A Little Angel Love: Spread Happiness and Inspiration, with Help from the Angels

You know I never did find the feathers that I’d worked so hard to collect and I searched everywhere at home when I got back. Are angel feathers just ordinary feathers that we happen to find when we are out and about? Apparently not! Angel feathers are gifts from our loving protectors. ‘Any old feather’ (even if they are very beautiful) just won’t do!

I couldn’t resist sharing this one last angel feather story with you.

IRENE’S ANGEL

Irene had always believed that she had her own guardian angel but she never really thought much about them until she began reading about them in magazines. Irene started to search the internet to see if she could find any stories about them, and after a few months she began to understand more and wanted to believe she really did have an angel watching over her.

Irene is a nurse at Wycombe Hospital, and one morning when she was getting her car out of the garage to go to work, she says that she could not believe her eyes when she opened the car door. On the actual hinge of the door there sat a lovely white feather! Irene felt that the feather must have been placed there as there was no way that it could have got there on its own, and it would have blown off when she opened the door.

About three weeks later Irene’s car was broken into at work. The window was smashed and part of the radio was taken. But Irene believes that her angel had been protecting her by ensuring that she was not in the car at the time. She says that it might seem a strange thing to believe but she feels sure that this is the truth.

Irene also told me that her parents and her little sister are on ‘the other side’. She visits the graves on a regular basis and feels that they are around her a lot. Irene visited the graves recently to commemorate what would have been her Dad’s birthday. Her family are all buried in the same cemetery and on this particular day, after placing the flowers on her father’s grave she found a white feather. There were no other feathers around and Irene firmly believes the feather was a sign for her that they were safe in the afterlife.

I’m sure that she is right because many people find white feathers on graves after asking for a sign, and they are comforted to know that the angels are looking after their loved ones.

Have you ever felt the urge to lie down on the grass and look up at the moving clouds in the sky above you? Clouds can be magical and so many of us are able to see pictures in the moving shapes…

Angel clouds

Nicole was sitting in class one day when she caught sight of a cloud which began to change shape rather rapidly. Nothing unusual in that—the wind will often blow clouds into unusual shapes—but Nicole was watching the cloud form into the shape of a woman, who then ‘grew wings!’ And Nicole is not the only one!

Visiting her daughter in England about five years ago, Samantha and her loved ones went out and cut their Christmas tree ready for the big day.

It had snowed the night before and she said it was the most beautiful sparkling snow. Her granddaughters had never made snow angels before so they all lay down in the perfect snow together and moved their arms and legs backwards and forwards making the shape of the wings.

As they lay down in the snow, clouds drifted past in the beautiful blue sky. Nicole thought that she saw angels formed in the clouds above them. Wondering if she was the only one she asked the grandchildren if they could see any patterns in the clouds. And you can guess what they saw. They all agreed that they could see four perfectly formed angel clouds; a reflection of the four of them lying down in the snow perhaps? And a memory the family would never forget.

I remember reading about some angel cloud experiences on the internet and decided to ask my own angels to give me an ‘angel cloud’ before the end of the day. I decided to take my camera out with me when we went on a long drive later in the day. As the sun started to go down, beautiful colours flooded the sky and I had high expectations of taking the perfect angel photo. Beautiful streamers of white flooded through the pinks, lilacs and golds as the sun began to set, but nothing felt like an angel cloud to me, beautiful though it was.

Slightly disappointed that I had not found my angel cloud by the time I went home I mulled over my high expectations of the day. Had I asked for too much? Was it not possible to create these things on demand?

I got into bed and picked up the new magazine on my bedside table to console myself with a good read before drifting off to sleep, but even I was surprised when I realized the subject of the first article I read—it was someone’s experience of seeing an angel cloud! The clock was just five to midnight. I had my angel cloud after all…just through the eyes of another!

