Did angels intercede to save Reagan's life?

WorldNetDaily.com ^ | March 11, 2004 | Mary Beth Brown

[Momaw Nadon]

Book details 2 encounters in near-death experiences

Twice President Reagan faced life-threatening experiences and twice he had encounters with angelic beings who comforted him and helped pull him through his medical crises, says a new book, "Hand of Providence: The Strong and Quiet Faith of Ronald Reagan," by Mary Beth Brown.

As Reagan was fighting for his life after being shot by John Hinckley March 30, 1981, he was having trouble breathing. His skin had turned so pale, Nancy Reagan remembers, "He was the color of paper – just as white as a sheet, with dried blood around his mouth."

Reagan later recalled looking up from the gurney and praying. Half-conscious, he realized someone was holding his hand.

"It was a soft, feminine hand," he writes in his autobiography, "An American Life." "I felt it come up and touch mine and then hold on tight to it. It gave me a wonderful feeling. Even now I find it difficult to explain how reassuring, how wonderful, it felt."

Despite great efforts to find out who was holding his hand, no one in the hospital could help the president.

Reagan's children believe those mysterious nurses that helped pull their father through this life-threatening ordeal were angels.

"Patty believes they were angels, and so do I," said Michael Reagan, who wrote the foreword to "Hand of Providence."

The president had experienced a similar event when he was critically ill with viral pneumonia many decades before. He had been working on a movie with Shirley Temple when he became gravely sick.

In his autobiographical book, "Where's the Rest of Me?" he described days and nights of shivering with chills and burning with fever. His temperature kept rising, and it was difficult to breathe.

"Finally I decided I'd be more comfortable not breathing," recalled Reagan. "I don't know what time of night it was when I told the nurse I was too tired to breathe. 'Now let it out,' she'd say. 'Come on now, breathe in once more.'"

This went on all night, and Reagan says he decided to keep breathing out of courtesy to the nurse.

Once again, despite his efforts to thank the mysterious nurse, Reagan could never locate her. This led family members to consider other possibilities – such as angelic visitations.

In "Hand of Providence," Brown makes the case that the secret ingredient to Reagan's astonishingly successful presidency, never before explored fully in print, is his deep Christian faith.

Reagan is considered the most popular of modern presidents, according to recent opinion polls. And yet, to most biographers the man is still an enigma.

This is because, as Brown shows, no one has ever focused on the 40th president's faith. "Hand of Providence" explores the life and personality of Ronald Reagan by focusing on his deeply felt Christian beliefs, and showing how it was faith that guided Reagan along his distinguished career and led him to his unprecedented success.

With the support of Ronald Reagan's own words and writings and first-hand interviews of his family, friends, and co-workers, Brown weaves a magnificent story of Reagan's strong devotion to God. It is a story that will not only inspire Christians to enter public service and allow their faith to motivate all their actions, but also, according to the publisher's description, "help point others to the Cross of Jesus Christ – a cause that was near and dear to President Ronald Reagan's heart."

After the assassination attempt on his life in 1981, Reagan said publicly that the rest of his life belonged to God. At 93, he is America's longest-living president.

[Consort]

Perhaps....perhaps....

Nah, it doesn't have the ring of truth to it. I'll go with reply #17 for the time being.

[bert]

No

[bert]

No

[Conspiracy Guy]

Those passages are why I live each day without fear of the mortal world.

I am seldom down for longer than the minute it takes me to catch myself and ask His forgiveness for being weak.

Some people who see my attitude say I live in denial. I repsond that I live with the knowledge that when my time comes, I'll go to Him gladly.

I am only 50 but if He calls me tomorrow, I will go to Him with a smile and a full mortal life behind me.

CG

[Conspiracy Guy]

Those years made me stronger in the flesh and the soul. I did not serve the Clintons, they served me. Poorly they served but serve they did.

It's a mind set and total lack of fear in the mortal life.

CG

[Conspiracy Guy]

I won't talk about the voices. You must be cautious which ones you listen to. As far as the lottery goes, God is probably wondering how you expect to win if you don't buy the ticket! ; )

CG

[Pahuanui]

Did angels intercede to save Reagan's life?

In a word: no.

[Conspiracy Guy]

President Reagan is one of the most blessed men that I have known. But he is in my prayers.

CG

[Zeroisanumber]

Shock and a lack of oxygen to the brain can induce all sorts of interesting hallucinations.

[Consort]

Those years made me stronger in the flesh and the soul.

And they made the nation weaker, morally and otherwise.

[pankot]

Interesting about the blue light. I didn't mention it but there where several blue lights moving around in the dark ICU that night. I remember being puzzled because they were around me...

[bootless]

If you ever have a long period for typing, I would like to hear more. I'm sure that others here would, too.

Me, too. CG - beautiful poem!

[Freedom2specul8]

This about made me cry...Thank you for posting..

[hershey]

You know, I've told myself just that...I have to buy a ticket to win the lottery.

[Luke21]

I just had a near death the other day. I've had pneumonia, a bad case, and I thought I was done. My wife was sleeping next to me and put my hand on her so she would feel my love as I passed.

Since then, my life has become full of joy. I understand what President Reagan felt. He was a very great man. I still love and respect him as one of the greatest and heroic figures of history.

[Conspiracy Guy]

Yes it did. But our mission is to change that and not to dispair in it.

God Bless

CG

[Conspiracy Guy]

Blue light, soft but brilliant was there in both my experiences.

CG

[Conspiracy Guy]

Thanks

[power2]

He also appoints rulers over us. God appointed President Reagan and I believe he fulfilled God's expectation and purpose for this nation.

If He appoints rulers over us, how do you explain Clinton? I tend to believe it the people of a nation follow His Word and guidance, we get the rulers He desires (like Reagan); otherwise, we end up with people like Clintor.

[power2]

He also appoints rulers over us. God appointed President Reagan and I believe he fulfilled God's expectation and purpose for this nation.

If He appoints rulers over us, how do you explain Clinton? I tend to believe it the people of a nation follow His Word and guidance, we get the rulers He desires (like Reagan); otherwise, we end up with people like Clintor.