An Unseen Angel Saved My Brother

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This story is about the time I didn’t see an angel.

I was about 18 years old and living in Nebraska at the time. That day, I was with my brother, John. We were driving over to see a man who owed John some money. John didn't know the man very well, and I'd never met him before. We were definitely not prepared for what happened next.

We pulled up in front of this trailer house. We went to the door and when John knocked, a big man opened. He was really mean-looking, but he was the guy my brother had loaned money to. Not a good idea!

When John told the man he'd come to collect on the loan, instead of paying up, that big man flew out the door, knocked my brother down on the ground, and jumped on his chest. Then he started pummeling him in the face.

That man was so big and mean, there was nothing I could do to stop him, and he wasn’t stopping on his own. I was afraid that man was going to kill my brother!

I did the only thing I could think of doing. I called out, “Jesus, help us!”

It was the craziest thing. I don't how else to explain it, but it was like watching a cartoon shown backwards! Immediately, that big man sprung up off my brother like somebody jerked him up from behind! He was so mad, he kept trying to fight, but his arms were pinned behind him.

Then he started yelling, “Let me go! Let me go! Let me go!” And he kept struggling, trying to pull his arms around in front of him, but he couldn’t do it.

As strange as it was to see that big man struggle to get free with no one behind him, I and my brother wasted no time in getting out of there. John got up real quick off the ground. Then we ran for the car and got out of there as fast as we could.

We didn't see an angel that day, but we definitely saw what he did. I can still see the way he jerked that man off my brother and pinned his arms back. That angel protected my brother from getting seriously hurt or even beat to death.

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 Elece Hollis is an author, photographer, and blogger. Her love for God, family, animals, and nature permeates everything she does. She and her husband run Holliswood Farms in Boynton, Oklahoma.