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Date Posted: 13:07:41 08/04/07 Sat
Author: Catie
Author Host/IP: h166.243.213.151.ip.alltel.net / 151.213.243.166
Subject: It was a dark and storm night
In reply to: Barb 's message, "Can you share your encounter, Catie....or is it too personal?" on 08:09:52 08/03/07 Fri

lol...No joke. It really was.

I was 19 years old and home for a week from college. I had been at a youth service at our church and left with my aunt and my cousin, aged 15 at the time. The sky grew dark because of the hour, but just as we were leaving service a storm blew in and it became very dark. The storm grew worse as we drove toward home. The trip to their house was about a 20 minute drive, requiring travel north on interstate 75. We exited onto the ramp to get on the interstate. (Just before merging onto traffic there was a very small section of shoulder, then a bridge, which meant no place to go after merging, except directly into flowing traffic) It was so dark, the rain was torrential and sounded horrific from inside the car. My aunt was driving and about to merge into traffic when we heard a odd sound, then a *Boom* The tire blew out. She just barely managed to steer the car to that little section of shoulder. We were in a very dangerous spot. The bridge lay just ahead of us. The sounds of the cars zooming by at 70 mph, and the lights of all the traffic made the situation even more disturbing. Our car actually swayed as cars passed us. This was before cell phones. There we were, three females, stuck late at night in the storm on the side of the interstate. We knew a tire probably had blown out and what could we do? My aunts car was fairly new but her flashers didn't work that night!! Scared is what we were. She said, let's pray. Her prayer was simple but sincere, I will never forget it...she said "Lord, we are in your hands, give your angels charge of us to protect us tonight and send help in your own divine way." -- It was so simple.

She had just finished saying that prayer- when as we all were saying "amen" there was a knock at my window. There stood a very tall man, with an umbrella, dressed neatly, asking if he could help. (My side was away from the traffic) I was very cautious. I rolled the window only partly down. I asked if he would go to the next exit and call my uncle to come and get us. He smiled and said he would do that but if we would trust him he would help us. Would my aunt give him the keys to check for a spare tire? She took the keys from the ignition, handed them to me and I to him. He said for us to sit tight and stay dry , he would take care of it for us. He went behind the car. We in the car looked at each other. We said "Thank God, he heard our prayer". We sat there a minute and suddenly it stopped raining. We all got out, because it was safer on the grass than sitting so close to traffic. By the time we reached the back of the car he was putting athe last lug nut on the tire. No kidding! We told him we had just prayed for God to send help and he were sure glad he did. He smiled, replied and said rather sweetly, " Yes, I know" I remember his kind smile. I remember he was tall too. I mostly recall how calm we felt while he was there. He told us all was fixed, then he walked us to the car, placed us inside, told us we would be fine. My aunt offered to pay him. He replied somethng like "No need for that, good deeds have their own reward" Honestly I don't remember word for word, although it was something to that effect. My aunt or cousin can't recall the exact words now either. We were in awe of the situation because all of this happened so fast. We buckled up, waited for his car to merge ahead of us before pulling out. We looked in the rear but didn't see him or his car. He simply disappeared. We had such a calm and peace, the three of us. We looked at each other and my cousin asked, "Where did he go?" My aunt laughed and said I think we know where he went. We all agreed he was an angel. You will never convince me otherwise. We got home safe and sound that night. I opened my bible to the scripture: Hebrews 13:2: Be not forgetful to entertain strangers; for thereby some have entertained angels unaware.

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[> [> [> [> I believe, Catie..........I truly do................... -- Barb, 11:27:00 08/05/07 Sun [1] (clgrtnt7-port-140.dial.telus.net/161.184.52.140)

Your story is a beautiful one. There is simply no other answer...:-)

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[> [> [> [> I believe too, Catie............... -- Neysa, 12:37:52 08/05/07 Sun [1] (user-38lcifu.dialup.mindspring.com/209.86.73.254)

Thank you so much for sharing your beautiful story.

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