The Saint

Winnie Caldwell smoothed the hand crocheted blanket that lay across her legs. She then reached up and tucked a strand of hair behind her left ear. All the while she was smiling and nodding at the group that had gathered to applaud her accomplishments. It was the spry and amazingly alert woman’s one hundred and seventh birthday…and she was beaming.

To Winnie, her birthday was more than just a birthday; it was her “re-birth” day. That very day marked the anniversary of her encounter with Daniel some one-hundred years earlier. No one knew of the moment and in fact, she never consciously met Daniel herself. Never the less, she had communicated with him this very day one hundred ago and it forever changed her life. More to the point, Daniel, through a power Winnie couldn’t imagine, had brought her back to life.