* Angelic Encounters - True Stories from My Readers*

Volume 1

The following unedited stories are a selection of submissions I've received recently, and in each case the angelic encounters have brought inspiration and joy, as I hope these stories will to all who read them. These are true stories sent in by readers which prove beyond a shadow of a doubt that angels come in all forms, shapes, and sizes, and exist on all dimensions - the earth plane included. I thank all these readers from the bottom of my heart for sharing these inspiring experiences!

Blessings
Zsuzsana

If you enjoy reading about true life angel and spirit encounters, please have a look at my book,

		Angels Abound: 111 True Stories of Angel and Spirit Encounters edited by Zsuzsana Summer published by Coscom Entertainment

Almost three years ago, I became pregnant with our third child. We had planned her and for Valentine's Day, I gave my husband a little box with a positive pregnancy test inside of it. We were estatic. When I was ten weeks along, I started spotting and three days later I lost our daughter. Out of all the turmoil that I have endured, this was by far the most painful. A few days afer our loss, I went into a local gift shop where for what ever reason I was drawn to a little angel statue, she was holding a baby. I bought it. Several weeks after our loss, I still was having a very difficult time. One night I had a dream/vision it was of myself holding our daughter, her name was Brenna. I could tell you exactly what she looked like to this day. I was trying to get us out of a warzone. In my dream I handed her to someone, and that person left with her. I was left standing without her. When I woke up, I felt a peace that I had not felt in months. Brenna had come to me in my dream and helped me let her go. I imagine that the person that took her from my arms was also angelic, but all I knew was familiarity with the being. I believe that Brenna made her name known to me because Jim and I had decided that our first daughter would be named Jessamine, after his grandmother, and it was her way of telling me that she wasn't meant to be here this time.

~ Stephanie R.

Here is my favorite angelic encounter:

About 6 years ago I was doing Home Care visits in the Magadalena New Mexico area really a very special place. Lots of rock formations and great beauty. I stopped at an interesting house to ask directions. It was the home gallery of a well known Santera (woman who carves Santos --images of Saints)

She invited me in to her gallery and I was drawn to a carving of Raphael that the Santera had carved out of cotton wood and painted in the traditional Spanish Colonial colors. Raphael was on a back shelf and not immediately visible but I was drawn to it. I bought the carving and brought Raphael into my Ranch house.

That night I had a wonderful dream in which the life size Raphael was patroling the house sword in hand. I have felt very safe at the Ranch house ever since then, and my favorite protection imagery is of multitudes of white angels in armour with swords and shields standing guard.

Thank you very much for all the great information on your list.

Yours sincerely,
Barbara Lux

A few months back.. (I want to say around May/June).. I was going through some more of this wonderful clearing/healing *turning off sarcastic mode* :^). The only theme of my meditation for that morning was just to be soothed. lol, to be specific, I went into it, stating that I just wanted a hug.. I didn't want advice, learning, teaching, nothing more than to be held. I had a horrible head cold that had kept me awake most of the night, and felt pretty miserable. In my personal life, I've been pretty isolated for the past 3 years, so there's not many I can turn to for that kind of request... anyway, I went into meditation with that sole purpose.

As I did my little relaxing, focusing, breathing techniques, I prepared to head for the meeting spot I go to when I connect with my guides, (its a pretty little stream, surrounded by lush vegetation, trees, mountain in the distance..etc..).

When I arrived, I spent a few moments allowing the energy to permeate.. I kinda glanced to my left, and saw a male figure.. he was squatting down, with his arms clapsed around his knees.. he was looking at me very intensely.. I noticed at that point that I hadn't ever met with this figure. His energy was very different and 'new'. I thought cool, a new guide, and continued breathing and stabilizing my visualization.

