I BELIEVE IN ANGELS
 
I have always had a love of angels and I sometimes feel them visit me, someone

dear to me will come to me when I least expect it. Some people don’t believe

 these things but I sure do.
 
Many time in my life I have seen an angel come back to see me some times

when they are passing or maybe even a long time after.
 
The first instance that I really noticed it was my stepfather’s mom. Growing up

 he wasn’t my stepfather but my uncle and at many times we would be around

his family and I grew to love his parents. I didn’t get to see my grandparents on

my mom’s side very often so it was nice to have them. His mom was a special

 woman, she raised a very large family and was always there for each and every

one of them. When she passed it was a great sadness to me as she just was a

special lady. She didn’t look special, she was a very large lady and not even that

 pretty but I loved her anyway.
 
Many years after, when my mom was with my stepfather and I left home to

 go and stay with her shortly before my marriage, she put me in a room upstairs

 that she never told me until after, had been the room his mom slept in. A couple

of nights after I was there, I was awoken in the night and she was standing at

 the  end of my bed and smiling at me. That was it, nothing but the smile. I told

my mom the next morning and she told me that I wasn’t the first to see her.

 My young brother had seen her too in that room. When my mom left my dad,

my youngest brother went with her. Bill and I had been very close as from the

 moment he was born I tried to do everything with him that I could. When I

would come home from school my mom knew she never had to worry about

him as I would take over. When she left and took Bill I lost not only my mom

 but my baby brother too, he was only two. I never seen him again until he was

about 6 or 7. I think my stepfather’s mom was smiling as she knew Bill and I

 were under the same roof again.
 
There have been many instances when I felt an angel but only a few stuck in

 my mind. The next angel I seen was mom as she was leaving.
 
The day my mom passed I wasn’t there by her wishes, she wanted me to

remember her before the Alzheimer's had taken her. It was something we had discussed before she totally went into another world. She had been in the hospital

for three weeks, and that day I decided I was going to drive to see her that night

 after work. I figured that she was holding on that long that meant I needed to go.

At work that morning I told them I was leaving for Toronto as soon as I got off

and had no idea when I would be back. At lunch, just as it was time to go back to work, I took a terrible pain in my head. Nothing I have ever felt before or since.

It hurt terribly that I even mentioned it to my co-worker, she looked at the

clock and told me it was 12:25 and we better get to our machines.
When I got that home that night, there was a message for me, my mom had

 passed at 12:25 that day. I have always believed it was my moms way of

saying goodbye, she was an angel now.
 
Another time, I recall was when my dear friend Anne passed. She had been in

the hospital off and on and it was mainly family only. Anne had beat it so many

 times that I really didn’t worry about this time. I knew she had made the decision

not to fight but I guess I hoped she wouldn’t go. I went to bed one night, and

woke suddenly with the feeling that Anne was with me and saying goodbye.

She was so at peace and herself again, no swelling, just the Anne I used to know.

 I went back into a deep sleep but awoke in the morning and wondered about it.

 I had this feeling inside me that Anne was gone.
It was a Tuesday and my girlfriend was coming for our Tuesday KFC dinner,

when she came in, she told me to sit down, and I asked her, “its Anne, isn’t it”

 and she said yes. I told her about my visit in the night and she asked what time

it was and I wasn’t sure but I had went to bed early before 10, she told me that

Anne passed around that time. I will believe I seen an angel passing by to say

 goodbye to me.
 
There have been other instances but nothing that could compare with these ones,

 they remained in my mind. This is part of the reason I believe in angels.