|
|
 |
|
Sarah
Albritton
Angels Watching Over Me
Sarah Albritton: Angels Watching Over Me
Collection of Mr. and Mrs. James R.
Owens
[After Aunt Willie Bell died]
Mother moved us within a week. I remember I had a cold; mother
said that I could have had pneumonia, and [my stepfather] said
that I might die, so he went to the store and got some Black
Draught and castor oil, and mother put it in some hot water.
I had to drink that, and then I also had to take a tablespoon
of castor oil and some soda. And I was real sick then; I really
thought I was going to die. That's when after I had gone to bed
that night, she [Aunt Willie Bell] appeared to me, . . .praying
with an angel standing there, and she told me I'd be up in about
three days, and I was. [Age 8]
It's not the first time angels
have appeared to me. The second one I saw was when Robert Lee's
sister died. She would always hide her money, and she called
me, and I went to the back door. And she was standing there,
and she says, "Go up to the house and look in the loft in
a corner; you'll find my money." And that's where it was.
So her children got the money. An angel can take any form. .
. .I thought it was her calling me. [March 3, 1996]
From Angels Watching Over
Me, Susan Roach, ed., Louisiana Tech University, 1998 (see
Unit 5, Lesson 7 Resources), p. 68.
Sarah Albritton:
Angels Watching Over Me (detail)
|