Your Guardian Angel - Kurt's Amazing Alaskan Adventure

Do you believe that you have a  guardian angel?  I do!

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        1. The Angel will guard you

 God says in Exodus 23:20, "Behold, I send an angel before you to guard you on the way and to bring you to the place I have prepared.

This posting is a story about how God sent angels to rescue my son. They became actual humans to do their job.

In the Spring of 2015, our 25 y o son, Kurt, went on a road trip to Alaska.

He snowboarded and did a lot of rock climbing along the way.

 This is the route he took, starting out from Dallas, TX. 

Somewhere in Utah

He went northbound on the Pacific Coast Highway and entered Canada. It is 2500 miles via Alaska Hwy or 48 hrs from the border of Washington State to his final destination which was Homer, AK.

        2. I asked for God's Angels... Not just one but a lot  
    
It was early morning as I was driving to work, when suddenly, I called on God, "Adonai Tsevaot (LORD of Host), please send your angels to rescue Kurt.". I thought, "Rescue from what?"  I trusted God that he would do it. That night, my husband received a Facebook message that Kurt had been stranded in the Yukon.

Yukon, Canada

It happened at 2 am when his car decided not to start while he was at a rest stop.

                   Typical Rest Stop along Alaska Highway in the Yukon (Photo Credit: 

Micaeldavialactea's Instagram image @25.02.2016. (n.d.). Retrieved March 06,

2016, from http://sixmoment.com/m/1192483260414121251_1454506364)

  
     

No Cell phone connection, Att does not work in the Yukon! No Gps. He was all alone. It was -20 below 0 and very dark.  He crawled inside his winterized sleeping bag in his full snowboard gear. 

Kurt made the sleeping bag a few weeks before the trip

He saw the most beautiful arctic sunrise; he was euphoric but had no idea he was dying of hypothermia.

  3.God sent the Angels

After 10 hrs in the cold, three cars passed by and the third one stopped. A man and his daughter rescued him. When he got into the tow truck and started thawing, his fingers were in excruciating pain. They took him to Whitehorse city, where their family lives.

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The kindhearted family placed Kurt's car in a heated garage, gave him a room with internet connection so he could send us a Facebook message. They fed him and kept him for a week. Kurt had to do a lot of research on the net, to figure out what exactly happened to the car. Together, with his Dad who is in Texas, they brainstormed on every possible cause. After much discussion through Facebook Messenger, they came to the diagnosis that the car had fuel pump failure. He ordered the part from an Audi dealer in Vancouver, and they mailed the part to him. When it arrived after a few days, he installed it himself, and the car started. 

      4.The Angel confirmed His Presence

Before resuming his journey, Kurt wanted to download music from iTunes into his iphone. When he opened itunes, this was what he saw:

     It said" your guardian angel."

He said, "whoa how did it get there? I never downloaded that. It was not his kind of music. Wow, angels must also use technology too.

Meanwhile down here in TX, I was worried that he would travel alone again. There was still 924 miles to go so I talked to God about it. Adonai Tzevaot, pls be with Kurt and surround him with your Angels!

The day Kurt left for Alaska was also the day his host family and a bunch of other people had scheduled themselves to go to Anchorage, Alaska for a conference. The lead angel (The Dad of the family) rode with Kurt while the rest were in the van.  The Angels surrounded him!

Kurt was in Homer, Alaska for four months.

Bishop's Beach Alaska

Golden Sun, Alaska

Matthew, Kurt's Friend Spinning Burning Wool

Mountain Range, Homer Alaska

Kurt found employment with a fishing boat, but he suffered a terrible motion sickness and found it difficult to do the job. He decided to quit, but the boat was already in a different location from where his car was. The only way to get back to his vehicle was to hitchhike. He walked for approximately 20 miles on the first leg. He was thirsty, hungry and tired. It was a 170-mile walk if no one picks him up. Three different cars picked him up and dropped him at certain points along the way. At one particular time in his walked, he had to get rid of some of his baggage to lighten his load. He threw them behind the bush in the ditch. He went back at a later time to retrieve them. The driver in the third car who picked him up took him to Homer, which was about 100 miles away.
Angels can drive cars too! So thankful for these three!

While in Homer, Kurt built a mini-playground for a charter fishing company. God provided a temporary shelter by staying at the site, provided by the owners. This is the handrail that he built: 

        5. Guardian Angels Are Faithful.

                         
Time to head back home. He was passing thru Edmonton, Canada when he became confused and lost in the highway interchange. 

Then he spotted a hitchhiker, a middle-aged, haggard-looking woman. He picked her up and this woman became his GPS. After she had done her job, she got off the car. Kurt went back on the right track, and he came home safely.

For He will command His angels concerning you to guard you in all your ways. 
Psalm 91:11