One hospital told him he had about an hour to live. What he didn't know yet was how many ordinary people God was going to use to bring him back — and none of them would ever realize they'd done it.
Todd Whitehurst spent decades building a life on performance — strength, usefulness, the ability to fix anything. Then his body started failing him, over and over, in ways doctors couldn't fully explain. A shin infection on the day Covid arrived. A blood infection that put him in the ICU with an hour left to live. A neck abscess contracted while caring for his dying mother. An infection that, as of this writing, still has no known source.
In the middle of that collapse, Todd started stopping at an ordinary gas station on Bell Street for coffee — and slowly, without meaning to, found himself known there. A manager who rotated bottles nobody would ever thank him for. A woman who corrected her own name with quiet dignity every time someone got it wrong. A cashier whose two-word greeting became one of the steadiest things in his week.
None of them knew what they were doing.
Unaware Angels is a memoir about the difference between religion and relationship — about a God who shows up less often in the dramatic and more often in the people who have no idea they're being used at all. It's about a father's blindness and late-life faith. A mother's twelve-year miracle. A daughter's five miscarriages and the courtroom where an atheist attorney said, "I do not believe in God, but I saw a miracle here today." A letter of confession to a son. A fifty-year friendship walking through Alzheimer's together.
And it's about a simple, four-word invitation waiting at the end of it all: be still, and know.
Honest, unflinching, and full of grace, Unaware Angels will speak to anyone walking through illness, loss, or a season with no clear direction — and to anyone who has ever wondered whether the ordinary people around them might be doing more than either of you realize.
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Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - One hospital told him he had about an hour to live. What he didn't know yet was how many ordinary people God was going to use to bring him back - and none of them would ever realize they'd done it. Todd Whitehurst spent decades building a life on performance - strength, usefulness, the ability to fix anything. Then his body started failing him, over and over, in ways doctors couldn't fully explain. A shin infection on the day Covid arrived. A blood infection that put him in the ICU with an hour left to live. A neck abscess contracted while caring for his dying mother. An infection that, as of this writing, still has no known source. In the middle of that collapse, Todd started stopping at an ordinary gas station on Bell Street for coffee - and slowly, without meaning to, found himself known there. A manager who rotated bottles nobody would ever thank him for. A woman who corrected her own name with quiet dignity every time someone got it wrong. A cashier whose two-word greeting became one of the steadiest things in his week. None of them knew what they were doing. Unaware Angels is a memoir about the difference between religion and relationship - about a God who shows up less often in the dramatic and more often in the people who have no idea they're being used at all. It's about a father's blindness and late-life faith. A mother's twelve-year miracle. A daughter's five miscarriages and the courtroom where an atheist attorney said, 'I do not believe in God, but I saw a miracle here today.' A letter of confession to a son. A fifty-year friendship walking through Alzheimer's together. And it's about a simple, four-word invitation waiting at the end of it all: be still, and know. Honest, unflinching, and full of grace, Unaware Angels will speak to anyone walking through illness, loss, or a season with no clear direction - and to anyone who has ever wondered whether the ordinary people around them might be doing more than either of you realize. Codice articolo 9798176264265
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