I let him know, once I felt pretty comfortable and connected.. he approached me, and enveloped me in his arms.. the hug I had needed so badly. Now came the surprise.. his arms encircled me, but , so did a set of magnificent feathered wings. I was quite taken aback, (not in a bad way), and remember mentally exclaming.. 'You're an *Angel* ???!!!!' I felt a positive response (it was all energy communication.. hard to explain, but all based off 'feeling' the responses and communication).

At that point, he tilted my head back,, and from somewhere within him, he sent a stream of very bright light straight into my mouth..(remember the head cold thing) lol.. I got a vision of what my head looked like.. and it was like one of those pumpkin flashlights that when you turn it on, has light pouring from all the openings.. He kept this up for about 20-30 seconds maybe.. , then he melted off into the background.

The rest of my meditation was pretty uneventful after that.... and, by the end of the day, my headcold was 90% gone.

Now, keep in mind, that my belief in Angels, had been strong at one point. However, it was when I was still involved in the Catholic religion, and they only know Guardian Angels, not Spirit Guides (at least in my house). Once I started to connect and learn, I found that Spirit Guides often appear as whatever we are comfortable with (ie. Angels vs. People). I had decided, that I was going to call them Spirit Guides, and was unsure if the Angels (the feathered variety) even actually existed. Well, this blew open a belief in them once more.

Later, when doing tarot readings for myself on this incident,, I asked if I could call upon this Angel, if I needed guidance/insight/support. (I still am in awe of 'his' energy.. it was powerful beyond what I feel worthy of lol). This reading, was a 3 card yes/no spread.... 3 aces means a yes.. no aces means a no, any variation has to be interpreted... (don't like those, means i have to work at the answer lol). Anyway.. when I asked him that question, I got an ace, fool, an ace. Both aces were positive answers.. I couldn't for the life of me figure out the fool interpretation in that spot.. until I focused on the image of the card. On my deck, it is the image of the Fool, kneeling, facing a light of sorts, and behind him, and Angel stands with his/her hand resting on his shoulder. I think that one set me off in tears. (the good kind)

Anyway, that has been my most recent experience with Angels.. lets hope it's not the last. That kind of warmth can get addictive ;)

Love,
COL

When I was about 11-12 years old, I was riding an excitable "green broke" (young horse with not a lot of experience or training) filly. I really should not have been riding her and bareback no less but being young myself and a very good rider, I jumped up on her to bring her into the pasture from the outside fields.

It was dusk, the time of day when my vision which has never been good was especially blurry. The filly of course was running at top speed for the open pasture gate. I let her have her head and was just enjoying the ride. As we approached the gate, a very distinct mail voice though not one I recognized yelled "duck"! I immediately with the reflex of youth, put my head and upper body down close to the horse's neck. We ran through the gate and when I slowed the horse down and returned to the gate to see who may have been there telling me to duck, I saw a thin wire stretched very taut across the gate opening.

My Dad had strung wire for an army surplus field communication system from my Grandparents house to the house of their oldest son so they would be able to talk to each other. In those days, there were only party lines in the phone system, and they wanted to have some private conversations.

If I had not heeded that voice telling me to duck I would have been decapitated. When I told my Dad what had happened he turned very pale and immediately took the wire down and placed it where it wouldn't hurt anyone.

I am convinced it was the voice of my guardian angel I heard that summer evening in Northern New Mexico. It would not be the last time I heard an angelic voice that would save my life.

Sincerely,
Barbara Lux

I'm not sure if you'd call this an Angelic encounter but it is definitely a first for me to receive answers this way. As some of you may or may not know, I'm no longer in a steady day-to-day job and I'm going to try and stay home for my kids and give my real estate career a go. Well, I'm obviously not making any steady money either right now and I'm always worried about the future. So, last night I asked my angels to give me a clear dream as to if I'm doing the best for my family or if not, what direction should I take. Well, I had this short, wonderful dream that had me going Christmas shopping but I didn't know if I could afford to do this and the 'bank' lady said sure, I could have as much 'money' as I needed that I had enough to do this shopping and not feel over-drawn. Basically, I was ok to continue the direction I wanted to take...that's the feeling I got from the dream anyway.

