Angels Along My Journey

By Andrea Gary | Anchored in Scripture/

“Do not forget to show hospitality to strangers, for by so doing some people have shown hospitality to angels without knowing it.”

Hebrews 13:2 (NIV)

I’ve carried these stories in my heart for years, never fully sharing them, never speaking them aloud. But now, I know it’s time.

Because I’ve met angels.

Real ones. Not with wings or halos, but human ones, messengers sent by God when I was most broken, most alone, and least expecting it.

I didn’t always believe

in God. At times, I even thought He had turned His back on me. But somehow, He kept showing me that I was never out of His reach.

Here are just two of the many moments where God reminded me… I was never alone.

The Angel at 17

I was just 17 years old. I had just been raped and beaten. I was emotionally wrecked, trying to survive trauma I didn’t even have words for yet. I just needed to get away from the pain, the fear, the silence. So I started walking. I had no plan, no money, no one to call.

Then, a man pulled up beside me. A stranger.

He didn’t threaten. He didn’t question. He simply asked if I needed help. And without knowing me, without asking for anything in return, he did something I will never forget: he took me to the Greyhound bus station and bought me a ticket to Washington, D.C.

That moment, that man saved my life.

When I arrived in D.C., another man, another stranger, was there. He was a cab driver, and just like the first, he expected nothing. He drove me where I needed to go, safely, freely, and without judgment. They were both angels. Not because of how they looked, but because of when they showed up and what they did.

I didn’t ask for them. But God sent them.

The Angel in Silence

Years later, as a grown woman, I was living a completely different life… but still fighting battles.

I was a mother. A traveling respiratory therapist. My husband was battling drug addiction. I had just started a new job, but life at home was chaotic.

No car. There was no stable way to get to my new job. I had a car, but he had been arrested while using it. I had no way home from the job I had just started and no idea where I lived in that unfamiliar place. I didn’t know where my car was located or how to retrieve it. I had no way to work the next morning.

I was stranded mentally, emotionally, and physically.

Then God sent another angel.

The next day, when I tried to ride a bike to work, in an unfamiliar area, uphill, and exhausted, another angel showed up.

A man pulled up beside me in a car. He didn’t say a word. He placed my bike in his truck and waited for me to get in.

I got in. I wasn’t afraid. I was at peace.

Because I knew him, not in this world, but in my spirit. He looked familiar in a way that only heaven could explain.

He got me to work. Quietly. Gently. And then he disappeared.

Another silent miracle.

Still not knowing how to get to my home and miles away, God sent another angel on the second day in the form of a coworker I never saw again, to give me a ride home, to a house I did not know how to reach.

No questions asked. No judgment. Just kindness, divine timing, and mercy.

That coworker was an angel in disguise, someone God placed right there, right then, to help me find my way when I didn’t even know where I was going.

No expectations. Just a ride and a blessing.

God Sent Them Because He Knew...

He knew I would need help long before I could even call His name. He knew I was a true child of Israel, even when I didn’t know who I was.

He knew that one day I would tell this story… and it might give someone else hope.

I didn’t find God. God found me.

And He sent help.

Again and again.

Reflect & Share

• Have you ever met someone who felt like they were sent just for you, in the right moment?

• Do you believe that some strangers aren’t strangers… but angels on assignment?

You’re not alone.

God sees you.

He knows what you need, even before you know how to ask for it.

Sometimes angels show up in silence.

Sometimes they speak.

But every time… they are evidence that you are loved and never forgotten.