Angel Road

Have you ever seen an angel?  According to the Bible in Hebrews 13:2, some have entertained angels without even knowing it.  You may or may not have seen one, but my daughter, Grace, HAS!  This is the story of the"Angel Road."  I was driving on it today when for some reason the idea to share it popped in my head. There are NO added details from this real experience so you can take my words for whatever they're worth to you.  But God showed his power to us that warm & beautiful July evening.

It just happened to be my birthday.  Mark & I had enjoyed the afternoon at home playing with our two little ones, Grace, just turned 2 and Lane, was only 6 months old.  Mark had asked me what I wanted to do for my birthday.  It was getting late, but we felt like going out and for some reason I just really wanted to go to the county fair (kind of a tradition around my birthday & yeah- I'm a bit of a country girl).  After we made the decision to go, we were outside when my cousin had stopped by to say hello, so we chatted a bit.  Once she left, I knew time was getting away from me, so I packed up the entire house (at least it seems that way when you have babies), put it in the car and got the kids ready.  Diapers changed...check, kids in the car...check, diaper bag...check, stroller...check....  husband in the car...NOPE!  I pulled out of the the garage to have absolutely nothing left to stall us except Mark.  When I found him I was surprised to see him talking to one of our neighbors that we had never had a chance to speak with since we had moved in our house (2+ years prior).  And NOW of all the times to get acquainted with one another!?  I was actually very patient, the kids were great, but I was just worried at this point about whether it was too late to go or not.

Mark finally jumped in the car and I was driving since I had pulled out already.  By now it was around eight o'clock.  We still just really felt like going, so we went on.  This is a silly detail, but I remember listening to the same song on the "Wiggles" CD that Grace wanted played over and over.  It was actually a calm, tropical sounding song so we didn't mind (that song brings back that night every time I hear it).  So I had just turned right on a road as we were "jammin" to the Wiggles.  Immediately we saw a child walking on the road.  I slowed down and then stopped the car.  What we saw was a little (and I mean little) girl around three years old walking bare foot on the road.  At the time it didn't hit me, but Grace, who had just turned two years old a month earlier, was behind the passenger seat in the back, sitting low in her car seat.  It would have been really hard for her to see the little girl from how she was seated.  When I had slowed down, we heard her say, "ANGEL MOMMY, ANGEL!"  Now up to this point in her life she didn't know what an angel was,  let alone say that word and we had never heard her say it before.  But at that moment it didn't register with us.

So I quickly pulled to the side of the road and Mark jumped out and picked her up.  He brought her over to me and we were both wondering what was wrong with her eyes (for some reason this also did not click with us in the moment), they just looked different.  We looked all around us for an adult or just ANYONE, but no one was around.  Mark asked her where her mommy was.  She kept saying, "Krysta, Krysta."  Finally (at least it seemed forever), a lady came out from a house and came over to Mark and took the little girl saying (VERY NON-chalantly), "Oh, there you are (with a giggle)."  We told her where we found the precious little girl and she gave the excuse, "Oh, well, this isn't her house and she's blind."  WHOA! STOP RIGHT THERE!  WHAT??? She's BLIND!  Then all the more reason to really watch her, in an unfamiliar area when she doesn't have sight!!!  What was going on here?

The woman, whom the girl recognized and went to (we thought she may have been a step-mom, aunt, friend etc), thanked us and took the little girl inside.  We were dumbfounded and frozen.  We sat in the car in the same spot where I stopped.  What?  That was it?  Why did we feel so uneasy? We called the police to report it just incase.  They did check it out, which eased our minds, but we couldn't stop thinking about it for the rest of the night.

Then we started putting the pieces together...
-Were all the things that happened right before we left just a coincidence (our neighbor & my cousin stopping by)? Why did I just really want to go to the fair even though it was so late?
-We remembered where she was walking on the road.  She was at the top of a hill on the same side that a car could have been cruising up the hill & wouldn't be able to see her until it would be too late and could have easily hit her.
-Then we remembered (finally) the fact that little Grace had just shouted, "Angel, Mommy, Angel!" And we knew she didn't know that word.

We realized that God had orchestrated every detail.  I truly believe that Grace saw one of God's angels protecting a little girl who was barefoot & blind on that road.  I know these kind of stories are hard to believe for some and sometimes I stop and think, "Did that really happen?"  And it did!  Then my faith strengthens.  We will never have proof that Grace actually did see an angel of God.  But I do know that there are angels here to protect us and I know that God worked out those circumstances for us to get that little girl off the road, if anything.

Grace and Lane do not remember that happening, but they do know the story.  Every time we drive on that road they recognize it and ask, "Is this the angel road?"  It is an awesome reminder of who's really in control. 

Hebrews 13:2 "Don't forget to show hospitality to strangers, for some who have done this have entertained angels without realizing it!"


Matthew 18:3-6, & 10-14 "I assure you, unless you turn from your sins and become as little children, you will never get into the Kingdom of Heaven.  Therefore, anyone who becomes as humble as little child is the greatest in the Kingdom of Heaven.  And anyone who welcomes a little child like this on my behalf is welcoming me.  But if anyone causes one of these little ones who trusts in me to lose faith, it would be better for that person to be thrown into the sea with a large millstone tied around the neck."


"Beware that you don't despise a single one of these little ones.  For I tell you that in heaven their angels are always in the presence of my heavenly Father.  If a shepherd has one hundred sheep, and one wanders away and is lost, what will he do?  Won't he leave the ninety-nine others and go out into the hills to search for the lost one?  And if he finds it, he will surely rejoice over it more than over the ninety-nine that didn't wander away!  In the same way, it is not my heavenly Father's will that even one of these little ones should perish."


TO GOD BE THE GLORY!