Angels & Journals

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#21

I think giving is great. I have given much and will continue to give, but I choose to do so in secret for many reasons.

And I think that many have made great and wonderful contributions to this forum thread.

May we all be so blessed that we are able to continue to disagree so well and well behaved.

Angel, just beware. There are many out there who would take advantage of your generousity. Just stand on any street corner and hand out ten or 100 dollar bills and see how quickly the lines form. If you advertise, you will perhaps get hit with gear wish lists, I need this and I need that. And do you have any money you can give me for my thru hike attempt or can you sponsor my thru hike. These are just a few of the “Can you help?” things you could be hit with, so if you do a journal (which could be done in taste and done okay), then I suggest no email in it, cause you could get a flood of “can you help me messages?”.

I believe that God and Angels know what we really need and supply those needs without us asking----and also they don’t advertise to the world that they did it. They supply us with what we “need” not what we “want”. They just do it and I thank them for it.

So good luck to all. Keep giving and enjoy the warmth it brings to your heart and soul.

See you out there.:cheers :cheers :cheers

Maintain

#22

Just want to say Thanks to Meadow Ed for the email. Enjoyed hearing your thoughts.
Trail Angels In Western NC

Curious Angels

#23

I have been doing Trail Magic for 3 years and can hardly wait for the fourth! Sometimes it is in secret, sometimes the hikers know who I am. I have cards with my contact info posted in shelters and the visitors center ahead of the town where I live so that IF they need assistance when they get there, I can be called or can refer them to someone else on our HUGE Trail Angel Network. When I leave a cooler, I too put a pad of paper in it so I can see who was there, but unless I meet them, I don’t get to hear the awesome stories. I am blessed by their comments and happiness to find the magic, but meeting them, it if works out that way, is even better. My life has been so enriched by the hikers, they will never know.

Either way, my contact info is there and many times, hikers in need of assistance, sometimes very serious need, have called me. The one who had a heart attack on the trail is a prime example. The one who was stuck in the Shenandoahs sick as a dog was another. Had my card not been there, getting to town at 9:00 on a weeknight from 25 miles away on the Skyline Drive would have been difficult.

Best advice on all of this…keep paying that trail magic forward, it will always come back to you…I know it for a fact!

Pam Bennett