Flashbacks

Often during a days activities I come across something that will trigger thoughts of a thing that happened in the past. Today I was taking a walk and was thinking about being thankful for life and how I have been saved from so many accidents that could have been a lot worse then they were.

It has been really icy and extremely cold and I was having thoughts of falling and breaking something , being 76 I don't heal as fast as I used to. It caused me to remember when I was 16 and working in the hay  field stacking hay in big hay stacks. I was on top of the stack  tromping around and compacting the hay that had just been set on top of the stack. Somehow I got too close to the edge and slipped off falling about 15 feet onto the forks of the tractor lift. Luckily the forks were horizontal and when I landed It knocked the breath out of me and fractured the femur bone in my leg. I didn't think I had broken anything but I knew it hurt really bad and that I could still walk on it. I just wrapped my leg up real good with some duct tape the farmer had  and finished out the day. Since I could walk I never went to the doctor I just let it heal naturally. As I thought about that incident I realized how it could of been a lot worse and then another flashback came to mind.

Just a couple of years earlier after a church service one of the elderly ladies invited me over for lunch. I was a shy teenager from a poor family with no fatherly figure to guide me. She had a compassionate heart and felt the need to help any way she could. After lunch we had a heart to heart talk and she asked if she could pray for my future life. I will never forget how she put her arms around me and asked GOD to place angles around me for the rest of my life.
I have flashbacks like this all the time and I instantly thank God that he heard her prayer and has assigned angles around me for all these years as my protector.
How much does God's saints mean to you?