Angels are always busy

A young doctor on his way home stopped to fill in his car with gasoline. While waiting to pay, he noticed a woman with some groceries coming out of the store and slipped on some ice. The doctor left everything and went to help her. They picked up the groceries and proceeded to her parked car, where three toddlers were waiting for their mother. The doctor asked her if she needed anything else, and with tears in her eyes, she told him she could use some money to fill her car with gasoline, as she was passing through some tough times.

The doctor asked her if she had said a prayer so that God would help her. The woman did not understand what he meant, and so he continued ‘because in that case, the Lord heard your plea and sent me to help you.’ And he took out some money to pay for her gasoline and took the woman and the children for a nice meal in a nearby restaurant. The woman explained that her husband had abandoned them and she could not keep up with raising her family alone. And so she had just called her parents and explained her situation, and they were waiting for them at their home – she was actually on her way there.

Before she continued on her journey, the doctor invited her to say a prayer with him, so that she will reach her parents safely. The woman said to him, very emotionally with tears in her eyes ‘You look like an angel to me.’ But he answered her: ‘Angels are always busy, so God uses normal people like me.’