The Divine knows what will happen and an Earth Angel awaits

Greetings!

In the evening, an old man in a motorized wheelchair, his wife, and a caregiver got into an elevator.  They were going to get out on the ground floor and stroll around the apartment building outside.

The old man was excited yet anxious.  He broke his spine some years ago, and had to use a heavy motorized wheelchair to move around.  With the spinal issue, he incurred other health problems, e.g. his legs and feet were badly swollen.  The last two years had been difficult.  He had strokes, and the latest one happened earlier this year.  For months, he suffered from constant severe pain in his back, feet, legs, and other parts of his body.  Fortunately, his condition had improved in recent weeks.  It was the first time in two years that he felt he was up to a stroll outside.

As for the wife, she was somewhat filled with trepidation.  Her husband was big and tall.  The wheelchair was old.  It did not function as well as it had been.  She was old, and the caregiver was shorter than she was.  If something went wrong, they would not be able to carry her husband.  Despite of her worries, she did not want to spoil the plan for she was glad that her husband felt well enough for a stroll.

The caregiver could kind of sensed how they felt.  In her heart, she assured the woman that everything was going to be alright, "Don't worry!  Our angels will watch over us.  It is going to be a good experience."  She came to work for them not long ago.  She did not talk to them about angels or what she believed in.

They came out of the apartment building.

Right away, the caregiver spotted a man standing in a distance.  He was waving to them with a big, friendly smile.  Naturally, the caregiver returned his kind gesture by waving to him with a big smile.  The man had a muscular physique.  She asked the old couple if they knew him.  They did not know him.  Seeing how friendly he was, they waved to him too.

It was a quiet evening.  The wife and the caregiver talked while walking behind the old man.  Soon they saw him riding his wheelchair at a speed faster than normal. His wife yelled for him to slow down, but he did not seem to hear.  The caregiver had to run to stop the wheelchair.  When the wife caught up with them, she admonished her husband.  The old man said they should relaxed for he knew his wheelchair well.

When they came around to the entrance of the apartments again, the caregiver suggested for them to go back to the apartment.  However, the wife wanted to go to an area by the side of the building where there were tables and chairs.  When her husband was healthy, they used to sit there after taking a walk, she said.
 
To get to that area, they must go through a curvy, narrow path.  The old man said it would be difficult for him to maneuver the wheelchair through.  His wife said he could make it if he drove slowly.  He said it was risky, but he drove onto the path as she said.  Within seconds, the front wheels of his wheelchair went up on the bricks that paved the sides of the path.  The wheels stuck between the bricks, and the man could neither move the wheelchair forward nor backward.  The man and the wheelchair were now sloping to one side.

The wife said, "What are we going to do?  There is no way we can lift him and the wheelchair.  It is late.  We cannot get any help from the apartment office."  The caregiver bent down to see if she could do something to free the wheels from the bricks.  As she did, she saw from the corner of her eyes that the muscular man was running very fast in their direction.  She said, "Oh!  He is coming to help us!"

The man easily lifted the wheels off the bricks.  He picked up the wheelchair and put it back to safety.  (The big motorized wheelchair with the old man on it must weigh hundreds of pounds!)  The two women watched in awe of his strength.  Meanwhile, they kept thanking him.  The man let out a broad smile before he ran away.

When they were back in the apartment, the old woman said she could not help thinking about the possible dire outcome if the man had not come to help.  The caregiver lightly patted her shoulder.  With her hand pointing upward, the caregiver said, "The Divine is watching over us today.  Let us tell the Divine how grateful we are."  Immediately, the expression on the woman's face changed to that of peace and gratitude.  She told her husband what the caregiver said.  The old man said, "Yes, we should!"  Together, they expressed their gratitude to the Loving Divine.

Love,
Q of D

P. S.  In the following 2 weeks, the old woman and the caregiver had gone over to the other building to look for the earth angel in order to thank him again.  They could not find him.  When they asked around, nobody seem to know such a man.  The old woman said her husband used to weigh above 220 lbs., but weighed 195 lbs. at that time.  With the heavy motorized wheelchair, the total weight could be near 340 lbs.  The muscular earth angel easily lifted up the wheelchair with the old man.  How often did someone you did not know wave at you from a distance?  He ran fast too.  The caregiver could not help but wondered if she had seen an earth angel or an angel that manifested in human form to come to their aid.