For those people where someone was looking after them

[Crazy Train]

I was a truck driver for about 8 years.

One night, I was on I-80, and pulled into the port of entry in Cheyenne WY. The procedure is we go in, show them the paperwork and they send us on our way.

I asked the DOT inspector what the weather was like to the west. He said no problems. But I had my doubts. It was a mix of rain and snow in Cheyenne and something told me it was not nice to the west.

I took off, heading towards Laramie.

My intuition was right. It was not nice.

The blowing snow was so bad, I got vertigo. I thought I was moving, but was standing still.

Going down the hill into Laramie, my windshield got packed with ice. I could barely see and decided to pull off onto the shoulder to clear it.

After I stopped, I looked down and set the tractor brakes.

I heard a cracking sound. I looked up and my windshield was crystal clear. Not even a flake of snow or a drop of water was on it. The ice didn't fall off anywhere. It was just gone. I was grateful. That was probably the most nerve-wracking shift I had.

Anyone else get help from spirits?

 

[Mama2HRB]

All the time. It is my Dad, among others. I have also been smacked upside the head for driving too fast in bad weather. I have no doubt that was my Dad. :laugh:

 

[Crazy Train]

that made me laugh!


I could tell you some stories. I can't tell you how many times I wanted to whack someone upside the head, or beat the you-know-what out of them.


Several times I've said "I'm standing still and I'm still going to pass you". Sure enough, I pass them, because they put it in the ditch.


Then there are things that aren't so funny. There are many people out there that have no idea how close they came to being killed, but weren't because I was watching out for them. I think every truck driver out there can say the same thing.

 

[Nightrain]

There are many people out there that have no idea how close they came to being killed, but weren't because I was watching out for them.

I can't count the number of stories my son has come home with, describing how many mindless drivers have been unknowingly saved by his instinct and experience as an Over-the-road driver on the routes you described. But, I wonder sometimes if he has an angel looking over his shoulder; because his life has also been saved in uncanny ways.

 

[Arrant]

I am attaching the original manuscript of an article I wrote that was published in 2005. It describes a flight across the English Channel I made in 1986, and in which I could've killed myself many times! Afterwards, I got the shakes just thinking about how close we'd come. I've always believed I have a guardian angel looking after me, and I think I kept him very busy that day...and I think I've kept him pretty occupied on many an occasion since...but he has never deserted me...

 

[kmatjhwy]

Now I personally have had many occasions where do think I was helped by the other side. In my years of hiking, have had a couple of dozen or so close encounters with Grizzlies. Onetime wascharged by a grizzly bear mother with cubs with being charged 3 times down to like only 5 to 8 feet away. Another time in the summer of 2011, went around a bend in the trail and up the slope 45 feet away was a sow grizzly with 3 cubs of the year. The bears retreated. At other times have heard bears right outside my tent at night. Am still here in the land of the living with nothing harmful ever coming to me. Do think it was only the Creator and the other side helping me and watching out for me in those times. Who knows maybe my spirit guides were there and the bears could see them but not me.


Also there has been other times in my life where I knew it was only the Creator and the other side helping me out. I normally do not drive and right now live without a vehicle. But one time which is a long story made short, was driving at night where I feel asleep. I quickly woke back up (had to be by the spirit), for if I had not woken back up, would have crashed right soon afterwards. Another time as a kid I feel off some jungle jims in a playground park where I almost bit my tongue off. I Had bitten completely thru my tongue, 3/4ths the way across. I was instantly taken to the hospital. We were then presently living in Jackson, Miss. at the time. And at the time it just happened that the best plastic surgeon in the whole south was there. Another time as a kid drank some paint thinner accidentally, where I was quickly rushed to the hospital. The hospital had their doors open for me waiting for me. If it had been a just few more minutes, I would have died. There has been sooo many instances in my life where something could have happened that could go on and on with many a story. My mother would often remark that my guardian angel had to work overtime in protecting me in so many times as a kid and in my life. But with everything am still here in the land of the living and completely fine today. And it is only the Creator and the other side! How many times are we helped by the Creator and the other side however it might be and we don't even know it.

