I will just tell a few of my expeiriences with angels. I am a climber, have been as long as I can remember. I have had three unroped falls (which is why I always climb with gear now). I was about 13 or 14 and I wanted to climb this tree to get to a tree-house. We were never allowed up there, it was above the two-story houses, and my Mom forbade it. Anyway, I get like 3/4 of the way up, and I just fell. Half a second later, I am still in the tree, shaking like he**, wondering what the heck happened. Two years later, I was traversing a stretch of rock on Blue mountain, and the same thing happened. I slipped, and somehow stayed on the rockface. After I could breath again, I downclimbed, and got off the mountain. A year after that, I was on Mt Tammany at the Deleware Water Gap, and the same thing happened. (I am trying to keep it short). Important thing is that 1. My reflexes are not that good 2. I am a lousy climber! 3. Angels exist, or I would have bounced 800 feet into the deleware river. 4. I never free climb anymore...I dodged the 3 strike rule!
Eamon
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"I care not whether I die tomorrow or next year, if only my deeds live after me." -Cuchullain
"Bíodh roinnt de sin agat!"
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