An Angel Changed My Direction

by Franklin Enochs
(Bloomington, Indiana)

In the summer of 1970 as I drove from Sarasota Florida toward baton rouge thinking I was going to Reno Nevada about 150 miles from baton rouge on high way 10 I saw a young man with long hair standing with a sign that said Baton Rouge. It was very hot and standing out along the road with no houses in sight, my first thought was... I don't want to get involved with a hitch hiker so I passed him on by and drove about a mile when I got to feeling sorry for him standing there in the heat out in nowhere so I turned around, drove back and picked him up. We talked about God, angels and churches and when he asked me a question I could feel that he could look right inside of me as a light opened up my chest he by that could tell if I was telling him the truth. I thought boy this guy sure is strong. I was driving a VW the motor in the back and I had a small oil leak so I pulled up near a gas station right outside Baton Rouge, and I got out and was looking under my car on my knees. he got out and walked around to the front of the car standing there looking at me, and when I looked up at him I saw him not as the young long haired guy I picked up but as an angel. It scared me and I tried to look away, but he wouldn't let my...I looked at him and he smiled and said, I enjoyed the trip and I thought is that all because we talked about so many things he heard my thoughts and smiled again and said and the conversation at that moment he began changing back into the form of the young long haired man I had picked up. In his angel form he looked like a warrior angel. He had no hair his head and body was a reddish tent and if his clothing if you would call it that was all one part and part of his body. I wondered about and told no one thinking if I did they would think I was crazy. But I read in the bible the story of Samson how the angel of God came his father and mother and they thought he was just a man but as they saw him go up in the fire they then could tell he was an angel of God. God showed me that when we get into a place where we have to look up then we can see His angels for they are all around us watching over us to keep us from harm. My home was in Indiana so I headed north.