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TRAVERSE CITY, MI (December 23, 2004)\u00a0 – Editor’s note: In preparation for\u00a0 the Christmas observance, Covenant Communications is sharing seven\u00a0 devotionals that originally appeared in local church newsletters and are\u00a0 being published here by permission. The following comes from Cathy\u00a0 Lautner of West Bay Covenant Church.<\/em><\/em><\/p>\n

By Cathy Lautner<\/p>\n
My mom taught me a lot about angels over the years, she just didn’t know\u00a0 that I was paying attention.<\/p>\n
I look back to a December day when I was in grade school – you know, the\u00a0 kind of day where it gets dark before suppertime. The weather had turned\u00a0 foul, with high winds and thick, slushy snow. My mom and sister had just\u00a0 returned from a shopping trip.<\/p>\n
Mom came into the kitchen and put her glasses on the counter. She talked\u00a0 about an anxious moment when she lost control of the car and a\u00a0 semi-truck was heading her way. Then she calmly said, “There must have\u00a0 been a guardian angel on each bumper of the car to get us out of that\u00a0 one.” I envisioned four white angels with wings and long hair lifting\u00a0 her car to safety, and they were beautiful. Then I was on my way.<\/p>\n
Move ahead to the early 1990s. I am no longer in Nebraska, but married\u00a0 and living in Michigan. It was the Christmas season once again, and dad\u00a0 called to say that mom had experienced a mishap, but that she was going\u00a0 to be alright. She had decided to put a Christmas bell on the light in the stairwell to the basement. Alone, she\u00a0 set up a ladder on the steps and leaned it against the wall by the\u00a0 light. She lost her footing and fell essentially two stories to the\u00a0 cement floor below and hit her head. Long story short, she took an\u00a0 ambulance ride to Lincoln, was stitched up, and returned home. On the\u00a0 phone that evening, she just laughed and said that her guardian angels\u00a0 were working overtime for her.<\/p>\n
Now it is December 1996. Dad called to say he had some news about mom\u00a0 and it was serious. She had been slowing down for a few months without\u00a0 any real diagnosis of the problem, but that morning a neighbor called\u00a0 dad at his gas station to say that the house lights weren’t on and she was worried. Upon returning home, dad found\u00a0 mom unconscious in bed. The diagnosis was a serious viral infection in\u00a0 her lungs. One thing happened after another and mom fell into a coma and\u00a0 my two sisters and I were called home.<\/p>\n
When I initially saw her in intensive care, there was a sense of shock,\u00a0 but I also knew that I had to do the angel thing on my own this time and\u00a0 I envisioned her beloved angels surrounding her. Problem was, I didn’t\u00a0 know if they were there to take her or heal her. But there was a sense\u00a0 of peace about it.<\/p>\n
Dad was eventually asked to decide if heroic measures should be taken\u00a0 should an emergency arise and my vote was “No.” I told him that we just\u00a0 couldn’t be selfish and deny her angels if they were there to take her\u00a0 home. He tearfully agreed. But mom conquered this battle and returned\u00a0 home three months after it began.<\/p>\n
When the time was right, I called and asked her what it was like when\u00a0 she was in a coma. She was reluctant to tell me, but did say that she\u00a0 often heard bells ringing in the distance. As for me, I just smiled . .\u00a0 . and knew it was the bells of the angels.<\/div>\n
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