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— Thanks to author Joan Wester Anderson for today's
Special Edition
PANIC IN THE SURF
By Joan Wester
Jan and Lee, a teenage couple, had gone to
But Jan wanted to impress her boyfriend. “Let’s go in!” she suggested enthusiastically
(even though the waves were quite intimidating.
Lee was obviously smarter, decided right then and there to stay on shore
and spread out the blanket. Alone, Jan
ventured into the high surf. “Before I
knew what was happening, the waves got even bigger,” she remembers. “I wasn’t that far out, but as I tried to get
back to the beach I lost my footing, and couldn't touch the bottom to propel
myself toward shore.”
The enormous waves broke over Jan’s head, making it
almost impossible for her to see the shoreline.
Disoriented, she felt like a helpless cork, unable to fight the current
no matter how hard she swam against it.
Couldn’t Lee see her? Jan saw herself being sucked out to the giant
storm farther out at sea. She was going
to drown, she knew. As another wave crashed down upon her, Jan realized that
she was caught in a dreaded rip tide, which was pulling her farther and
farther. Weak, almost paralyzed with
fear and exhaustion, Jan managed to yell.
“Help!” she screamed, but her plea was silenced by the surf’s roar.
“Then at that very same instant I saw a hand reach out
of the water right in front of me,” Jan says, “and a voice asked me calmly if I
needed help! I remember grabbing the
hand and then I blacked out or was in shock, because I don't remember much of
anything else.” In what seemed like mere
seconds, Jan found herself upright, and walking out of the water onto the
sand! Right next to her was a
slightly-built, clean-cut, dark-haired boy about her age. “You okay?” the boy asked.
Okay? Jan was
speechless, gasping for breath. How had
this boy managed to pull both of them out of that strong and terrible current
without the aid of any sort of life preserver?
And where had he come from? No
one could have been out pleasure-swimming in that ocean!
“I guess so.
Thanks……thanks a lot,” Jan managed to answer.
The boy said nothing more, but turned and walked slowly away.
Bewildered, Jan looked around for a moment, and
spotted Lee, sitting on their blanket.
Had he seen what had happened?
Jan turned back, to point out her rescuer to Lee. And a chill ran through her. There was no one walking away from Jan, not a
single figure on the deserted beach. The
boy had disappeared as quickly as he had arrived.
“I asked Lee if he saw the boy who saved me,” Jan
says, “but he didn't see anyone with me anytime, not even when I walked onto
the shore. He didn't even know I was
drowning only yards away.”
Jan says she was too young then to realize what had
happened to her. Nor did she believe in
angels and miracles. “But later,” she says, “after reading about angels and
having many miracles, close calls, and strange experiences in my life, I
realize I have a very helpful guardian Angel.
He accompanies me through my life, and I even know what he looks
like!”
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Copyrighted 2006, Joan Wester
For more stories of God’s love, check the WhereAngelsWalk website at www.joanwanderson.com .
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