Angels to Watch Over Us
Today’s extracts are some more angelic offerings from Glennyce Eckersley:
“Ever since she could remember, stars had fascinated Sarah. She would implore her mother to leave her bedroom curtains open, so that she could fall asleep with the stars twinkling down at her. Living in the country, with no major cities for miles, made the night sky spectacular.
One night, just before Christmas, Sarah stared at the night sky through her large bedroom window. The night was cold and clear, and the velvet sky was full of stars. With her imagination fired, she decided to get out of bed in order to get a closer look and to decide which route Santa’s sleigh would take. Shivering a little, she climbed onto the rather high window sill.
Full of mounting excitement at the thought of Christmas Eve, she gave a little jump for joy, and found herself catapulting backwards from the window sill, yelling as she fell towards the hard floor. She did not, however, come into contact with the floor, but instead was conscious of a floating sensation and gentle arms placing her into bed. She recalls that the bed was several feet from the window, too far for her to have simply fallen back into it. No-one was in the room and it was several seconds later that the bedroom door opened and her mother appeared to find out what the matter was.
Switching on the light, she came and sat on her daughter’s bed.‘Did you have a bad dream?’ she asked. Sarah told her what had happened, but her mother would not believe it was real.‘Simply a dream, darling’ was all she said. Sarah knew even at that young age that it was definitely not a dream. She went to sleep, but on waking the next morning noticed that the toys that normally sat on the window sill were scattered on the floor – proof at least that she had stood on the window sill, and dislodged them in her fall.
Twenty years later the events of that night are as clear as if they had happened recently, and no-one will ever convince Sarah that she was not rescued by angel arms that night long ago.”