So, if that's part of an Angelic encounter, that's my 2 cents.

Love to all,
Opal

Northern New Mexico has very bad wintery weather, lots of snow and blizzards. I was working in Taos for Human Resources and had to be in court in Santa Fe regarding one of our cases. It really was too late to be driving back from Santa Fe to Taos especially in a snow storm but I did it any way.

The drive to Taos from Santa Fe is through a canyon with a sheer drop on one side into the Rio Grande River and a cliff face on the other, with a very narrow road in between. Sport Utilities were not yet even made and I was driving a small sedan which at least had front wheel drive.

The weather was not bad in Santa Fe when I headed out, but became increasiningly worse as I drove North to Taos. Soon, I coudn't see a thing the white out was so bad. I couldn't stop for fear of being hit by another car as there is no shoulder on the road. I just kept going praying all the way. Suddenly a male voice yelled "Stop"! I touched the brake and stopped the car gradually to avoid skidding or spinning. I got out of the car and was shocked to see I had stopped no more than three feet from the cliff edge! If I had kept driving I would have plummeted a long way into the canyon. People do all the time in that area! My guardian angel had saved me yet again!

I was so shaken up after this blizzard experience, I needed hypnosis to get over my fear of driving in snow. To this day I get nervous when it snows. I fortunately see very little snow any more, as I married a wonderful brilliant man who has a beach house in the Carribean for us to escape to in Winter.

Love and Light,
Barbara Lux

My name is Sherry. A year ago on September 11, 2001, I had a fire in my home. The only one was home was me and my two kids. I went to bed that night around 10:00 pm. At 11:00 pm I woke up to find my drier on fire. I have a lot of angels against the back side of the wall. They did not burn or anything. There was somebody watching us that night. I thank god every day to be here and to have my kids.

About 2 years ago I awoke and seen a woman angel in our bedroom I woke my husband up so he could see too but she disappeared. I pondered on the way she looked and I wanted to know why she had appeared, could it have been my deceased mother? Well three days later my son had been arrested for a serious crime and I had to go through so much but there was peace knowing that I had seen a angel so I figured it was all part of a special plan...well it was ...my son turned his life completely around...he is a strong Christian and receives Scholarship after Scholarship for his outstanding involvements in the community and he wants to become a firefighter...as I started to notice around my house I have numerous collections of Angels and firefighters scenes, picture , statues in my home...it is all part of the plan! and I know that angel came to warn me not fear what was coming that it would all be ok. ~ Janina

On September 7, 1991 the day I was only 7 years old and I had a very serious disease and I think it was a spine disorder, I couldn't remember what it was called. Anyway I was in the hospital for almost 3 weeks and the doctor thinks I couldn't even be able to walk or talk with my hand signs language. I was born deafness. And they put me in surgery for my spine disorder and they did take pieces out but not all of it. I was sitting in my wheelchair for almost like 2 months and since I was a member of a church called Bible Baptist Church at Upper Sandusky, Ohio, I was depress and angry at myself also at God, then one day it came crashing down to me that a mystery man came to me when I was taking a hike down the woods, he came to me and said "shhhh" and I was completely quietly and he whisper to me in my ears saying " be heard my voice" and my ears immediately opened and I heard his beautiful voice, I was crying and shocked... I fell out of my wheelchair and kneed myself bend over and face down, he looked at up of Heaven and saying "may we pray to thee our Lord" and he kneed down and holding me tightly and I heard a beautiful joy voice speaking in my ears said "My Child, Jenna stand up and I will heal you" the man holds me and saying "praise to Lord and thank you" and he held me up and I was out of my balance and shocked crying that I finally stood up and I can be able to walk again. The man whisper to my ear said "Jenna, my name is Jesus" You can walk because you have a gift from my Father, you are going to serve him as to others. And I quietly and he left my ears closed so I cant hear again, he left me alone in the woods... I bend down and say thank to the lord that he gave me my heal. And I walked a miles away from my home and finally I arrive there I screamed my parents to come and see me, my sisters too.. they ran out of the porch and saw me walking down toward to them, they were crying and cheering at me, my mom ran toward to me and crying "oh, Jenna who did that to you?" and I told mom that I met a mystery ma answered my prayer, it was miracle, oh mom you cant believe who I saw and his face was so beautiful and really a pure!" mom was like who? And I told her that it was Jesus Christ my savior. And she praised his name and my dad was like oh Hallelujah! My sisters were happy too, they were shocked... and ever after that I will never forget what he did to me as long as I live and forever. Look at me right now, I can walk, I can sign with my hands, I helped other people and I did all mission works for him, and I am serving to him. My life is lot better than before. Its lot of changed and improved. I am really happy with my life and I have a new fiancé who God sent to me, and we have been together for almost a year now. Then I went to see a doctor for my examine, he shocked and told my mom that the disease went disappeared and there is nothing, she's very healthy. He couldn't believe his eyes that I can be able to walk now. It's a miracle.