‘A man on the street is pointing up to the sky.“Look, an Angel!” he yells.Passers-by laugh. “You fool, that is only a cloud.”How wonderful it would be to see angels where thereare only clouds. How sad it would be to see onlyclouds where there are angels.’ANONYMOUS

Orbs

‘Orbs’—those balls of light we pick up on our digital cameras—are sometimes believed to be signs of guardian angels. Associated more with ghosts or spirits, we don’t currently have a full scientific explanation for these circular lights. ‘Orbs’ are not just picked up on digital cameras. People film them moving on video tape and they are sometimes seen on photographs taken with older cameras using normal film.

What is the difference between a ghost and an angel? Ghosts are believed to be the energy forms of human beings who are moving around our earth plane. Some ghosts are human souls with consciousness and others are energy memory of souls that once lived on earth. Angels, on the other hand, are pure loving consciousness and have never been human but are directly sent from God to protect and watch over humankind…among other things!

Orbs are often photographed at supposed haunted locations but there does seem to be a difference as to when and where these images are captured. People have sent me photographs of school children under their care who are going through difficult times in their lives. These orb shapes of a variety of colours can be seen almost hovering over the top of the child. Might these be relatives in spirit or guardian angels watching over the child in need?

‘See that you do not look down on one of these littleones. For I tell you that their angels in heaven always seethe face of my father in heaven.’MATTHEW 18:10

Another photograph that someone kindly shared with me showed the outline of a woman in a bright orb of light. The photograph was taken during a Christmas dinner when the family had asked their grandma in spirit to join them at the dinner table. It certainly seemed like the shape of a woman to me.

I have a great photo at home with a large orb on it. It was taken just a week ago. My daughter was messing around and taking loads of photos of me in our living room. After taking about 50 photos on our digital camera I suddenly had an idea. I asked her to pose with her great uncle Eric (a bit of a joke as my uncle is on the ‘other side’ but a very active spiritual presence in our family!).

My daughter Charlotte posed for the camera and held out her arms as if she was hugging someone. We laughed a lot when we downloaded the images to our computer. Immediately behind her was the largest orb of light I had ever seen. Was this ‘Uncle Eric’, our family guardian angel, jumping into the photo? What is extra funny is that the orb is behind my daughter, not actually in the place where she held her arms out. It just goes to show that you can’t control everything! Strangely, nothing appeared on any of the other 50 or so photographs that she had taken immediately before my request. Was this a coincidence? You decide!

Sparkles

One of the letters I received on my website was from a lady who saw ‘angel sparkles’ in her room on the evening before her brother passed over. Was this a sign from heaven that he was being collected and taken ‘home’? People see these sparkling lights for all sorts of reasons, so don’t worry if you have seen them too! They appear during impending birth, during family parties and gettogethers and during special occasions in our lives. As with the other experiences like feathers and lights, these sparkles are usually accompanied by a feeling of great love and warmth.

Emma wrote, ‘It’s my belief that angels will appear to us in the way that we can most easily perceive them, and possibly at different stages of our development their visual appearance may actually change.’

I am inclined to agree with this statement. Emma went on to explain, ‘…during the initial stages of my development I started to see a bright blue light flashing at me which would often obscure and interrupt my normal vision. I asked many people what this might mean, but none of their answers felt quite right for me. I also came to feel very quickly that Archangel Michael worked with and watched over healers, although traditionally I know that Raphael is associated with healing.’

Emma is right but I always say that if you feel a different angel is working with you on specific tasks then you must go with your own intuition because you are probably right! I know several healers that work with Archangel Michael and Archangel Gabriel.

She says, ‘It wasn’t until last year that I learnt that this blue light is often associated with Michael, and when I read this I got the familiar tug of intuition and deep-seated knowing that this was connected. This also coincided with a period of cleansing for me and Gabriel’s name kept coming into my mind, and I also started seeing a white flashing light. Someone read to me from a book, that white light was associated with Gabriel, and Gabriel was associated with cleansing and purity, which resulted in another feeling of connection.

