches to an adult bike. (Wonderful invention, it got us to school and work every day, and its only drawback was that it was impossible to reverse!)

This was a winter evening, maybe around 7pm, as we had stopped for dinner at a friend's house on the way home.

I was walking on the sidewalk and pushing the bike, as we did not have lights with us.

We reached a major street and I pushed the button for the crossing.

I recall glancing back, my son was sat on the trailer bike, almost asleep and leaning over the handlebars, and there was nobody else around.

When the light changed, i started to cross.

I hadn't heard or seen the speeding car running the red light.

It cam from nowhere, from behind a truck , that was idling at the lights, I never heard it over the truck engine.

By the time i did see it, we were halfway across the road, and the car was heading straight for us.

i remember thinking, 'This is where it ends'.

And then all of a sudden, someone was behind us, I just recall a vague image of a man, he touched the bike beside me and it somehow slid backwards, back onto the sidewalk. I remember thinking "How the heck did you just do that, these things don't reverse?"

I heard his voice say "Its not your time yet.", and I looked back straight away to thank him, but there was nobody there.

My son, who had been almost asleep, looked up at me, and said "Who was that man?"

But there was nobody there. The sidewalk was empty for as far as I could see.

I KNOW that there is no way I could have moved that bike backwards, even without my son sitting there.

But with a seven year old sat on it? Not a chance.

And half an hour later, when I called a friend from my church, she straight away asked me what had happened earlier this evening, she said she had been prompted to pray urgently for me.

When I told her, she said the exact same words as the 'man' who had pulled us to safety, "Its not your time yet."

[Mysteriousdarkness]

ive had weird things happen. this one time i was driving home at night, had my headlights on and was doing the speed limit. i started to slow to enter a roundabout. i looked right and left (in australia, the cars would come from our right). i didnt see anything and yet something told me to stop. to this day it makes no sense- all looked and seemed well and the road looked clear, but i stopped anyway because i just felt like i should. a split second later a black car with very dim headlights sped through from my right at a blinding speed. if i hadn't stopped i would have been killed. i hadn't seen him because he was coming so fast around a corner and in a dark car...

my mum was in the car that day too and we are both atheists with no real belief in anything and yet we both swear something saved us that night

[skylark, BSN, RN]

I'm not sure how you can stay atheist after that!

You got a second chance at life that night, so make the most of it : )