If God read this I want to tell him how much it really affect me and I want to say Thank you and it never gets old to me and it is not enough for me to say thank you till I die. I love you Father, and Thank you.

In Jesus' name AMEN
Jenna

My angel story is not very dramatic. It is true. I have told it many times, on the web and elsewhere.

I have 3 children, 2 boys and a girl. The girl is in the middle and was always fearless and spirited. Right after she turned 16, she ran away from home in Houston, Texas to Northern California. She led 4 other kids with her. They narrowly escaped death or injury several times and I had a hard time getting her home. God was definitely watching over her and her friends. But that is not the angel part of my story.

Nine days after she came home, she ran away again only this time she stayed in town. I was exhausted and disconsolate from everything that had already happened and was basically just surviving day to day, not knowing if I would ever see her again or not. One day, a classmate of my daughter's called me, in tears. She told me that friends had seen my daughter down in the hippie part of town, living on the street. I didn't know this girl but I have always been grateful to her (along with others). She told me, "You have to do something."

It galvanized me into action. I called a co-worker and friend of mine, a street smart African-American woman, much younger than I, and asked her if she would go with me down to that part of town and look for my daughter. She said of course she would and we went downtown first where there was a free concert. I showed my daughter's picture to several mounted policemen down there and they all said they didn't know her. A couple told me I should go home, that it was a lost cause.

Then we went west and over to the main intersection in the really bad part of town. Lots of strip joints, xxx rated video stores, bars, tattoo parlors, etc. As we turned at the main intersection, I saw a girl with hair like my daughter's sitting with her back to me on a fast food patio. My friend parked the car in the back and I walked up to the front of the building. It was my daughter. When she saw me, I told her come on let's go. She said to her friend, "Run, ____, Run" and jumped up. I put my left arm around her shoulders with her back to me. I reached over the top of her friend's head (they were both petite, looked about 12) and grabbed the end of her long hair and wrapped it around my fist and started backing up into the parking lot, yelling for my friend. As I backed up, the street people just watched and some of them left. All but one. An older heavyset man that I found out later was Italian started toward us. He looked mean. All of a sudden, he came to a halt. He got a puzzled expression on his face. He started forward again but it was like an invisible wall. He even went to one side and then another but he could not approach me. About this time, my friend got there and started helping me. I watched the man. He never moved any closer. He couldn't. The police came and took my daughter and her friend to a station. We followed and I put her in a hospital that night. I told her during her stay there about the angel. She didn't say much, just looked at me. After 2 weeks, I took her straight from the hospital and sent her to live with her father in another state. On the way, she told me about that man. She said he was Italian and no one knew his name and that everyone thought he was crazy because all he did was follow the street kids around like a bodyguard. She said, "Mom, I think your story is true about an angel stopping him because if he could have gotten to you, he would have hurt you."

