~Angels Among Us~ by ORP...

Hi, Ladies!

Do you believe in Angels?

I wanted to share a couple of stories that happened to our family this Christmas!

Actually, I call them "The Christmas Angels"!

My first story begins about mid-December!  This year for Christmas my sweet hubby bought

me a new anniversary ring!  (After 30, almost 31 years, my original wedding ring set

is in pretty sad shape!)  Anyways, on December 23rd, I stopped in Fred Meyers

to do a little shopping for Christmas and decided to see if my new ring was

in!  It was sent off to be resized!  It just so happened that it had just arrived!  The clerk

handed me my new ring!  I took the little pink sapphire ring that my hubby had bought me

for our 25th wedding anniversary and slid it on to my pinky finger of my right hand!  Big mistake 

because it was way too big for my pinky finger!  I had intentions of putting the ring in a safe place once I left the counter!  It wasn't until my drive home that I discovered that I didn't have my little pink sapphire ring!  Over Christmas weekend I was telling my sister about losing my ring and she said, to call the store that maybe someone had turned the ring in!  She reminded me that there are "honest" people in this world!  Me, thinking that no one would have turned my ring in, waited four days to call the store!  Low and behold, once I described the ring, the lady in customer service said, "I have your ring, someone turned it in"!  I wanted to cry! 

My other "Christmas Angel" story took place on Christmas Eve Day!  My step mom had ran to Walmart for a few last minute things!  She said that she had been standing in this really long line!  She was in the middle of getting her items checked out when she heard someone say, "Ma'am"!  She said that she looked back towards the long line and that no one was talking to her!  When all of a sudden, she heard someone say, "Ma'am" again, only this time she looked towards the front of the store and there stood a man in his late thirties, with a red envelope!  He handed her the envelope, said "Merry Christmas" and quietly walked away!  She said she looked down at the envelope and it said, "Pay it Forward"!  She opened the envelope and inside was a Christmas card with $100.00 cash!  She asked the clerk if she had seen the man that had just handed her that envelope and the clerk said that she hadn't see any man standing there!  My step mom finished paying and walked through the store trying to find the man so that she could thank him for his great generosity!  She never could find the man!  She went home and told my Father and he told her, "I think you have an Angel"!  My step mom and Father are both retired and living on a fixed income and with my Father's terminal cancer there have been a lot of extra expenses, so this money couldn't have come at a better time!

Have you heard the story of Ben Breedlove?  Ben was an 18 year old Texas teenager
who battled a life long heart condition called, "hypertrophic cardiomyopathy"!  You can click HERE to read his story and  HERE to watch Part 1 & 2 of his silent flash card videos!  I will warn you, grab your Kleenexes!  Ben was taken home on Christmas Day, just a few days after he made these videos!  Anyways, towards the end of his video he holds a flash card that says,
Do you believe in Angels or God? I Do.

So, my question to all of you is "Do you believe in Angels" or "God"?  Do you have a special "Angel" story?
I Do!!!