ANGELS AMONG US

 An old Alabama song entitled “Angels among us” made its way to my music playlist months ago and I say it has been one of the finest country songs I’ve ever heard to date. When I actually got to hear it for the first time, I just thought it was one of an old country record fit for a good time sleep and it wouldn’t matter what it says for it sounded more of a traditional one which I seldom listens to. Yet somehow, who would trash a song with a marvelous story to tell even though it’s ancient enough for you to hear and it can even moved you when you’re captured by its lyrics. And I must say I go for songs like that.

My reminiscence to this song has been brought by something unusual that happens last week. I believe the song talks more of Jesus or someone who has been an angel for someone lost in his life’s darkest moments. I knew my story for this post couldn’t be far enough to match what the song’s story is entirely about but I felt like it somehow relates a thing or two. I’d realized there will be angels or people good enough to save us at time we desperately need them and by faith they’re definitely among us.

An unusual day ends up with a momentarily mind rest as I utter for prayers while heading home having a ride on a PUJ seemingly taking a death race. Its constant pace never bothered me at all as I ponder on one thought that I just realized moments after I packed my things for home. A precious blue pouch slipped through my pocket and may have found its way to a stranger. It happens that the small pouch used to hold important identification cards, credit and ATM cards as well as cash I spend for a day and the fact that it was lost gave me a bad day of countless reckoning how could it was possibly lost.

There seemed to be no point of blaming myself over and over for the bad story had already run its lines for that unusual day. As I gazed to every street the PUJ passed by, I was just left holding to one thing I knew I was keeping not to lose though it seemed like it would, Faith. At that moment, I knew I haven’t said the most beautiful prayer God would always love hearing but I guessed if it’s sincere enough and it’s anything that comes from the heart, it will be heard. So I just kept on repeating my prayers till I dropped by the street which leads me home.

My housemates were having a grin at me when I opened the door and immediately told me that something I owned was returned by somebody who got a hold of it probably the moment I lost it. I just have to claim it downstairs for he had handed it to our neighbors since no one was left home the time he personally delivered the thing to our address. They said he just left his phone number if I’m interested meeting him. They hand over the blue pouch to me and I immediately check its contents and fortunate to see it all complete.

To this date, I still haven’t called or leave a message to that kind stranger since our neighbor downstairs hadn’t forwarded yet the guy’s phone number. I just thanked God for someone like him and prayed he would always be blessed with the kind deed he had just done. I definitely had lessons learned from this story and this would primarily teach me to always keep a look on my things at all times but most of all, Pray for God is good all the time and he had a lot of angels sent for us.

ANGELS AMONG US

Alabama

Written by Becky Hobbs

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.

Chorus
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 a 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 aint it kind of funny that at the dark end of the road.
Someone lights the way with just a single ray of hope.

Chorus

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

Chorus
To guide us with a light of love.