"There are Angels Among us"

This is a blog that has been brewing for a few weeks now. Up until then I just wasn't ready to share it other than with a few select people.  You can choose to believe what you wish but I personally believe their are Angels Among us and that sometimes God reminds us in small ways and if we are paying attention we hear.

I am not going to get into a lot about what was going on and what happened that brought all this on. None of it, except this one very vivid memory, is mine anyway. The 2 week period during which this happened is a blank anyway, other than what others have filled in.  Here is the gist of it though. I had just finished my induction chemo and was having a very hard time of it. I collapsed on my sisters, Kathy and Elizabeth, basically I almost died twice. I had stopped breathing. This is what started my 2 weeks of  no memories other than the actual collapse and this.

My Mom was up visiting one day and I really have no idea if she was watching me sleep or if we were talking. All of a sudden I asked if she could see him. She asked me who. There was a man sitting on the bed next to me. He had one foot on the floor and the other cocked a bit at the knee and coming off the bed. He was an older gentleman, was wearing a brown bomber jacket with all the patches on it, he had grey hair with some black steaks through it and it was combed over with a little wave in it. To this day he is still very vivid in my mind.  I think I really freaked her out for a minute. Then I told her "Mom, I am going to be fine he said I am going to be alright." This is what happened. While he was sitting next to me on my bed he touched my arm near my elbow and told me "Lisa, your going to be alright"

I really don't know when I started to get better and be more aware. All I know is he was my Angel. I always had faith I would beat Leukemia and no matter how hard things got I kept that faith.  I now occasionally need reminded. I have periods where my anxiety gets horrible and I get so scared I am going to relapse. Here recently I was really freaking out. It was the first time I had gotten sick enough to be on antibiotics since before I was diagnosed . I was having a really hard time getting rid of the crud and it scared me. See this is what happened before I was diagnosed. I got the crud and it would not go away! We always have the radio on in the morning and one day the song "There are Angels Among us" by Alabama came on. I firmly believe that was my sign. I was alright and I needed to let the anxiety go and continue to have faith that that was the case.  It was like a weight had been lifted off my shoulders. I remembered when my Angel came to me. This is what I mean about the little reminders and us needing to just pay attention and have faith.



I was walking home from school on a cold winter day.Took a shortcut through the woods, and I lost my way.It was getting late, and I was scared and alone.But then a kind old man took my hand and led me home.Mama couldn't see him, but he was standing there.And I knew in my heart, he was the answer to my prayers.

Oh I believe there are angels among us.Sent down to us from somewhere up above.They come to you and me in our darkest hours.To show us how to live, to teach us how to give.To guide us with the light of love.

When life held troubled times, and had me down on my knees.There's always been someone there to come along and comfort me.A kind word from a stranger, to lend a helping hand.A phone call from a friend, just to say I understand.

And ain't it kind of funny that at the dark end of the road.Someone lights the way with just a single ray of hope.

Oh I believe there are angels among us.Sent down to us from somewhere up above.They come to you and me in our darkest hours.To show us how to live, to teach us how to give.To guide us with the light of love.

They wear so many faces; show up in the strangest places.To guide us with their mercy, in our time of need.

Oh I believe there are angels among us.Sent down to us from somewhere up above.They come to you and me in our darkest hours.To show us how to live, to teach us how to give.To guide us with the light of love.

To guide us with the light of love.