Danny, the Angel Protector
by Sandy Nowalk
Jason is my middle son, who lives in Rowe, New Mexico. He is 29 years old, and a real cutie. He has been there now for about 4 years. He works as a Ceramic Tile Layer (I guess that is the correct title).
I think this happened a couple of years ago (not sure of the exact date). He was in a warehouse looking over slabs of cement that he needed to purchase for a job. He was in the middle of the room and the slabs were all around him in large piles. All of a sudden, the slabs started falling; he told me later that he has never been so scared in his life -- then he felt a pair of hands pulling him out to safety. At the precise moment he was pulled out, the slabs fell onto the floor in the exact spot where he had been standing. The people that were there started applauding. Jason looked around and asked who was the person that had pulled him out ... The men all said that it must have been an angel, because it wasn't any of them.
When the slabs hit the floor it was 2,000 pounds that fell -- my son would have been crushed to death. Jason said, "I know exactly who it was -- my brother, Danny!"
About a year ago, my daughter Patti and I had been talking and she told me that she felt really bad because Danny had come to a lot of us, but she had not even had a dream where he came to her. She is eleven years older than her baby brother, and her relationship with him was always very special; she was his 2nd mom from the day he was born! I told her not to feel bad because I knew that whether she had seen him or not he was with her.
About three weeks after this conversation She called me up on a Monday morning and said "Mom, I have no doubt any more that Danny is with me!" She then proceeded to tell me what had happened to her a couple of days before.
She lives in New York State also, but she lives about 50 miles north of where I live and in the winter they get tons of snow and it is lake effect! She works about ten miles away from home. She was on her way to work, going the back roads as she usually did. She said that it was snowing and there were icy spots on the road ... and as she has a tendency to have a heavy foot on the gas petal she was probably going faster than she should have. She hit a spot of ice and her car (which is a 2001 Durango, a big heavy vehicle) went off the road, up into the air and turned over.
Just as it did that Patti said that she cried out, "Please God, not yet!" The car very carefully turned itself back right side up, and gently came to ground. There was a tractor trailer that had been behind her, and the man that was driving it ran up to her, opened the car door and asked her if she was all right ... Patti said that she was, just pretty shook up. The man then told her that he had been a truck drive for over 30 years and he had never witnessed before what he had just seen: He told her that when her car went up into the air and flipped, he thought that she was a goner for sure, but then to his surprise, it looked like someone had cupped their hands around it, straightened the car around and tenderly brought it down in the field.
Patti did not have a scratch on her ... her car did not have a scratch on it ... and as she and the truckdriver walked around to the front of her car they saw only a few feet ahead was a large ravine! Patti knew immediately that Danny had been there with her! She said when she eventually got to work later that day, she told everyone she saw (she works as a principal's assistant at a BOCES School) what had happened and she didn't care if they thought she was crazy or what ... Danny was with her. She said that she felt like standing on the top of a mountain and yelling to everyone what her baby brother did for her!
Between my tears I asked her why she didn't call me that day. She said that it was because it had taken her the two days to calm down a little and she didn't want to upset me, by telling me of her accident...
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