This story takes place in June of 1986. It was the summer that "Top Gun" was showing, and "Take Your Breath Away" by Berlin was topping the charts. It was one of the most romantic songs I had ever heard and it was one of the saddest times of my life. You see, I was supposed to be getting married in four months and everything was set. But, instead, I was in the middle of ending a five year engagement when all of this takes place...

Looking around, I knew it would be hours before I made it home. We still needed to talk and I wasn't looking forward to the awkwardness of two people trying to move on. I had cried myself sick, but looking back, the red flags were all in place - I just didn't want to acknowledge them.

I saw him even before I boarded the airplane when I almost passed out in the terminal. I had flown in from Maui and was switching planes at SFO, and in the middle of ending a five year engagement. You see, I was returning from my bachlorette party in Maui when my fiancé ended our engagement over the phone. Well, he didn't exactly end it, but rather gave me the "we need to talk" routine. I was the one who demanded that he not make me wait to get back to LA "to talk." Blaaahhhh, there it was out in the open... it was off... we were not getting married.

I felt sick and needed to hurry up and get back to LA. I felt like the jilted lover and he the escapee. As I stood in the terminal, the room began to sway and get dark. Feeling as if I were in a tin tunnel, I thought I was going to pass out. The tunnel was illuminated and there was a man sitting in a chair at the end of it. Looking back, I didn't think much about it at the time, but I would think about that incident for years to come.

After being seated on the Los Angeles bound airplane, a man approached me saying I was in his seat. The man insisted I was in the wrong seat even though I knew I had checked my ticket. Becoming visibly annoyed with this insistent stranger, I checked my ticket. I was shocked to find a different seat assignment on my ticket and apologize profusely to the man. Grabbing my carry-on, I got up and reseated myself. Much to my surprise, the man I'd seen in the illuminated tunnel was sitting next to me. We didn't exchange conversation for awhile. The man was reading a book, "The Jesuits and The Apostolic Faith", or something like that anyway. I don't know what possessed me to strike up a conversation with a total stranger, other than the fact that he was gorgeous. Even in the saddest moment, I could clearly see he was a "hunk of burnin' love." God knew how to get my attention, so I knew he had a sense of humor.

Out of my mouth tumbled the words, "Looks like an interesting book..." The man turned to me and asked me if I knew much about the Jesuits or faith. I answered him by saying I wasn't particularly religious, but that I was baptized Catholic, and I was not an Atheist, but considered myself Agnostic. His reply was, "You don't have to be a Catholic to believe in God."

Then, the man led straight into... "Laura, you are not sitting here by coincidence. This has all been prearranged and I have a message for you." The Angel continued to speak. "What you are going through is happening for a reason and the answers will be revealed to you when the time is right." He never said he was an Angel, but the way he spoke to me and the things he referenced were uncanny.

I am happy to tell you, five years after we had broken our engagement, my ex-fiancé did get the opportunity to propose to me one more time. I am pleased to tell you I turned him down. You see, there was no mistake. The Angel had a real message which he implied was from God, but that he needed me to trust that I would get my answer when the time was right. Oddly enough, I left that encounter with a calm that I hadn't known before, based solely on faith that what the Angel said was true.

I want you to know that I did get my answer in 1997 in the cry of a new born baby, eleven years after my conversation with that LAX bound Angel. You see, if I had stayed with this man, I would never have known my son, or my two adopted children... Thank you gorgeous Angel from God!!!!