An Unexpected Angel

I just went outside on the swings at the park near my apartment. As I swung back and forth, I thought about something quite miraculous that happened in my life a few months ago. Something I haven't really shared with anybody, not even my mother or other family members.

I did post a bit about the incident on my Facebook but not the whole story...

Strangest thing happened earlier... I was walking to the busstop after ... and there was somebody standing on the grass by a strip mall and they were holding a sign advertising for a store. I walked by them and the lady stopped me. She said "I am praying blessings over you." The sign she was holding was for a store that was not even Christian and I have never seen this lady before. I had absolutely no idea why she said it to me. Maybe because I still had a lot of arm spasms but it was just strange. All day, I have had moments where I feel the Holy Spirit. One of these moments was when I was crossing the street, right before she came up to me. I stuttered to her "You too!" and kept walking. You absolutely never know how God is going to speak to you or who he is going to bring into your life.

This incident with this random stranger occurred right around the onset of my paranoia and psychosis right before a hospitalization earlier this year.

I have never seen this lady again. I have been around that area since and have never seen her again. I'm starting to wonder if she was a hallucination. It wouldn't surprise me since I've had visual and audio hallucinations.  At the time, I was going through a very rough period. I went to the hospital just days later. Could my mind have hallucinated her in order to move forward and get to the hospital? Could she have guided me there just as the white birds guided me a month later?

I know it sounds odd, but one of the women during my hospitalization looked just like this lady. I mean everything about both of them was the same. At one point, I asked someone if it was her, if the woman worked elsewhere. I was told no way. The woman at the hospital who I am talking about helped me a lot while I was there and was by far the one who helped me the most. She reached out to me in a way that nobody else did. At one point she took me out of the unit to do some art therapy.

My aunt posted a comment on the status above, saying that the person was an angel. I think there is no other explanation.

It got me thinking about this verse...

"For he will command his angels concerning you

    to guard you in all your ways"

-Psalm 91:11 (NIV)