Daddy's Picture

Name:            Alicia
Email:           fec_lynch@yahoo.com
Location:        Virginia
Type:            Angel
Date:            Wednesday, July 19, 2000
Time:            01:11 PM

I don't know if people would consider this an angel story but I do. To make a long story short I lost my Daddy to cancer, this the most horrifying thing I have been through, and to this day I still can hardly think of it without crying. In the summer before Daddy died he had given me a large picture of him, my Mom and my daughter that had been taken at our church. Right before he died I tried to find it but could not remember where I had placed it. My Mom never remembered him giving it to me, but I was sure of it. In Nov. 1998 my Daddy died at the age of 48, ( I was 27). I was so depressed that I did not want to think of the upcoming holidays, but knew he would want me to make sure my daughter would have a good Christmas.

About 2 weeks before Christmas we decided to get our tree ( My Dad Loved Christmas trees said they made Christmas) so while my husband and daughter went to get the tree I tearfully got out the decorations. As I came upon the box the furthest back in the closet I thought I had made a mistake and took out the wrong box, so I wiped off the dust and tore off the tape, I looked in the box to not only find Christmas lights & angels but on top was the picture of my Daddy I could not find the summer before,! I can not explain how the picture was there since the box was still sealed from the last Christmas, but I knew my Daddy was with me and wanted us to have a good holiday. I always think of him when I see a beautiful Christmas tree.