 

[usetawuz]

I am aware of at least three occasions when what I initially called "the hand of God" pulled the steering wheel in a direction my hands were not going and thus saved several lives. I drive fast and I believe well, though others have questioned my recklessness, and I have past deaths which provide testament to a level of ability somewhat less than my self described capability!


The most dramatic experience I have seen though was my sisters, and while not a moving experience, it was dramatic. She experienced a flat tire on the side of a major interstate between small towns and at night. She got out and only had the light from her open door and the now open trunk to try to change the tire. A car pulled over in front of her and backed up to provide assistance, and the man expressed a willingness to do just that but he then seemed somehow reticent to move toward taking off the other tire and putting on the good one which instantly set my sister on edge. This was well before cellphones or any other method of contacting anyone in an emergency.


At that point, and seemingly out of nowhere a car...exactly like my sister's, pulled off the highway with headlights brilliantly illuminating the scene and the man's workspace. My sister ran to the driver's door and there she met a husband and wife who appeared to be in their late seventies who she said were just like "Ma and Pa Kettle!" The husband stuck his head out the window and shouted to the man "Just take care of that tire...we'll keep the lights on for ya!" My sister stayed with them chatting about everything and nonsense and soon the man put the flat tire in the trunk and waved back to my sister and the older folks that he was finished and "see ya!".


My sister...immensely relieved and eternally grateful spoke with the older folks for awhile longer and returned to her car and prepared to turn onto the highway...as she turned to see when her benefactors were going to pull out...they were gone. There was no car nor evident headlights anywhere near her...she was once again alone. My sister is one who does not believe anything until she sees it in her hands...and she truly believes "ma and pa kettle" were angels ensuring she would get home that night. She'd probably chastize me for posting this, but she'll never find it! So I'll share this amazing world with you, my fellow believers.

 

[BriarRose]

I'm on the watch for angels in disguise often nowadays. Your story, and those of the others, gave me hope and joy, Usetawuz. I've had "odd" conversations with several strangers lately, that made me "wonder".

 

[tanguerra]

This kind of thing has happened to me more than a few times. However, I don't ascribe these sorts of 'interventions' to any dieties or angels or mystical forces of one sort or another (not that there's anything wrong with that). Some of these behaviours (avoidance of danger) are learned, often the 'hard way' often over more lives than one. After all, we (our bodies) wouldn't be here without our instinctive fear of danger and risk, let's face it. Sometimes this is just prosaic stuff. Other times... sure ... not so much.


Sometimes there's an 'intuition' is the only word for it that feels right to me. Something feels like a 'bad idea' and I just don't go there. A certain person, a certain situation just didn't feel right. A couple of times in my youth I ignored my intuition and I always regretted it. (Turn right now. No! Stop! Oops! Smash!)


Sometimes I wonder if I've lived this particular life more than once. Why wouldn't you after all? I'm comfortable, well fed, a roof over my head, enough money most of the time. I have not that many serious physical real world problems really and I'm living in one of the most exciting periods of human history. Why wouldn't you do it a few times at least, if that was an option ... and see what happens? Maybe try to 'get it right' this time?


I get a very '

' feeling every now and again when I have an important decision to make, or sometimes with issues of world events. Sometimes I just know what's going to happen next in the 'wider world' (not just in my own personal dilemmas). Like this morning I woke up and heard the news on the radio that a 'liquid natural gas' (CSG) hub planned for a pristine wilderness in northern Australia had been cancelled and I just knew that was going to happen... (because, at least in part, of the massive resistance to it, which I've been aiding and abetting of course as you do... MY planet!). But it was more than that. I thought, 'Oh good. Finally. I knew that was going to happen.' (Hard to explain).
Sometimes at pivotal moments in my personal life I've had intense moments of de ja vu, like I know what's going to happen next if I make a certain decision to go, stay, walk away, just go with it... whatever. I've learned to trust that 'little voice'. I don't know if it's the voice of God (however you conceive her) or the voice of an angel or spirit guide or 'just' the voice of experience. Perhaps it's all the same thing anyway ... if we're all immortal? If we're all part of the 'divine' (however you conceive her)?


