Reply #19: thank you [View All]

[Dora]

This brings such tears to my eyes.

Your fall into the angels arms and landing in the tree is familiar to me. I had a similar angel experience when I was 13 going on 14, in 1983. I was riding in the back of a Jeep Cherokee with my school friend. Her family had invited me along on a group vehicle excursion through the Sierra Ancha wilderness (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sierra_Ancha) outside Globe, AZ. On the second day of our journey, my friend and I were dozing in the back of the car with the ice chests and sleeping bags. I woke up to a horrible slipping feeling, and then was awash in a crystalline clarity - that this was the moment before my death. The car had slipped off the shoulder of the dirt road and was sliding down the mountainside, and then it began to roll, and bouncing slowly rolled over three times. Throughout the tumbling, I felt calm and slightly excited in a "my turn!" kind of way. Then I felt a wave of sadness thinking of my family, and I knew that they would be all right.

Against huge odds, the car stopped rolling when it came up against a lone - very lone - tree that was rooted next to a stone outcropping. We landed roof up, almost as if we had parallel parked there on the very steep and hardscrabble slope. There was an enormous silence where all time stood still and I knew I would always be safe. Then I could hear the shouts of the other people who were on the excursion, and within a few minutes we had all been pulled out of the car with no broken bones and no life-threatening injuries. It took hours to get assistance - someone had to drive out of the wilderness to a phone. My friends mother and I were air-evac'ed back to Phoenix (her scalp was severely lacerated, and I had pain in my neck and back), but I was sent home from the hospital that evening with one suture in the back of my hand for a small cut.

There have been other times in the course of my life when I have found myself in a place of enormous risk and/or danger - and I found myself protected by surprising circumstances. When I take time to think on it, I am overwhelmed at the awe that is my life and my chest feels as though it's expanding beyond its limits. I am moved now to meditate today and thank my angels. I never have before. Thank you for sharing your experience.