My daughter is fine now. She didn't live with her father long, basically she has been on her own since she was barely 17. But that is how she wanted it. She just made a cross-country trip to escort her friend that is pregnant home to New England and then she flew to Seattle where she had a job waiting. We never speak without her telling me how much she loves and respects me and I love and respect her very much. She is sorry for all she put me through but of course I forgive her. I always tell people she is just like me, only worse.

~ birdinflight

One day when I was 15 I was at the mall with my mom and 2 brothers. I sat on a bench while they were in a store. This woman appeared out of nowhere and sat down next to me. She knew my name even though I had never seen her before. She told me that God had spoken to her and told her to tell me that even though my mom and I had been having a lot of problems lately that everything was going to be okay and that He had big plans for my life. She then said that she was going to pray for me and everything would be fine. Then, she got up and started walking. I turned to look for my mom and turned right back around and the woman had disappeared.

~ Casey

I was once touched by an angel.I had a nervous breakdown in 1996 and I was having a very hard time getting better. I had two wonderful children and a great husband. I just couldn't seem to get over the depression. I became agoraphobic and wouldn't leave the house.

Well one day after feeling sorry for myself my husband told me he was taking me out.We decided to go to the park.I stepped out of the car and the sun was so bright and there was so many people. I became overwhelmed and ran back to the car. I was feeling so sorry for myself. I was sitting there contemplating suicide.I really felt I could never get any better. Well this woman who was very thin and beautiful none of which I was walked past me and said "you know I used to be like you.I was so heavy and miserable and I never left the house. Now look at me. I am happy and God has really blessed me. You will get better. I promise".

I sat for a second and thought about it. She was right.I got out of my car and went to find her to talk and tell her how thankful I was that she had cared enough to help me. Only when I went through the park no one had seen the woman even the people in the car beside me. I knew she had to be an angel.

From that day on I fought to get out of the house and I am happy to say that I am recovered. I now have a beautiful new baby girl. God has been there all the way.Thanks for listening.

~Tracy

I have actually many angel stories. But two of my favorites have just happened this last year and a half. The first is when a pharmacist gave me the wrong prescription; I was suppose to be taking an antidepressant to help quit smoking and he mixed it up with an oral form of insulin and I'm already border diabetic that only needs to watch my diet. Well after taking the medication for a week my sugar was at the bottom and I was getting sicker and sicker. After the two weeks of taking the meds and I started passing out thinking I wasn't taking it right (two tablets daily) I started taking two in the morning or one at a time but within acouple of hours or so; I was literally signing my own death warrant . On one fateful morning feeling exceptionally bad I heard a voice (no one was there) saying look at what your taking...It got louder and louder until I knew someone was standing right behind me. I took alook and there was noone however I did look at the pill and right a way knew it wasn't what I was suppose to be taking. Later my doctor said you have someone looking out for you because if you would have kept taking the meds within a another day I would have been dead that's how low my sugar was. I've heard this voice before..very calming and reassuring but I can't tell you it was male or female it was just there and wonderful.

The second time was when my nephew (who has a black belt in taikwando at the age of thirteen) was really upset and he was all the way up the hill at a local beach. He was a good 1000 yards from me and his mom and I told him it ( the incident) was no big deal didn't help he was very upset. Picked up a three and a half inch dead branch and hit the tree at the top to take out his aggression; when he hit the tree it snapped in half and was aimed right for my head. My sister watched in Horror and I was told not to move but not by my sister who was sitting directly across from me but by the same voice I've heard for years and know to listen to. I sat perfectly still scared shitless(excuse my French) My sister said she's always believed in angels but has never seen one in action...My guardian angel litterly deflected this large stick from hitting me in the back of the head. A complete 90 degree turn from where it was headed and mind you there was know breeze what so ever It was the dog day's of summer. My sister after she recovered from the shock said she could almost see the angelic arm and hand...It frightened and calmed here like nothing ever has before. Me after I recovered just said THANK YOU AGAIN!!!

