Guardian Angels

My sister, Sara, briefly mentioned this in a blog of hers, and I thought I would share the entire story since I was there that day. I will always remember this particular Saturday in July many years ago as the day that I saw my brother's guardian angels.

It was a hot Saturday afternoon in July, around 1993. We came home from our swim meet, had lunch and changed clothes and then headed out to the mall. I remember that I was really tired that day and didn't want to go to the mall with my mom and Eddie to pick out a new comforter set for my bedroom that my mom was redoing for me and Sara. We went to Security Square Mall and were in Wards. Mom and Sara had been there before and saw this set that they both really liked and they wanted to get my "ok" before they bought it. Sara was at Wynnewood Pool working, so it was just the three of us. (Dad was at work too). We walked through the store on the lower level and had to take the escalator up to the Housewares Dept. Mom and I were riding together and Eddie was a few steps behind us. No one else was on the escalator, so mom was ok with Ed being behind her. (It must have been 1992, I'm pretty sure Ed was only 10. I'm sure Sara will comment if I am wrong :p) As we were going up we felt the escalator kind of stop, and roughly start again, kind of knocking us off balance. Mom looked back to be sure Ed was ok, and I will NEVER forget what I saw then! Eddie's head was stuck between the diagional wall and the black rubber railing of the escalator, his feet were even off the steps because he was being pulled so hard! Mom and I yelled as we tried to get to him, but it was hard to do since we had to run down the up escalator. I remember Mom trying to yank him free as she yelled "Lord, help me!" All of a sudden there were about 6 HUGE men who appeared out of no where, grabbed Ed and yanked him out. He had been stuck so tightly that he had black streaks on his cheeks and his baseball hat had fallen off. (The dr's told mom that if he had not been wearing that hat he would have had some serious injuries). We got to the top level and mom turned to thank the men, but they had all disappeared. There were a few on-lookers, but none of them were the "men" on the escalator with us.

Some might think that is strange, coincidence, luck, etc... I however, know the truth, and that is that God sent his angels to protect my brother that day. I'm sure it is not the only time those angles have taken care of Eddie because, as Dani said, "he's pretty rotten" :) .

Oh, and for those of you who were wondering- I hated the comforter set Mom and Sara picked out but they bought it anyway.