Study Angels
Do you have confidence in Angels? If you ever ask me privately, my answer could be Yes.
In my previous post I pointed out about a lesson I learned from a magazine called Signs of the Times. The highlight of the magazine this month is around Angels. After my read, I was intrigue because of the introduction story of a lady named Clara Barton, founder of the American Red Cross who regard herself to be a deist.
While supervising a relief effort for one terrible spring flood on the Mississippi River on the deck on the riverboat Mattie Bell, she encountered a stranger prior to leaving from the river that was jammed with debris and submerged dangers. This unknown person was insisting on boarding the Mattie Bell. Clara had no time for sightseers and denied the permission. But by the moment she’d sent that order, the ship had pulled away with the surplus passenger on board.
Sorry but I need to stop the tale here. Will be continued in Read on Angels #2. Have to get the top weight loss supplements to a friend. It’s an exercise machine.
Okay, so the stranger was shortly forgotten, for they were sailing via a tragic scene. The water was thick with the puffed up bodies of livestock, men, women, and children, all floating toward the Gulf of Mexico. Near to sundown, Clara found the stranger. Darkness fell and the boat was enveloped in a deep fog that left them navigating the debris-filled river blind. Clara was terrified and in spite of herself, started to pray.
The stranger’s voice interrupted her. “Within moments the steamboat is going to be in a deadly crevasse,” he said. “The captain will not pay attention to me. You ought to command him to pull back right now!” There was something concerning stranger’s tone that impressed Clara and she issued the order without delay. The captain anchored on the opposite side of the river.
At dawn, every person saw the death they had narrowly fled from. How had the stranger known? Clara asked her staff to find him so they could thank him but “he” is nowhere to be found. Until she died, Clara Barton supposed that an angel had preserved the Mattie Bell.
In spite of of the big article, I loved the way the story illustrates unseen guardian angels inside our lives. Okay, need to go with a buddy to find prenatal vitamins. So happy for her despite how long we haven’t had the time to meet.
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