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MY GUARDIAN ANGEL

I KNOW THAT THE LORD ASSIGNED A GUARDIAN ANGEL TO ME THE MOMENT I WAS BORN AND THE REASON I KNOW THIS IS I WOULD HAVE NEVER MADE IT TO BE SEVENTY YEARS OLD WITHOUT HER.

AT THE AGE OF TWO I HAD PNEUMONIA. THIS WAS IN 1934 AND MANY CHILDREN DIED FROM PNEUMONIA BACK THEN. BUT MY GUARDIAN ANGEL BROUGHT ME THROUGH IT.

I WAS IN A BOAT WITH MY DAD ON CADDO LAKE WHEN THE BOAT TURNED OVER AND I HAD TO DOG PADDLE OVER TO A CYPRESS TREE. DAD WAS TRAPPED UNDER THE BOAT FOR JUST A MINUTE AND I WAS ON MY OWN. I DIDN’T KNOW HOW TO SWIM BUT MY ANGEL WAS THERE TO SEE THAT I MADE IT TO THAT TREE. THAT WAS WHEN I WAS THREE YEARS OLD.

AS I GREW OLDER I WAS AROUND GUNS AND HAD GUNS OF MY OWN BUT I NEVER WAS INVOLVED IN AN ACCIDENT WITH A GUN. THE ONLY WAY I CAN EXPLAIN THIS IS MY ANGEL TAKING CARE OF ME.

I MET JOHNNIE, MY HIGH SCHOOL SWEETHEART, IN A MOST UNUSUAL WAY. I WAS WORKING AT A GROCERY STORE AFTER SCHOOL AND ON SATURDAYS. I HAD AN OLD CAR AND THIS KID THAT WORKED THERE ON SATURDAYS HAD A GIRL FRIEND THAT LIVED AT EAST MOUNTAIN. HE KEPT TELLING ME HE WOULD GET ME A DATE WITH HIS AUNT IF I WOULD DRIVE AND WE COULD DOUBLE DATE.

WELL I FINALLY SAID YES AND HE WAS SUPPOSED TO SET EVERYTHING UP FOR OUR DOUBLE DATE. WHEN THE NIGHT ROLLED AROUND HE AND I DROVE TO HIS GIRL FRIENDS HOME. I SAT IN THE CAR WHILE HE WENT IN AFTER HER. A LITTLE WHILE LATER HE CAME OUT BY HIMSELF AND SAID HER DADDY WOULDN’T LET HER GO. BUT THAT’S A WHOLE NOTHER STORY FOR A DIFFERENT TIME

SO OFF WE DROVE TO GET HIS AUNT, MY DATE. WE GOT TO THE HOUSE AND HIS AUNT HAD FORGOTTEN ALL ABOUT OUR DATE. SHE HAD BEEN WORKING IN THE GARDEN WHEN WE DROVE UP AND WE HAD TO WAIT FOR HER TO TAKE A BATH AND GET READY BEFORE WE COULD GO. I FOUND OUT SHE WAS SIX MONTHS YOUNGER THAN ME. HOW CAN YOU BE AN AUNT TO A 15 YEAR OLD KID WHEN YOU’RE ONLY 17 YOURSELF?

ANYWAY MY ANGEL WAS AT WORK AGAIN. AFTER SEVEN MONTHS WE WERE MARRIED. THEN NINE MONTHS LATER WE HAD A LITTLE GIRL. BEING MARRIED AND WITH A CHILD KEPT ME FROM BEING DRAFTED AND GOING TO KOREA. SEVERAL OF THE BOYS I GRADUATED WITH WERE DRAFTED AND HAD TO GO. SOME OF THEM NEVER CAME BACK.

SO NOW AS A FAMILY MAN I HAD TO MAKE A LIVING FOR MY WIFE AND CHILD. BY CHANCE I WENT TO THE NEW GENERAL MOTORS PLANT IN ARLINGTON AND PUT IN AN APPLICATION. THEY HIRED ME. ON LOOKING BACK AT THIS I DON’T THINK IT WAS BY CHANCE THAT I WENT TO THE PLANT TO APPLY FOR A JOB AT ALL. I THINK IT WAS MY GUARDIAN ANGEL AT WORK AGAIN.

I SPENT TWENTY YEARS WORKING AT THE PLANT. I STARTED AS AN ASSEMBLER IN THE BODY SHOP. THEN TRANSFERRED TO WELDER AND SOON MADE LEAD MAN. AFTER THAT I TRANSFERRED INTO THE SECURITY DEPARTMENT. GENERAL MOTORS HAD A POLICY THAT THEY NEVER TOOK AN HOURLY MAN INTO SECURITY. I WAS THE FIRST MAN IN THE WHOLE COOPERATION TO EVER DO THAT. WHILE THERE I MADE THE RANK OF SERGEANT.

