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Do you believe in Angels? well, I do.
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BACK IN 1968, I WAS A NEW CHRISTAIN. ONLY YOUNG AT THE TIME. STILL FINDING OUT TRUTHS IN THE WORD, HOW TO APPLY THOSE TRUTHS IN MY LIFE, ON A DAILY BASIS. BEING A NEW BORN CHRISTAIN, I STILL HAD A LOT TO LEARN. I WAS WORKING, A GOOD JOB FOR THOSE TIMES. I WORKED AS A WAITER/BUSBOY IN A PROMINENT HOTEL IN THE AREA WHERE I LIVED.
MY MODE OF TRANSPORTATION BACK AND FORTH TO WORK WAS A MOTORCYCLE. I WAS NEW TO HAVING A BIKE. THIS PARTICULAR DAY I WAS FINISHING UP A SHIFT. MY SHIFTS WERE IN THE MORNING, AFTERNOON AND EVENINGS. IF A WORKER HAD TO STAY FOR THE AFTERNOON SHIFT, THEY WERE ENTITLED TO LUNCH. NOT SURE IF THIS ONE COOK HAD A BAD DAY, UT HE WOULD NOT GIVE ME LUNCH, EVEN THOUGH IT WAS REQUIRED.
NEEDLESS TO SAY, I WAS ANGRY. BEING A NEW CHRISTAIN, I SHOULD NOT HAVE BEEN ANGRY, FOR I WAS. I DROVE HOME, STILL ANGRY IN MY HEART. SLEPT FOR AN HOUR, TILL IT WAS TIME TO GO BACK FOR THE EVENING SHIFT. AS I DROVE, THERE WAS AN INTERSECTION, WITH LIGHTS. A VAN WAS IN THE OPPOSITE LANE TRAVELLING IN THE OTHER DIRECTION, OR SO I THOUGHT. THIS WAS THE ONE DAY I HAD NOT WORN MY HELMET. ONCE THE LIGHT TURNED GREEN, THE VANPROCEEDED THROUGH THE INTERSECTION AND MADE A TURN ACROSS MY PATH. THE DRIVER HAD NOT SEEN ME, AS I WAS GOING THROUGH THE INTERSECTION AS WELL.
THERE WAS NO WAY TO AVOID A COLLISSION. MY MOTORCYCLE STRUCK THE FRONT WHEEL WELL OF THE VAN. THE LAW OF MOTION SAYS THAT AN OBJECT TRAVELLING FORWARD WILL STAY IN MOTION. THE FORWARD MOTION OF THE MOTORCYCLE WAS STOPPED. I SHOULD HAVE CONTINUED IN A FORWARD MOTION. I DID NOT. I SHOULD HAVE WENT OVER THE HOOD OF THE VAN, OR THROUGH THE SIDE WINDOW, OR HAD THE HANDLE BARS OF THE BIKE GOUGED MY FRONT.THAT DID NOT HAPPEN.
WHEN THE BIKE HIT THE VAN, I WAS THROWN CLEAR OF THE BIKE, TOSED INTO THE AIR, LANDING ON MY FEET. HOW DID I LAND ON MY FEET, SOME DISTANCE FROM THE ACCIDENT? WELL THINK ABOUT IT FOR A SECOND. ONLY GOD'S HAND PROTECTED ME FROM SERIOUS INJURY. THE INJURY I RECIEVED WERE MINOR, A BRKEN WRIST AND TOE. IF I HAD LANDED ON MY BACK, I WOULD HAVE CRACKED MY HEAD OR BROKEN MY BACK, AND IT IS ONLY BY GOD'S GRACE THAT I AM ALIVE.
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