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document.write('<h2>Kellie Comes Home</h2><p><strong><em>by <a target="_blank" href="http://www.joanwanderson.com/"><font color="#00000');
document.write('0">Joan Wester Anderson</font></a></em></strong></p><p>Many people ask their angels for help during difficult moments. ');
document.write(' But sometimes angels act when we aren\'t expecting it at all.</p><p>Several years ago, while living in Mobile, Alabama,');
document.write(' Rhonda and John Christie tucked their two-year-old daughter, Kellie, into bed, and checked her again before they went t');
document.write('o sleep.  Hours later, both were awakened by the insistent ringing of the doorbell.</p><p>John bolted out of bed. "Who ');
document.write('could that be?" he muttered, glancing at the clock.  It was almost two a.m.  Curious and concerned, Rhonda followed him ');
document.write('to the front door, watching as he flung it open.</p><p>A young man in cut-off jeans and a white t-shirt stood there, a ');
document.write('bike propped behind him.  In his arms was their pajama-clad daughter, holding her favorite doll and, incredibly, her lit');
document.write('tle red rocking chair.  Kellie had been sleeping soundly the last time they\'d checked.  How had she ended up outside in ');
document.write('the arms of a stranger?</p><p>"I think I must have freaked out for a moment," Rhonda recalls.  "I couldn\'t believe what');
document.write(' I was seeing."</p><p>John was equally shocked.  "Where did you get our daughter?" he demanded, grabbing the two-year-o');
document.write('ld out of the young man\'s arms.</p><p>"I found her walking down Main Street, carrying her doll and that little chair," ');
document.write('the stranger answered calmly.  "She must have gotten out of your house somehow."</p><p>Rhonda gasped.  Main Street was ');
document.write('almost two miles from their home, a very busy and dangerous area.  Kellie could have been hit by a car or injured -- or ');
document.write('worse.  Rhonda couldn\'t bear to think about it.</p><p>She looked more closely at the young man.  He was beautiful, she ');
document.write('realized, with blond curly hair and eyes full of wisdom -- eyes that seemed to look right into her soul.</p><p>John wan');
document.write('ted more details.  He turned and placed Kellie in Rhonda\'s arms.  But when they turned around to question the stranger, ');
document.write('he was gone.  And so was the bicycle.  "Our street was long and straight, and we should have heard or seen him riding aw');
document.write('ay on his bike," Rhonda says.  "But although we went outside, we saw no trace of him."  Kellie\'s rescuer had simply vani');
document.write('shed.</p><p>Rhonda and John discovered an unlocked back door, where Kelly had surely gotten out.  They spent the remain');
document.write('der of the night giving thanks to God for bringing their toddler safely home.  It was only later that another question e');
document.write('merged: Kellie was too little to tell anyone her specific address.  How had the young man known where to bring her?</p>');
document.write('<p>"It was only a moment\'s encounter, but it left its mark on our family," Rhonda says.  "I know that angels are real."<');
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