God send an Angel at 17

The Lord has revealed himself to me in many ways. But he has seen fit to send me Angels twice that I know about. While I'm sure there are countless times that he has helped me with his warriors I can say I have actually seen them twice in my life. This story is about the second time.

I think I was Seventeen years old. If not I was very close to being that age. My father was the assistant pastor at a church in South Phoenix. It was a very small church in a very bad neighborhood but that is where my father felt called. Our pastor had two children still at home. A girl two years younger than me and a son that was a couple of years older. I'm not sure how old he was. Lets call him Dave for the sake of the story. Dave was not a Christian. He rebelled against his father in every way. He was into drugs and alcohol and "partying". I have no idea if his parents really knew any of this.

One day Dave ask me to go to his company picnic. He said that it was in Mesa somewhere and he would pick me up at around 11 AM. I know Dave liked to get stoned and told him that I would go if he showed up clean. Well Dave showed up at 11 stoned. I could tell but my parents didn't seem to notice so went ahead and went with him because I didn't want to cause a scene. Big mistake on my part.

On our way to Mesa I can't really tell you which way we went I wasn't paying attention. We seem to drive through a stretch of road that was in the middle of no where. This was 1982 trust me when I tell you Phoenix has grown a lot since then. All of a sudden Dave's car stalled and sure enough Dave announced we were out of Gas in the middle of no where on a very hot summers day. Needless to say I was a tad freaked out. Here I was in the middle of God knows where with a stoned preachers kid. Not my idea of a good time and to make matters worse Dave didn't have any money.

I did the only thing I knew how and I started praying. Dave was trying to figure out which way to start walking in order for us to find a pay phone. The next thing I knew out of literally no where a small car appeared. The man driving had a very kind smile and he said hey I think you need these and handed to full gas cans out the window to me. I turned and handed them to Dave and excitedly turned around to thank him and he was gone. Him and his car vanished into thin air. I looked up and down both ways of the street and there was not a car in site. If you ever want to know what will sober up a stoned guy... have God send a Angel. Dave was dumb struck. We immediately started looking for something to use as a funnel to get the gas in the car and found a wine bottle broken just perfectly. It did the trick and I was praising God the whole way home.

We did not make it to the picnic that day. I made Dave drive me straight home. We talked about what had happened on the road that day and we both knew that God helped us.

Dave turned his life around. He now works to get young boys off drugs with Teen Challenge. His father still pastors that church in south phoenix accept they bought some land and moved farther south.

I'm not sure why God has let me see his angels twice in my life. I hope it's because he knew I would share those experiences with as many as possible.

Now I have shared them with you. I hope by hearing them you at least have come to think about how much God cares about you so much that he thinks about us in the little things.

I'm sure he has sent his protectors to you at some time in your life.

Think about it.

Blessings,
Sherry