In July of 2010, I was driving on a county road in Southwestern Ontario and fell asleep at the wheel.  My son, who was texting at the time, was sitting beside me when he felt the car shaking as we entered a four-foot ditch.  He shouted to wake me up just in time for me to swerve from a hydro pole so that it hit the right-front fender instead of the front passenger seat.  Immediately, a St. John’s Ambulance official arrived on the scene and took charge of the situation.  The car was totaled.  That day I was inspired to create the attached “Thank You” card containing the poem I composed for her:  “God Sends an Angel or Two.” Here it is:

 

When deeds call for sharpness,

When we should be alert,

We sometimes falter. It’s true.

When we’re losing control

‘til it’s out of our grasp,

GOD SENDS AN ANGEL OR TWO.

When the road seems impassable

Or the future seems bleak,

Or we can’t find our way, we feel blue.

As answers escape us,

To help us survive,

GOD SENDS AN ANGEL OR TWO.

Certainty rules as we ponder on this.

How else would we cope or get through?

God often sends Angels to guide us through life.

And this time we know…

He sent you.

—submitted by Lew Wiffen, Canada