Wonder
A Priceless Fossil Found and Lost
The following story is told with permission from Father Wolfgang and the Opus Angelorum angels website, opusangelorum.org.
A good friend had dropped off a tiny fossil at my house for me to identify. It was the first fossil he had ever found, so it was priceless to him. After identifying it as a small armadillo scute, I carefully put it on a shelf in my home office for when my friend returned.
I was at a basketball game a couple weeks later when my wife texted me in a panic. My friend had asked for his fossil, and my wife had spent two hours searching all my office shelves. It was not there.
When I returned home, I spent another three hours scouring those shelves, trying to figure out how I would break the news to my friend that I had lost his irreplaceable fossil.
As I frantically searched deep into the night, a guardian angel prayer card fell off one of the shelves. I picked it off the floor and put it back. A few minutes later, the prayer card fell off the shelf again. Annoyed, I put it back and made sure it was securely on the shelf. But somehow the prayer card fell off again, this time landing on my computer keyboard on my desk.
“Okay, guardian angel, you got my attention,” I sighed. “Please, please help me find this fossil.”
I picked up the guardian angel prayer card, and there, sitting on my keyboard, exactly where the prayer card had landed, was the tiny fossil. I was stunned. There was only one explanation that made sense to me. Angels truly are real.
Story by Mark, from the Angel Stories collection at Opus Angelorum. Shared here with permission of Father Wolfgang.