My Dad said as they came over the brow of the hill they saw in the distance another car coming at high speed directly in the oncoming direction. The country lane was only wide enough for one car. There were steep banks on either side, and they knew that as they went down into the dip the oncoming driver would not be able to see them.
There was no place to turn. There was no space to get over to let him pass. All of this happened in a split second. Sure enough, the car came over the hill and my mother and father, sitting up front, said later that they braced themselves for the impact. They even saw the shocked and terrified face of the other driver as he prepared to crash into them head on at high speed.
Next thing they knew they were looking out the back window of the car at his fast receding tail lights. There was no way he could have got around them. There was simply no space for two cars. Instead, one car passed through the other, and went on its way. The laws of physics as we understand them were suspended for a moment and we were delivered.
Believe in miracles.
Ghost car!
ReplyDeleteI had a very similar experience about fifteen years ago. I was pulling out of our school parking lot. There were high snowbanks on either side of the drive, and you almost had to get on the road to see around them. The speed limit on the road was 55. As I pulled out, I saw a truck barreling toward me. There were snowbanks on either side of the road and no place to get out of the way. I braced for a hit. Then the truck was past me, and didn't even have it's brake lights on. It drove on like nothing happened.
ReplyDeleteI believe in miracles, too.
@Andrew "Holy Ghost" car! @ Babs - Several years ago, a friend and I were traveling to Nashville, Indiana. She was driving, and as we rounded a curve, there were two semi trucks side-by-side coming straight for us. There was no way to get off on either side. We braced for the crash, and I only had time to pray, "Oh, Jesus!". And then -- suddenly we were past them, and they were nowhere in sight. I believe in miracles, and in the power of the Holy Name.
ReplyDeleteSomething very like this happened to me. I was driving and pulled out to pass. A car came out of a dip in the road ahead, very fast. There were cars in the other lane and nowhere to go. I knew we were going to crash and then suddenly we were on the other side of the oncoming car. My friend who was seated in the passenger seat looked at me in amazement. We both knew it was a miracle.
ReplyDeleteMany years ago I was driving in a heavy rainstorm on the Pennsylvania Turnpike in the mountains of west central Pa. Traffic was heavy and moving at 65 MPH. I was in the left lane and there were cars on my right. All of a sudden the car in front of me hit the brakes, instinctivley I swerved into the right lane, the cars that were there seemed to have disapeared, this really shook me up, but I was so thankful to God for saving me that day.
ReplyDeleteI was driving in very heavy fog one night, on a two lane road with my three kids and husband all fast asleep. All of a sudden my car jerked over to the side of the road, as if someone took over the steering wheel from me! At that moment a truck came roaring by on the road that a split second before we were on! In the heavy fog I never even saw him coming on. I know miracles happen!
ReplyDeleteThat exact thing happened to me and my husband, as we were coming home from a camping trip with our two children (4 and 6 at the time). I swear there was no way for the car to miss us, even though my husband pulled as far to the right as he could and the other driver pulled as far to HIS right as he could. It was a narrow twisting road known for fatal car accidents, and there were ditches on both side - no shoulders. That car came at us like a bullet and my husband says I screamed, but I have no memory of that at all. I was not frightened, I was just appalled because I knew in my gut that it was death speeding right at us.
ReplyDeleteAnd somehow death went by us and hit people two cars behind us instead. IT was the most chilling and horrible thing, and I still think there was no natural way for that car to get past us. It went through us -- I drive on the road to this day and it is not three lanes wide. That day was when I understood how ancient people could believe in fate. It was not our day to die, but it was someone's else's. I was not a praying person at the time and so if God saved me it was out of pure grace, because I didn't ask for it -- although perhaps someone else in the car did, or someone in the car in the other lane. But it didn't seem like a miracle, it seemed like implacable fate: Like there was no way for us to have died, and no way for the other person not to.
Kudos to guardian angels. Ours saved us on our honeymoon. Rounding a hilltop curve late at night, we hit a patch of black ice and lost control, turning at right angles to the semi in the oncoming lane, so close that I could see the driver's face. Time seemed to stand still. I put my head down, closed my eyes, and prepared for death with a prayer. Then everything was very quiet and floating. When I looked up, we had spun completely around and crossed back across the road and landed on the side of road pointing away from the road. Car acrobatics in a nanosecond. Thank you, God.
ReplyDeleteMet my guardian angel face to face, 1984, my cousins bachelor party, way too much to drink, (yes I used to really down the beer and anything else in sight) Just purchased an 1983 Hurst Olds with a T top, left the party and stupidly decided to go bar hopping, stopped at a rural intersection and got very ill and then passed out. woke up in the passenger seat, someone else was driving my car, never met the guy before or seen him since, long bright blond hair and a blinding white T shirt, positivity seemed to be daylight in that car, he looked over at me and smiled and said, "looks like you need a ride home tonight Dave", I just nodded and passed back out, woke up about dawn as my Dad was going out to milk the cows, reclined in the passenger seat a light drizzle starting to fall, the tops were out and I was getting wet. Dad looked me and asked how I got in the drivers seat, later he said he never heard anyone else come in or leave. I believe I met my Guardian Angel that night, if I'd driven home I'd probably met him too but under different circumstances. Honestly scared me silly and slowed down my drinking. I had, and still have, a long way to go spiritually but I do believe in Angels
ReplyDeleteEgyptian wins the prize for the most awesome guardian angel story yet!
ReplyDeleteI was turning left across a four lane road when a car all of a sudden crested a hill and was about to crash into my rear end at high speed. At the last minute he veered and passed to the left of me crashing into two cars just three feet to my left. I remember thinking they were all going to pile into me. Instead, the impact kept them in there lanes three feet next to me. As I watched the explosion of glass, plastic and metal hurdle toward my car, it all flew in an arc towards, then over my car then dropping to the opposite side of me. The three drivers of the collided car all got out of their totaled cars and mine, again just three feet away, was totally unscathed. Thank you Guardian Angel.
ReplyDeleteWhen I was a very little girl I saw a lady in my room. She was very beautiful, aglow, and shimmering, with long, curly, brown hair. She didn’t say anything, but smiled and held out her hand to me. I told my mother about the lady and she believed me, wondering if it might have been my recently departed great grandmother. My mother asked me what the lady was wearing and I was unable to describe her dress, but soon thereafter I tried to duplicate her dress with my dolls, using my mother’s beautiful scarves draped around them. Although I became very rebellious as a teenager and young adult, I always remembered the lady and the reality of another dimension, although I’ve never figured out her identity.
ReplyDeleteI appreciate reading all these stories about angels, especially Egyptian’s story, as his angel was not an invisible spirit, as the Catechism teaches, but very visible.
Many years ago, I think in 1970, I did not have more than a year and a half of driving experience, and I was on a 2-lane road going east, on Christmas Eve. Going west, the traffic was bumper to bumper. There was freezing rain. Suddenly I saw a car trying to pass all that traffic, coming right at me. As I remember, I went as far right as I could, and the oncoming car seemed to be able to squeeze in the middle, squeezing between my car and the line of bumper to bumper cars. It was the first time I drove in freezing rain and I certainly did not have the driving experience that would have allowed me to calculate exactly how far I could go to the right without getting off the road and losing control. I have always been convinced it was my guardian angel, or those of the 3 other people with me, that controlled the car that night.
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