~ Wendy

When my oldest son was four we took him and his younger brother to a local animal/amusement park. Getting ready to, leave, I got very flustered because I couldn't find his sandals or sneakers. He had to wear his work boots on a day they were predicted 95 or better temperatures.

Adam was very excited about going on the kiddie rides by himself. We put him on a tractor on a merry-go-round type ride and watched as he enjoyed himself. All of a sudden there was an ear-splitting scream and the ride was shut down. The screaming continued. Adam had decided to switch vehicles and ride the fire truck instead. His foot had gotten caught in the machinery of the ride. It took the park workers what seemed like forever to take apart the ride and get his foot out. When they brought him over I took off his badly cut boot to examine a foot without a scratch on it. The man who brought him to me said" It's a good thing he wasn't wearing sneakers or the machine would have ripped his foot off. And to think I was going to put sandals on him!

I truly feel his guardian angel was watching out for him that day.

~ Rose

I WAS ONLINE ONE DAY WHEN I RECIEVED AN I.M. ASKING ME IF I BELIEVED IN ANGELS. I REPLIED THAT I DO. HE TOLD ME THAT HE HAS MANY FRIENDS THAT ARE ANGELS AND THAT HE WAS SENT TO BRING ME A MESSAGE. MY FIANCE HAD PASSED AWAY SUDDENLY AT THE AGE OF 34 JUST A FEW MONTHS BEFORE THIS, I'M QUITE SURE THAT HE HAD NO WAY OF KNOWING ANY OF THE THINGS HE TOLD ME.....HE TOLD ME THAT I AM GRIEVING OVER THE LOSS OF MY SOULMATE, HOWEVER, I MUST LET GO BECAUSE I AM KEEPING HIM FROM RESTING PEACEFULLY BECAUSE HE LOVES ME AND WORRIES ABOUT ME. HE CONFIRMED A FEW SUSPICIONS I HAD REGADING MY FIANCES MOTHER AND HER TRUE FEELINGS. HE TOLD ME THAT SHE WAS NOT A GOOD PERSON AND THAT I NEED TO STAY AWAY FROM HER. HE TOLD ME THAT SHE WAS RESPONSIBLE FOR THE DEATH OF ANOTHER MAN, SOMETHING I ALWAYS SUSPECTED. HE ALSO CONFIRMED THAT SHE COULD HAVE SAVED MY FIANCES LIFE, HOWEVER, SHE HAD A LARGE LIFE INSURANCE POLICY ON HIM...WHICH I WAS AWARE OF. I ALSO HAD WONDERED IF SHE COULD HAVE SAVED HIS LIFE BECAUSE INSTEAD OF CALLING 911, SHE CALLED THE CORONER AND LET HIM LIE THERE FOR FOUR HOURS! ONE MORE SPECIAL THING THAT MY ANGEL SAID TO ME WAS THAT MY FIANCE WANTED ME TO KNOW THAT I WAS THE LOVE OF HIS LIFE, AND THAT HE LOVED ME "DEARLY". THIS WAS VERY TOUCHING FOR ME, BECAUSE DEARLY WAS A WORD HE USED OFTEN. I SPOKE TO MY ANGEL TWO MORE TIMES, HE HAD A BEAUTIFUL WEBSITE, HE SAID HE WAS A SCULPTOR, HOWEVER, HE NEVER ADMITTED TO BEING AN ANGEL. HE TOLD ME TO GET MY LIFE TOGETHER BECAUSE MY FOUR CHILDREN NEED THEIR MOTHER VERY MUCH....I NEVER TOLD HIM THAT I HAD CHILDREN!!! HE ALWAYS ENDED SAYING THAT HE WILL PRAY FOR MY HEALING AND THAT I SHOULD BE ASSURED THAT NOT ONLY DID MY FIANCE LOVE ME, HE KNEW HOW MUCH I LOVED HIM. THE VERY LAST TIME I COMMUNICATED WITH HIM, HE SIGNED HIS NAME "ANGEL PATRICK" THE NEXT DAY, HIS WEBSITE WAS GONE, HIS PROFILE WAS GONE AND HIS E-MAIL ADDRESS NO LONGER EXISTED! HE TOLD ME TO TURN TO MY ANGELS FOR GUIDANCE AND HELP AND ALWAYS ACKNOWLEDGE THEIR PRESENCE BECAUSE IT MEANS A LOT TO THEM. HE TOLD ME THAT WE ALL HAVE A GUARDIAN ANGEL AND THAT GOD HAS ALSO SENT SEVERAL OTHER ANGELS TO BE WITH US ALL TIMES. SINCE THEN, I HAVE BECOME OBSESSED WITH ANGELS. I COLLECT ANGEL ITEMS, I HAVE ANGEL WALLPAPER BORDERS IN SOME OF THE ROOMS OF MY HOUSE AND EVERYTIME I UNVEIL A NEW ANGEL, I LET MY ANGELS KNOW THAT THIS IS YET ANOTHER REMINDER OF HOW I WELCOME THEM INTO MY HOME AND MY LIFE, AND I CAN HONESTLY SAY THAT THE ENTIRE EXPERIENCE HAS IMPROVED THE QUALITY OF MY LIFE. I THANK GOD EVERY DAY FOR SENDING ME MY ANGELS. ESPECIALLY "ANGEL PATRICK"

