Saved By Angels

From: VERHAGUE@fredonia.edu
Story type: Ghost
Location: Unknown
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I have two sons, and as babies, one was spared injury through angelic intervention and the other encountered a near death experience. This is the angel story.

In 1985, my husband was on active duty with the U.S. Air Force and was stationed at a base in Illinois. We were recently transferred to this base and had not yet made many friends. About two weeks before Easter, my husband was informed that he would have to leave on Easter Sunday for a temporary duty assignment and would be gone for three months.

On Easter, I drove him to the airport with our son, Nick, who was just 14 months old. After we returned home from the airport, I felt very depressed and alone. Our families lived in New York and I had no friends to spend the rest of the day with.

I took Nick outside and put him in a baby swing that my husband had hung on the back porch of our apartment. The porch had a cement floor with a wide cement sidewalk running alongside it. As Nick was gently swinging, I sat down in a chair a few feet away.

Suddenly, Nick pulled up the safety bar on the swing and stood up. Before I could move to try to catch him, he went flying up into the air and out of the swing. At this point, everything seemed to move in slow motion. His head was going straight for the cement walkway and I couldn't move fast enough to stop his fall.

As if an invisible being was standing there to catch him, Nick's entire body was turned in mid-air toward a very narrow patch of grass that ran between the cement floor and the walkway. His falle seemed to slow as his head was literally steered to the patch of grass. He seemed to land softly as his head went into the grass and his diaper padded butt his the cement.

He was startled but completely uninjured. I could not find a bump or mark on his head or anywhere else on his body.

I realized then that we weren't alone and that I shouldn't have been feeling so depressed. We were loved and a warm feeling of love seemed to run through me.

Gale VerHague - e-mail address: verhague@fredonia.edu button
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