Just my viewpoint. One of many.

 

[hydrolad]

My list of "Miracles" in my life is too long to list, but just to illustrate some, a few notable ones to mention:


1. Up in North Florida, while on the way to visit my Parents (years ago) I was starting to pull back onto the highway, and looked both ways and started to turn into my lane and felt a hand on my face and turned towards the feeling and saw the grill of a large Semi bearing down in my lane (passing another vehicle) and had I not stopped, I would have been right in the path of that Semi Truck.


2. Driving home from work on a long stretch of highway with a long curve at some Railroad tracks, I started into the curve and heard or felt a voice to slow down NOW, so I quickly took my foot off the gas pedal and press on the brake pedal, when ahead of me, in the curve, I could see a car pull into my lane to pass someone, and had I not slowed down when I did, I would have been right in that spot and possibly in danger of being in an accident.


As mentioned earlier, there are numerous incidents of where I heard a voice giving me warning to some danger or receiving a "feeling" of impending danger in time to warn me and take action.


I'm not sure who "owns" the voice, my Guardian Angel or Spirit, a deceased relative watching out for me, a deceased friend already passed over and interested in warning me of danger thus keeping me alive, I just do not know, but I am very grateful for their intercession on my behalf.


And I firmly believe, IMHO that this intercession in my life, has the OK of the Creator, for if it did not, it would not have been allowed to happen!!!

 

[argonne1918]

It's happened to me more than once. Several years ago I was traveling to San Francisco on the 101 freeway. All of a sudden the traffic in front of me was standing still. I stepped on the brake but was headed for a rear end collision. I glanced to the left and to my astonishment there was no traffic. So I pulled into the far left lane and continued on my way.

 

[Shiftkitty]

In Santa Cruz I was driving home from school in a '74 Pinto. Just as I started around a blind corner I saw the image of a large animal, I assumed it was a large black dog. It had dashed onto the street right in front of me. I came down hard on the brakes but didn't see a dog anywhere. In a split second a speeding pick-up blew a stop sign. He would have creamed my driver's side.


I had heard the legends of the Black Dog being also called a Hound of Hell and how they're supposed to be a sign of bad luck, but this one did me some good, apparently. (Strange, throughout my life I've seen things that were considered "demonic" images or omens, yet they've always presaged some kind of good fortune!)

 

[hydrolad]

To argonne1918 and others

It's happened to me more than once. Several years ago I was traveling to San Francisco on the 101 freeway. All of a sudden the traffic in front of me was standing still. I stepped on the brake but was headed for a rear end collision. I glanced to the left and to my astonishment there was no traffic. So I pulled into the far left lane and continued on my way.

Interesting, a premonition of an incident in the future perhaps; DOT keeps good records of incidents that happen on the Freeway, I wonder if something like that has already happened or is yet to come?


I don't doubt your experience one bit, it sounds like something that might indeed happen to me, my problem (years ago) that on long distance trips, that is with the radio/cassette playing Folk or Easy Listening music, the drone of the A/C and the whine of the tire friction on the highway and the familiarity of the scenery caused me to "zone out" and I arrived at the outskirts of my destination with no memory on how I got there.


The first couple of times it happened, it scared me, but somehow, someway, while I was under this "Highway Hypnosis", something (or someone) appeared to have complete and safe control of my vehicle because nothing appeared to have happened, no accidents, never pulled over by the law, no damage to my vehicle and so forth.


However, now that I'm much older and not in the best of health, I don't travel much at all, either by myself or with someone else, so I don't know if I still have that "gift" or trait anymore?

 

[argonne1918]

...it sounds like something that might indeed happen to me, my problem (years ago) that on long distance trips, that is with the radio/cassette playing Folk or Easy Listening music, the drone of the A/C and the whine of the tire friction on the highway and the familiarity of the scenery caused me to "zone out" and I arrived at the outskirts of my destination with no memory on how I got there.

This is a well known phenomena. Probably a good thing that we can operate on "auto pilot" much of the time. If you had to think about everything you do you would be even more distracted. Even the passengers get "zoned out". This is why it's so common for children to start talking about past life memories while in the car.