{"id":28245,"date":"2019-09-25T15:54:02","date_gmt":"2019-09-25T15:54:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/?p=28245"},"modified":"2019-09-25T15:54:02","modified_gmt":"2019-09-25T15:54:02","slug":"backup-angels-at-the-grand-canyon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/backup-angels-at-the-grand-canyon\/","title":{"rendered":"Backup: Angels At The Grand Canyon"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Grand Canyon is as dangerous \u2014 as daunting \u2014 as it is beautiful.<\/p>\n

More than two decades ago, Al Holiday of Hartland, Michigan, took his family on a vacation to Grand Canyon National Park.<\/p>\n

Now, if you\u2019ve been there, you know a few things. One is that the size and beauty exceed your expectations. It can\u2019t be exaggerated. Another: there are sheer drop and warning signs not to go beyond the fence rails or leave the path (when there are no rails). People die each year doing just that.<\/p>\n

Holiday brought along his 14-year-old sister Janie. At a lookout point, despite the warning signs, Jamie climbed through the railings to get a good photograph of the canyon floor. She took just a few steps and started shooting pictures when her feet slipped from under her and she fell.<\/p>\n

A horrifying moment. She was sliding to certain death \u2014 when her body, for no known reason, simply stopped sliding down the steep gorge.<\/p>\n

There was nothing I did to stop me,\u201d she recounts.<\/p>\n

There was sheer panic above, in her family. They only heard her scream. They could see her and assumed she had fallen a thousand feet (or more) to the bottom. Out of their sight, she was just stuck there on a steep embankment, with the bottom of the canyon far below. Every time she moved \u2014 tried to squirm her way up \u2014 she started to slip.<\/p>\n

Terrifying is not the word for it. \u201cI just stayed there,\u201d she recalls, \u201cand wondered: how am I supposed to get back up?’\u201d<\/p>\n

Desperate, she still tried to push herself up, but could get no footing. There was no way to do it alone.<\/p>\n

She has no idea how it happened, but the next thing she knew, she found herself back at the top.<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t remember moving up,\u201d she says. \u201cBut I knew something strange had happened.\u201d<\/p>\n

A possible explanation materialized when she got home and told her mother what had happened.<\/p>\n

At the exact moment she was hanging for her life on the side of a cliff, her mom, 1,500 miles away, experienced a powerful premonition. \u201cI knew that Jamie was going to die,\u201d she says.<\/p>\n

As quickly as the panic rose in her did a sudden feeling of peace come over her. \u201cI didn\u2019t even know where they were.\u201d<\/p>\n

Years later, she traveled to the part of the canyon where her daughter nearly died. \u201cAnyone who looks over that ledge knows there\u2019s no way to ever get back to the top.\u201d It was as if an angel had pushed her upward. \u201cFrom that time on I felt safe always.<\/p>\n