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January 2007 - Page 18
Saved by a Christmas Angel
by Toni
This is about a really strange but really wonderful incident that I think proves that there are angels, especially guardian angels.
It was December, 1979. My then husband, our one-year-old daughter and I were all in our old Rambler driving back from a party at my husband's uncle's house in Fall City, Washington, to our home at SeaTac, where my husband and I were live-in managers of a 24-hour airport parking and car rental agency. My husband was 25, I was 23 and I was 7 months pregnant with our son, who was born exactly two months later.
It was snowy, the roads were icy and dark, and this was before kids had to be strapped into a car seat, so our daughter was sitting on what there was of my lap, sleeping. Suddenly, the front axle broke away from the universal joint and our right front wheel and most of the assembly went into a ditch on the right side of the road, followed closely by the rest of the car. I was pinned against the door, but all of us were miraculously unhurt.
There were no phones, no houses and no businesses around anywhere, and our only hope for help was that someone would drive by on this deserted road at nearly 11:30 p.m. on Christmas Eve. The temperature was below freezing and we only had our coats with us, no emergency blankets or food. We turned on the emergency flashers and settled in to wait.
Not more than 10 minutes later, a clean-cut young man stopped his car and asked if we needed a lift. We said we would really appreciate it if he could give my husband a ride to the nearest phone to call for a tow, or if he would call a tow truck for us. Instead, he insisted he could take us home if we just let him know where we needed to go. We said it was really too far, as we lived next to SeaTac airport. This really charming, handsome, well-dressed young man said that this would be no problem, as he was on his way to SeaTac to pick up his parents who were flying in that night!
Now this was really getting weird, as our house was literally five minutes drive from the airport! He had a blanket in the back, and insisted that our daughter and I wrap up in the back. He drove us right to our door and refused to accept any money or our thanks, and it wasn't until the next morning that we realized we hadn't even gotten this guy's name, and he had never told us anything else about himself. Since we had become stranded on a deserted country road that was not well used, this was all way too coincidental to be true.
I know I believe in a force that watches over us, no matter what you might call it, and this was only one of the times it was proved to me.
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