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Serate
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08-21-2001

Friday, April 23, 2004 - 5:30 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
She's still with us Abby but the past year's been awfully rough. She didnt' get to come see the tulips, but we took pictures and even took Eddie to visit her. The car ride terrified him but he just sat in her lap and purred the whole time we were there.

Twiggyish
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08-14-2000

Friday, April 23, 2004 - 5:30 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Gal, my hubby and I do that, too. We have always been able to "read" each other. I think it shows a special bond.

We've had a lot of interesting things happen since my dad died. One is so eerie I can't write about it. (It involves a disconnected phone ringing)

However, here's another one that happened last year. We vacationed in Disney last year. My daughter decided she wanted to do the penny presses, which they have throughout the park. After a while, we ran out of pennies. Disney stores are busy and it's hard to get in and ask for change. All of sudden, we started finding pennies everywhere we went! What's funny is that our daughter is always looking for loose change on the ground. Up to that point, she hadn't found a single one! THEN, we ran out of quarters for the penny press machines. We started saying that NOW we needed to find quarters. Within a few hours we starting finding quarters AND the most amazing of all, my daughter found a little pile of change on the ground. We all said a quick thank-you to "Papa" (what my daughter called my dad)! Of course we all realized it could be coincedence, but it was nice to think "someone" else was there, too.


Ddr
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08-19-2001

Friday, April 23, 2004 - 5:30 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
goosebumps too WOW!

Serate
Member

08-21-2001

Friday, April 23, 2004 - 5:32 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
I personally wouldn't say coincidence - Papa put them there for your daughter. That's a sweet story!

Whoami
Member

08-03-2001

Friday, April 23, 2004 - 10:18 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
I remember when our washing machine broke down. Mom and I decided to dismantle it and try and fix it ourselves, but we couldnt' find our pliers. I looked for two hours, before I decided I'd had enough, and walked up to the local store to buy a new pair.

As I paid for the new pliers, I whined to the cashier about the washer. When I described the symptoms, she not only knew exactly what was wrong with it, but how we should go about fixing it (we were going about it completely the wrong way). I got home and relayed the info to Mom, and we proceeded to tackle the washer.

We went over to the washer, and there were our old pliers, in plain view, on a table right next to the washer (and yes, I'd looked there several times already, and there wasn't even anything else on the table). Obviously I was meant to go get those repair instructions from that cashier!

Pamy
Member

01-02-2002

Friday, April 23, 2004 - 10:38 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
LOL Who! Serate ...great story!

Whoami
Member

08-03-2001

Friday, April 23, 2004 - 10:45 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Oh Serate! I need to slow down and read these stories more thoroughly. That's just awesome!

Christy358
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07-31-2002

Saturday, April 24, 2004 - 12:21 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Ok, I have one. Happened not to me but to a co-worker. We work at a retail store. It is the big store in the market, so we get lots of visits from upper management. This particular co worker is new to our store, but has been at the buying office.

Upper management had come to visit and had talked to everyone involved. My co worker had turned to take care of something but got paged and had to change directions. She heard one member of upper management say..." I never liked her.". It was very evident who she was talking about.

co worker was very hurt, because she had been trying to hard at new postion.

She walked over to where she had been called to and customer stopped her. customer asked her how she was. Co worker kind of thought she knew the person, but could not place. Then customer asked about her family. Co worker took a step back and said..."I am not sure where I know you from, can you remind me?" Customer replied, "You ask because I ask about your family. You helped me last time I was here, you were so nice I have been praying for you and your family."

I know a higher powere of some kind was there to tell her that the slight from the higher up was nothing compared to the impact she made as a person to others around her.

Pamy
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01-02-2002

Saturday, April 24, 2004 - 3:36 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Christy..what a sweet story ! does she still work there?

Azriel
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08-01-2000

Saturday, April 24, 2004 - 4:07 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
My older brother was in the hospital in another town close to ours. My mother and I had gone to see him for the last visiting hours at night. When we left the hospital, it was dark, cold and raining.

We took a shorter way home, but it was on a really dark unlit backroad. As we were driving along the dashboard lights on our car started to dim. I realized that the alternator was going out and I turned off the heater to try and conserve some of the juice left in it because we were in the middle of nowhere.

The windshield started fogging up and my wipers started moving slower and slower till I finally turned them off. I was freaking out because I couldn't see and my mom finally dug a used tissue up from the bottom of her purse. I wiped away a little circle and handed it back to my mom who started trying to wipe her side. Her side just fogged back up, but my little circle of vision stayed clear.

Then the headlights went completely out. I couldn't see a thing and I knew if I stopped the car, it wouldn't start again. My mom was crying and I was fighting back tears and then we both said in almost unison, 'God help us' A few seconds later lights appeared behind us and a car whooshed past us and when it got ahead of us the driver turned on his bright lights. They were the brightest lights I'd ever seen and they lit the highway up so that I could follow behind easily.

A few miles up the road we saw a gas station sign and mom and I both cheered. Right before the gas station the car turned off the road, but the lights of the station were bright enough that we still had plenty of light to make it to the station.

As we got right before the station my mom and I really freaked out when we realized that there was no road before the station. I pulled into the station parking lot and the car immediately died. My mother and I just sat and looked at each other in disbelief. I told my mom, 'You know, no one is ever going to believe this!'

Pamy
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01-02-2002

Saturday, April 24, 2004 - 5:52 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
chills! that one gave me chills! What a great story

Carrie92
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09-15-2003

Saturday, April 24, 2004 - 7:17 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Az, do you mind if I share your story with some gals from my bible study?

