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A Guiding Hand

June 13, 2015 by fpdorchak

Pay Attention. To Everything. (By Master Sgt. Cheresa D. Clark (https://www.dvidshub.net/image/384328) [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons)
Pay Attention. To Everything. (By Master Sgt. Cheresa D. Clark (https://www.dvidshub.net/image/384328) [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons)
I read this short in the June 2015 Reader’s Digest (RD). I love these kinds of stories! I paraphrase it here, but you can read in on page 25 of the Your True Stories, in 100 Words section in RD:

This woman, Grace Napier, out of Greeley, Colorado wrote how she’d been leaving for work one day, when, as she was making a right-hand turn out of her yard, she felt a firm hand restraining her right shoulder. She was forced left.

No one else was present.

Grace decided to continue in that direction and take the longer route to work. There was no traffic.

At the end of her work day, she returned home and learned there’d been an accident that had occurred on her normal route to work, the route she would have taken had she not been “nudged” out of the way. The accident had occurred shortly after 8 a.m., when two vehicles had crashed. The crash has also pinned a crossing guard between the two vehicles, killing him.

Grace said she would have been in that accident.

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Filed Under: Just Plain Weird, Paranormal, To Be Human Tagged With: Car Crashes, Colorado, Grace Napier, Greeley, Reader's Digest, Spirits

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  1. karen Albright Lin says

    June 13, 2015 at 2:21 pm

    These stories always give me goose bumps, especially since I’ve had experiences along these lines and heard of others even wackier.. like about a friend of a friend who was in a fatally serious accident but had literally been lifted from the car and hovored over it watching as it happened. Was the only one in the car who came out of it without a scratch. Maybe it’s true that when our time comes it comes… and when not… it doesn’t.

    • fpdorchak says

      June 13, 2015 at 7:11 pm

      They’re so neat! And Grace paid attention to it, not dismissing it. We all have our little “trips” into the paranormal…the trick is to pay attention to all those experiences…we don’t have to know what they mean at the time, but we should at the very least be aware of them.

      Can you send some of your experiences! Would love to hear about them! :-]

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