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When the Everest’s went to bed on that May evening in 2002, they had no idea that the night’s events would change their lives forever.

The two teenage boys who were fifteen and sixteen years old, were asleep in their rooms as was their stepmother, Maryke. Les, the father was nodding off on the couch watching TV.

Just before two in the morning, their dog, a pure bred brown boxer, woke up his sleeping master. The dog had become quite agitated and with a very good reason. The house was filled with smoke!!

It was then that the fire alarms started going off throughout the house. Les jumped up off the sofa and quickly woke up all the members of the family who immediately fled outside.

Outside in the night wearing only their pajamas, the family watched in shock as their house went up in flames. It was leveled in a matter of minutes.

They lost everything in that house fire - well not quite everything, they had what was the most important to them and that was each other. By the Divine grace of God, all the members of the family, including their beautiful pet canine who had saved them, had gotten out unharmed.

Several witnesses the next morning looked at the pile of rubble and were amazed that the occupants had got out safely. It was later determined that the cause of the blaze was electrical.

A few days after the blazing inferno the Everest family gathered up enough courage to returned to the scene of their nightmare.

All their personal belongings had been destroyed, including most importantly the things that people treasure the dearest; something that money cannot replace and that was the treasured family photos.

Les strolled over to the general area where the living room once had stood and started kicking around the ashes. He was hoping that he would find something that had withstood the fire. He got lucky!

There, under all the ash and soot lay a picture of his Dad and even though the frame had been destroyed and the glass protecting it had been broken, it was still a picture of his Dad.

Meanwhile, Maryke was looking through the area where the garage was located. She also found a picture in the ruin; an old anniversary picture of her parents that she had stored in the attic. The picture was a little scorched around the corners, but it too was still in good shape.

The following spring after the unfortunate tragedy, the Everest family finally decided they were ready to rebuild a new house on the same property where the old one had stood.

It was on this beautiful spring morning that Maryke donned her garden gloves in readiness to replant her garden at the front of her new home.

As she was digging in the dirt she came upon something that surprised her. She found two paper Angels lying in the soil.

It just so happened before Christmastime three years prior to the blaze, her niece had sent her a card where she had placed two confetti Angels inside its folds. Maryke had stored them in a glass container and then placed them in her curio cabinet to be displayed.

Maryke had thought that they had vanished along with the rest of her belongings, but there, in the garden on that warm spring day, she found the Angels still miraculously preserved as when they had been first placed in the jar, however, the container that they had been resting in was nowhere in sight.

Let us remember that Angels make their presence known to us in a variety of different ways such as in a flicker out of the corner of your eye, in the vision of a dream you had the night before or perhaps maybe even in the gift of confetti Angels found in a garden reassuring the occupants of a home that they were being watched over.