Day 6: A Moment You Wish You could Relive: An Experience with Angels

   Well, I had to think about this one for a while. Of course there was many times in my life which I wanted to last forever. Lot's of parties, family and friend outings, vacations......on and on and on. But I decided to do a single moment that was really important to me and one that I never forgot.

   One of the most common places our family goes on vacation is the beach. Whether it's one hour away for a weekender or fifteen hours away for a two weeker our family LOVES the beach. Probably the beach we travel to the most in my life (besides our own Sandbridge, 20 mins away from our house) is Myrtle Beach (and Nags Head, but this takes place in Myrtle Beach.) We've been there with friends and extended family, but the year I remember most is when I was about seven. I enjoyed the hot afternoons running into the cool waves. I would stay in the ocean for hours.........and hours. I would jump over and dive into gigantic waves (the bigger, the better) and go out as far as I dared. Those were wonderful memories in general, but the specific one happened on an evening walk, where it began to cool down and there was little tide pools. My little brother and I loved to play in the tide pools, but that day it was only my mom and I. There was nobody else on the beach (in that area at least) and finally mom had to drag me out of the pools. (I loved searching for minnows and sand crabs.) As I walked back to our condo (the same one e stayed in each year we went) holding mom's hand the wind whispered to me "look behind you." And there they were dancing over the pools. They didn't appear as one might expect. They were almost translucent.......a beautiful chorus of lights, but it was amazing. After all, angels can appear in any form.
   I never forgot (and never will forget) about that blessed experience and I pray that one day I could see angels again. Mom says that when I was a baby, when she held me, I would point behind her and laugh with a huge smile on my face. She would turn around, expecting to see my dad making faces, but there would be nobody there. I think I saw angels even then. :)
.............no, I didn't make any of this up. :)

God Bless,
Rachel