Angels

I know I have not posted in awhile, been busy with life.    I have been wanting to get a story down for some time though.  A lot of people like to believe they have guardian angels and I am not one that wants to tempt my own fate in not believing!  In fact, I have had many close calls in my life that made me reflect on the fact that I probably do have an angel.  One winter's night about 8 years ago I was commuting home from New York on the Metro-north train.  Like many riders, I have a preferred car, and when it's crowded, you tend to pick the first available seat outbound on the train.  I like to sit in the last car of the train, and on this particular night I was several cars up front and as we neared my stop I started to make my way through the train to the last car.  Along the way I usually will 'scavenge' newspapers or magazines left by other riders for a quick read so I am quite aware of what is sitting on each seat as I pass by.  This night the pickings were slim so I found an empty seat in the last car with no magazines on it unfortunately.  So I sat down and looked out the window and reflected on how lucky I had been in my life.  I thought to myself jokingly that I must have a guardian angel.  As my stop approached, I got up out of my seat to leave the train - and on the seat next to me was a booklet.  I picked the booklet up out of curiosity - and on the cover was a beautiful angel wings and all.  Inside the booklet it talked about how we all have guardian angels in our life....

My blood ran cold, I threw the booklet back onto the seat and hopped off of the train somewhat shaken...  I knew for a fact the booklet was *not* on the seat next to me when I sat down.  That's when I knew for sure that I had one!

Aside from not killing myself the night I injured my foot, over the years especially as a young man I threw caution to the wind more than once and lived to tell about - thanks to my guardian angels...  a story for another day.