‘Not long after that I was doing a reading for someone who works with angels herself and as I turned to the room at the side of where we were sitting, there was a seven-to-eight-feet-tall figure, which I knew instinctively was an angel, although there wasn’t a great deal of clarity to what I was seeing, but a vague white and gold light. Over the next few months I had several more external visions whereby an image of the “stereotypical” angel with wings flashed up at me, with more clarity, as pure white light surrounded by gold. I still see Michael’s blue light flashing too.’

And again, different people see different colours (not necessarily those which are traditionally associated with particular angels.) So, go with your own instincts.

Emma believes that as we develop and our vibrations increase, the clarity grows, and also the culture within which we are raised might also determine how we perceive their vibration and the form in which they manifest, so that they are recognizable to us.

‘Angels are intelligent reflections of light, that originallight which has no beginning. They can illuminate. Theydo not need tongues or ears, for they can communicatewithout speech, in thought.’JOHN OF DAMASUS

White Shadows

Do you ever catch a swirly mist out of the corner of your eye? This might be spirit or angels—or it could be just plain old smoke! Never discount the obvious with any of these experiences because not everything is paranormal!

However, white cloudy shapes are often captured on camera too. I saw a fabulous flash of white light on a wedding photograph. It was ‘sitting’ between the bride and her mother—in the position that the bride’s father would have sat if he had not died a few months earlier. It makes you think doesn’t it? Was this light a wedding guest from the other side?

One visitor to my website sent me a photograph of one of these great shadow pictures. The family had just finished hanging ‘angel bear’ decorations on the wall at home, and taken a photograph of the new Christmas decorations. The image showed a white mist in front, which was shaped like an angel. He immediately asked other family members what they thought of the white shadowy shape and they all agreed that it looked just like an angel. I was so convinced, I added the image to my website!

Another photograph came through to my email tonight, but this photograph is a little more private so I have decided to keep her name a secret. One distressed lady was taking a photograph of her beautiful daughter who was struggling with a weight disorder and also severe food allergies. The poor girl had lost a lot of weight and the mother wanted to show her daughter how badly she needed to gain a few pounds by photographing her in just a T-shirt and her underwear. Yet her daughter is almost completely obscured by a white streak which goes from the top of her head right down to her feet and she told me that she just knows the angels exist. This lady has a special angel altar at home which she regularly uses as a place of worship, and this is a big help to her. The angels certainly made their presence known here.

You can easily create a special corner at home where you can make a little angel altar with a small picture of an angel or a little figurine and then fill your space with some special objects like crystals, flowers and photographs of loved ones. For more information about angel altars, read my book, An Angel Treasury (also published by HarperElement).

‘The proof if heaven be, or only seem,That we forever choose what we will dream!’HELEN HUNT JACKSON

Rainbows

How many people ‘see’ rainbows as a sign from the afterlife and beyond? Many associate the passage from this life to the next with rainbows, especially with animals. Rainbows are associated with bridges from one plane of existence to another.

The film The Wizard of Oz has become a classic and the song ‘Somewhere over the Rainbow’ is arguably the most popular song to come from the film. The words tell us that somewhere over the rainbow there is ‘…a land that I heard of, once in a lullaby’. It seems to express the fact that people have some distant memory of this rainbow land but can’t quite remember it! Many people feel that they are visiting the earth from our real ‘home’ over the rainbow. The rainbow has become a symbol for ‘the other side’ and people see their loved ones as well as angels coming from this place. Here is a rainbow inspired experience:

MONA’S RAINBOWS

‘In August 2002 my dear friend Mona passed away. I feel she has sent me many signs.

A few weeks later I hired some videos. I hadn’t really thought about my choices but was surprised at the coincidences I had found. One was the film Pearl Harbor, and Mona and her recent boyfriend had taken a trip to Hawaii when she found out her cancer was back. Both of them had really wanted to see Pearl Harbor.

The other movie I picked up was The Judy Garland Story. Well, I never even thought about this until she started singing the song “Somewhere over the Rainbow”.