{"id":14074,"date":"2026-03-10T08:59:28","date_gmt":"2026-03-10T08:59:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gpbookstore.org\/articles\/angels-escorted-his-mother-to-heaven\/"},"modified":"2026-04-13T09:34:40","modified_gmt":"2026-04-13T09:34:40","slug":"angels-escorted-his-mother-to-heaven","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gpbookstore.org\/articles\/angels-and-miracles\/angels\/angels-escorted-his-mother-to-heaven\/","title":{"rendered":"Angels Escorted His Mother to Heaven"},"content":{"rendered":"

I rolled my carry-on up to the ticket agent. At least our plane was on time. God, please help Ma hang on until we get there<\/em>. I couldn\u2019t bear to think of losing our mother<\/a> without seeing her one last time, of being able to hold her hand and tell her I loved her. But my sisters and I were 1,000 miles away, boarding an early morning flight from Boston to Atlanta.<\/p>\n

Every winter Ma traveled from her home in the Northeast to spend a few weeks with our brothers in the South. She\u2019d seemed in good health, still in her early seventies, though she\u2019d had heart problems all her life. On this trip, she\u2019d been there only a few days when she\u2019d had a heart attack, then complications from pneumonia.<\/p>\n

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