Gabriel Paid Me A Visit

"The feet of Gabriel"

I had a visit from Gabriel.

And I thoroughly enjoyed it.

Gabriel came from the Grand Canyon.

Gabriel is tall, muscular, and has short red hair.

Is that how you'd imagine the arch angel? 

Last week, yep, that's what he said, last week he was at the Grand Canyon.  That tickled my fancy, LOL.

This tall service man, duct cleaner, had just taken his wife there for their 10th anniversary.   He was no angel but he was a blessing.  

Remembering what my mother had said that she had no interest in visiting Mt. Rushmore because she had seen picture after picture of it, I asked Gabriel, "You know you've seen all the pictures, wasn't that enough, was it worth seeing in person?"

He scrunched his forehead and eyes and said, "Way better, 10 times better!"

"They say it wasn't a river that made the gorge, that it was an ocean," he said.

And he got out his phone and showed me just a few of the great many photos he had.

"This one...." and he pointed across the way on the photo, "that's 10 miles across!"  "WOW!  I interjected, "You can see forever...." 

"This one...." and he showed a vast emptiness with mountain peaks in the far background, "the colors aren't showing as well, it's way more brilliant."

"This one, I looked down, and asked the guide how far down was it, she said it's 2 miles to the bottom."

And he showed me the photo attached above.

"Everyone had seen me climb out on this huge rock, with a pinnacle, here's a pic of me straddling it, I'm sitting atop the outcrop, you know, if I fall 2 miles it's plenty of time to get right with anybody."

Really?  I wondered just how much time that would be....

So, we looked it up on our phones, google knows everything, his phone said to free fall for 2 miles would take about 25 seconds, my phone said 32.  That's just half a minute!

He was amazed, "Gosh, wish I'd read that before I climbed out there!"

"You know when I went back to where my wife was, there's all these people around me, "We saw you out there, what was it like?"

He said, "I showed my wife the goose bumps on my arms and told her I was shaking to just be here!  My wife couldn't believe it, but I said you know, I've been waiting 27 years to see the Grand Canyon."

He turned to me, "Look.  I've got goose bumps just thinking about it.  That is what God did!!"

Sure enough the light-colored fine hairs on his arms were standing up and peppered with goosebumps.

"I've been about mugged twice, and safely traveled from here to California and back, and worked in all kinds of bad cities like Chicago and New York."

He turned his phone over, showed me the black backside, it read, "Jesus is with me".

"And that's what I believe."

Well, Gabriel, I believe, too. 

"I'm glad you came!"