Swinging on my family’s old metal swing set was one of my favorite things to do. I loved the feeling of soaring over the earth with the cool wind in my hair. One afternoon, my sister and I were so busy swinging we didn’t notice the sky had darkened.
“Girls, come inside!” my mother yelled from the front porch. We jump off the swing set and dashed toward safety.
Kay was faster.
I followed her underneath the 15-foot long wire that connected our TV antenna to the house. The antenna sat on top of an old tree trunk.
Just as I crossed under the wire, lightening struck the tree. Electricity ran through the wire above me, and through the tree into the ground. There was a jolt, and then warm arms wrapped around me. Someone shielded me until the lightning passed.
“There was a man with you!” Kay said when we were all safe on the porch.
My mother looked me over to see if I was okay. She found two large handprints on either side of my head! They reached from my ears to the bottom of my neck, and lasted for several hours. But I had never felt any pain—only the gentle touch of a guardian angel who had swooped in to shelter me from the storm.
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