Angels Among Us

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Yesterday?

I learned how to kill a rattlesnake.








You may be wondering what that has to to with this song.



All of my life, I've had the blessing of angels watching over me. This isn't to say that life's been all good. There have been some really tragic things that have happened to me and my family. It's just that somehow the kindness of these angels have helped my family and me survive.

Then yesterday they kept us safe.

I don't know how to explain it. I really don't.



It's just that yesterday?

I listened to the angels who've been guarding my son and me our whole life.


I listened to that voice that whispered in my heart, "Take your son with you when you clean the dog pens.

So I did.


I listened to that voice when it whispered, "Don't let the dogs out of their pens."

So I didn't.

I listened to my son when he said, "Mom, is that a rattle?"


It was.


I listened to my pups when even after we'd decided that the snake had gone, they kept barking the alarm.


That snake was still there not four feet from us.


I listened to my neighbor when he said, "Stop. Don't go any closer."


If I'd not listened, it would have been a catastrophe.

The rattlesnake in the wood pile might have been missed until it was too late. The one not 8 feet from my pups. The one that would have surely bit my pups if they'd been let out of the kennels. The one that would have surely bitten my son or myself had we gone one step closer.


I listened when that whispered voice, who has guided me my whole life said,

"Listen."





I read that you should start each day saying what you're thankful for.


This morning? I'm thankful that my neighbor happened to pass by just as we were going to find that snake and I'm thankful that I listened to that whispered "inner voice" who guided us and kept us all safe.


"I believe their are angels among us..."



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