Awesome story!!!

Whoami
Member

08-03-2001

Saturday, April 24, 2004 - 10:03 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
That is just wonderful Azriel!!

I know I had a little help a couple of times while driving. Both times in fact, it was while following sis to a destination.

The first time, I pulled up behind them at a red light. The light turned green, and as traffic cleared they pulled through the intersection. I proceeded to follow, my eyes on them the whole time. Suddenly, my foot was on the brake, and I see a truck right in front of me that had just blazed through the red light at a high rate of speed. I know without a doubt I was not the one who put my foot on the brake that day. If my car hadn't stopped, I would have been T-boned for sure.

The next time was when I was helping sis move. She had loaded up their truck with the plastic "Playschool" house they used for a dog house, and I had loaded up my car with their more fragile things. We're out on the busy road going about 60 mph, and suddenly the dog house comes flying out of the truck and heads straight for me. I hit the brakes and just wait...I mean that thing was on a direct path to plow into me head on. Suddenly the "wind" grabbed it and swooped it off to the side of the road. Sis said she watched it in her rear view window, and said it was just like a giant hand reached down and batted that house aside.

Of course, the upside of that now is I can tease sis for the rest of our lives that she tried to drop a house on me!

Jan
Member

08-01-2000

Saturday, April 24, 2004 - 2:58 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
My Sis and B-i-l and I drove to my Mom's home in Arizona (a 45 hour drive non stop..switching drivers), spent a week, drove 45 hours straight back all in the B-I-L's old Volvo.

When we got back,my sister got up early to drive the car another 150 highway miles to work in another city. She went into work, came out a half hour later to drive the car to her first appt...and the brakes completely failed in the parking lot. She banged into a cement bumper to stop.

We had driven over 5000 miles on highways over that week. Those brakes could have failed anywhere, at anytime, on any highway going any speed. They chose to fail in a parking lot.

I do believe in guardian angels :-)

Pamy
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01-02-2002

Saturday, April 24, 2004 - 3:30 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
ROTF Who!!!! great story

Jan..I believe in angels also!

Pamy
Member

01-02-2002

Saturday, April 24, 2004 - 3:34 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
My son was 1 1/2 yrs old when my mom died. He was at my friends house while I was at the hospital, when I went to pick him up my friend asked what was actual time of death..she said I thought so...I looked at her funny and she said that around 6pm my son walked to a corner and then started sobbing uncontrolably...she went to see what was wrong and couldn't figure anything that could make him cry.......my mom died at 5:58....we think she came and told him good bye.

About once a week after she died I would hear my son laughing and laughing in his room. I would walk in and he was staring into the air like he was watching someone making faces, making him laugh...no one was in the room...To this day, I think my Mom came and visited him...they say children can see the angels more clearly than we can

Texannie
Member

07-16-2001

Saturday, April 24, 2004 - 3:39 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
This thread is killing me!!! WOW Pamy!
I wouldn't mind a visit

Rupertbear
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09-19-2003

Saturday, April 24, 2004 - 3:42 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Goosebump time!

Mygetaway
Member

08-23-2000

Saturday, April 24, 2004 - 4:58 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Thanks everyone for sharing these wonderful, amazing, and awesome stories!!

Mak1
Member

08-12-2002

Saturday, April 24, 2004 - 6:41 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
My elderly neighbor was dying at home. Her husband had died a couple years previously. Her 2 sons were spending the night at her house. The sons were watching tv quietly in the front room, while their mom slept in the bedroom at the back of the house. They had a baby monitor set up, so they would hear if she needed them. Suddenly, they heard a male voice in the monitor and their mother's voice answering him. The voices were quiet and the sons couldn't make out the words. One son went to check on her. She was still alone, and still asleep. I like to think she was speaking with her husband that night. She died the next day.

I'm really enjoying everyone's stories!

Pamy
Member

01-02-2002

Saturday, April 24, 2004 - 6:46 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Oh wow!

Azriel
Member

08-01-2000

Saturday, April 24, 2004 - 9:58 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Carrie, you are welcome to share the story. My mom and I definitely believe there are angels among us.

Jed245
Member

11-01-2002

Sunday, April 25, 2004 - 3:31 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
I have another one.

When I was a very small child my older brother had found a stray dog and brought it home. We decided to call him lassie.

Lassie loved kids, loved to play and was friendly to everyone. There was an argument between my brother, our cousin, and my sisters as to who owned Lassie then suddenly Lassie disappeared. My brother at the time was about 17. When his birthday came up. Lassie was there all day till midnight that night. He followed him the whole day, even to work.

Then when my sisters birthday came, there was lassie again.... Till midnight. This happened on each of our birthdays and he would always disappear right after midnight. Lassie just kept coming back on our birthdays all the way up till my youngest sister was 18.

He would spend the day near the birthday boy or girl. And seemed to be only interested in spending time with them. Once someone was 18 Lassie didn't come back on their birthday. But, continued to return to see the other kids. This continued on for 7 years.

We would often search the town for Lassie and never found any signs of him. We even made attempts on birthdays to lock Lassie inside the house. But just after midnight no one could find him?

true story. :o)

Pamy
Member

01-02-2002

Sunday, April 25, 2004 - 9:23 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
WOW!

Pamy
Member

01-02-2002

Sunday, April 25, 2004 - 9:23 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
ps did you ever get a pic of Lassie?