FROM THERE I WENT TO THE INSPECTION DEPARTMENT AND WAS ASSIGNED TO ROAD TEST THE NEW CARS. BOY WAS THAT A PLUM OF A JOB. THEN I WAS DRAFTED INTO THE PAINT SHOP AS A SUPERVISOR. IN TIME I WAS PROMOTED TO GENERAL SUPERVISOR OF THE PAINT SHOP. I HAD TWELVE SUPERVISORS AND 22O HOURLY MEN WORKING FOR ME, AND ME JUST AN OL’ COUNTRY BOY FROM EAST TEXAS WITH NO EDUCATION. CAN YOU SEE THE HAND OF MY GUARDIAN ANGEL IN THIS? I SURE CAN.

IN 1974 I WAS DIAGNOSED AS A VICTIM OF MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS AND AFTER A YEARS SICK LEAVE THE PLANT MEDICALLY RETIRED ME. I HAD MY FULL RETIREMENT BENEFITS AND SOCIAL SECURITY. SO I WAS OK AS FAR AS MONEY GOES.

I SOON DISCOVERED THAT IF I BROKE MY DAY INTO TWO HALVES I COULD STILL DO A LOT OF THINGS. I SOON DEVELOPED A PATTERN OF BEING ACTIVE IN THE MORNING. THEN TAKING A SIESTA AFTER LUNCH FOR TWO OR THREE HOURS I COULD BE ACTIVE AGAIN FOR SEVERAL HOURS. OTHER THAN THIS MY ONLY LIMITATIONS WERE A WEAKNESS OF MY LEGS.

NO LONGER BEING TIED TO A TIME CLOCK I WAS ABLE TO DO SO MANY THINGS I WOULD NOT HAVE BEEN ABLE TO IF I STILL HAD TO GO TO WORK.

THINGS LIKE GOING TO THE HUNTING LEASE IN LLANO COUNTY IN CENTRAL TEXAS FOR A WEEK OR TWO FOUR OR FIVE TIMES A YEAR. I HUNTED ON THAT LEASE WITH SEVEN OTHER FRIENDS FOR 27 YEARS. WE HAD A YEAR ROUND LEASE AND WE COULD GO ANYTIME DURING THE YEAR WE WANTED TO. THERE WERE SEVERAL TANKS ON THE LEASE THAT HAD GOOD FISHING IN THEM. WE ALSO HAD A CABIN THAT WE STAYED IN THAT WAS AIR CONDITIONED.

DURING THIS TIME IS WHEN JOHNNIE AND I WOULD STAY AT CADDO LAKE FOR ANYWHERE FROM A WEEK TO A MONTH AT A TIME. WE ALWAYS STAYED AT MRS. TUCKER’S CAMP AND BECAME VERY GOOD FRIENDS WITH HER. SHE WOULD LET US HELP HER AROUND THE CAMP FOR OUR RENT.

ONE TIME MRS. TUCKER CALLED US AND ASKED IF WE WOULD COME DOWN AND TAKE CARE OF HER CAMP WHILE SHE WENT TO MAYO CLINIC IN MINNESOTA TO HAVE SURGERY FOR CANCER. OF COURSE WE SAID YES. WE WERE THERE THREE MONTHS THAT TIME. MY ANGEL WAS THERE AGAIN.

OVER THE YEARS I HAD MANY EXPERIENCES ON CADDO LAKE. SOME GOOD AND SOME NOT SO GOOD, BUT I ALWAYS MANAGED TO BE SAFE AND I DID HELP A LOT OF PEOPLE ALONG THE WAY. I CAUGHT TONS OF FISH OVER THE YEARS AND GAVE LOTS OF THEM AWAY. I ATE MY SHARE OF THEM ALSO. BUT I NEVER SOLD A ONE.

NOW I SIT HERE IN MY HOUSE IN ARLINGTON AND PLAY WITH MY COMPUTER. I KNOW THAT MY GUARDIAN ANGEL HAS TO BE HAPPIER BECAUSE HER JOB IS SO MUCH EASIER THAN IT USE TO BE.

I KNOW THAT WHEN IT COMES MY TIME TO PASS ON AND MY GUARDIAN ANGEL RETURNS TO THE LORD, SHE WILL BE TOLD “WELL DONE, THOU TRUE AND FAITHFUL SERVANT.”

I ONLY HOPE I CAN HEAR THE SAME WORDS.

 

  BY LOREN MOORE

COPYRIGHT 2003

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