Stories about guardian angel

Angel of God, My Guardian Dear
to whom God's love commits me here.

Ever this day be at my side
to light and guard and rule and guide.

Amen.

 2nd October is the Feast of Guardian Angel. 

I'd like to share some stories about how my guardian angel has been protecting me :)

When I was in New Delhi, India, I needed to walk from the MRT to the Cathedral. (Initially I took the bajaj, but apparently the church was walkable from MRT so I decided to walk the following weeks) There was one Sunday as I was walking, a man approached me and kept talking to me even though I ignored him. He kept saying, "Namaste! How are you? Where do you come from?" etc etc. (around 10 minutes?) I just walked quickly and looked straight to the front and acted deaf. The thing is in New Delhi, many people tried to cheat tourists. You just need to ignore them (not even say, "Yes?" because they'll continue talking and bringing you to whatever shop that can give them money since they bring you there) Anyway, that period of time, I prayed a lot to ask my guardian angel's help. I felt peace to know that I was not alone.

One year afterwards, me and my friends went for white river rafting in Manali, India. The raft capsized and the only thing I remembered was the guide has told us to keep holding to the 'lifeline', the string at the sides of the raft. I held the lifeline, but I was underwater for quite sometime and started to have difficulties breathing. The current was very strong and suddenly I felt that someone pulled me up. It was the guide. I couldn't describe it but I was breathing very loudly afterwards, and water kept coming to my mouth. The guide helped me and my friends to climb up the capsized raft. My fear was, what if the raft capsized again? However, another raft came and me moved to that raft.

We only knew that the situation was very serious after we were all safe at the bank of the river. The villagers were watching at the side of the river. In fact, the other guide said that he knew something was wrong (this guide is the trekking guide and he didn't go rafting with us) because so many people ran along the side of the river and people were throwing strings or whatever stuff hoping that we grabbed those stuff. 

My only thought afterwards was, my guardian angel...

It's a bit hard to explain, but in life vs. death situation, there was a peace afterwards to know that your guardian angel has been protecting you. 

In the formation that I've received, they encourage us to have devotion to guardian angel, to talk to guardian angel, and to greet ours or our friends' guardian angel. When I face difficult situation in running the experiment, I pray to the guardian angel of the child so that the child cooperate =P hahahaha. There was one time when I was joking with my boyfriend, I said, "Our guardian angels must have been laughing at us." It's quite interesting to remember that even if it's only two of us, there are four of us in total (including our guardian angels) :)

I wish I could have known about guardian angel since my childhood. Isn't it beautiful to know that you are NEVER alone?  :)