Riding with an Angel
From Chicken Soup for the Soul: Care for the Caregiver
By Kathy Thompson

Angels represent God’s personal care for each one of us.
~Andrew Greeley

About 8:00 in the evening, the phone rang. “Is Paul there?” my mom asked me, referring to my eighty-two-year-old stepdad.

“No,” I replied, “I haven’t seen or talked to him all day.”

“Well, he had a doctor’s appointment at one and he’s not home yet.”

This was a serious concern for both of us. Paul’s doctor was less than a mile from their house, so he should have been home long ago. And Paul was starting to show some signs of dementia, although he was still functioning pretty well. He had left his cell phone at the house, so that was no help.

I lived less than ten miles from my parents’ house, so I told Mom I’d run over and we’d drive around their small Kansas town, to the coffee shops, relatives’ houses and grocery stores. Surely, we’d locate him. (Keep reading)