“But the angel said..., 'Do not be afraid.'”
~ Luke 1:13
A woman I know does not like to fly, but she has to for work, so she does. On a recent flight, she experienced the worst turbulence she probably has ever been through. The pilot kept getting rerouted to avoid a bad storm system, but there was a lot of lightning and the plane took quite a number of “deep dips” as another passenger put it. A gentleman sitting across the empty middle seat from the woman ended up being an angel. The woman asked him to talk to her because she was nervous, so he told her about his family, his daughters, his son-in-law and the birth of a recent grandchild. They talked about religion, too. When the turbulence got really bad, the gentleman asked the woman if she wanted to hold his hand. She did and she squeezed this angel’s hand as hard as she could every time the plane took another dip. She felt as though she was on a roller coaster with the lightning flashes as special effects. But through it all, the woman held on tight to the angel’s hand and he kept telling her that it was going to be okay. His name was Gabriel.
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