~ Celeste

MS ZSUZSANA, I WOULD BE HONORED TO HAVE YOU PRINT MY STORY AND SHARE IT WITH OTHERS. I DO HAVE ANOTHER STORY, ALTHOUGH NOT ABOUT ANGELS, IT IS ABOUT MY DECEASED FATHER.

WHEN MY FATHER WAS DYING OF CANCER, I FOUND OUT THAT I WAS EXPECTING MY SECOND CHILD. I TOLD HIM THAT IF I HAD A GIRL, I WOULD NAME HER "FRANKEY" AFTER MY BABY SISTER THAT PASSED AWAY MINUTES AFTER HER BIRTH. SHE WAS NAMED AFTER HIM, HIS NAME WAS FRANK. MY HUSBAND AND I SOLD OUR HOUSE AND MOVED IN WITH MY MOTHER WHILE HER HOUSE WAS ON THE MARKET, WE PLANNED TO BUY A TWO FAMILY BUILDING TOGETHER.

MY MOTHER BECAME VERY DEPRESSED, AND STARTED TAKING A LOT OF PILLS, SHE WOULDN'T SHOWER, SHE WOULDN'T CHANGE HER CLOTHES, SHE WORE BLACK EVERYDAY. THIS WENT ON FOR MONTHS. IN THE MEANTIME, I HAD A BUSINESS TO RUN AND A TODDLER TO TAKE CARE OF. I TAUGHT PART-TIME AT OUR LOCAL COLLEGE AND MY PREGNANCY WAS HIGH RISK, I WAS SUPPOSED TO BE ON COMPLETE BEDREST. I WAS GETTING VERY DISGUSTED WITH MY MOTHERS BEHAVIOR AS IT WAS A BIG BURDEN FOR ME TO CARE FOR HER AND HER HOUSE BESIDES ALL OF MY OTHER CHORES.

ON NIGHT, AS I LAY IN BED, I REMEMBERED A PICTURE THAT MY PARENTS OWNED MANY YEARS EARLIER WHEN THEY WERE IN STYLE....IT WAS A LARGE VELVET PAINTING THAT HAD LIGHTS SCATTERED AROUND IT. AS I BEGAN TO DOZE OFF, THE PICTURE TURNED IN TO A PICTURE OF MY DAD. HE WOULDN'T TALK, SO I BEGAN TO ASK HIM QUESTIONS....ARE YOU HAPPY? I ASKED, HE NODDED....WHO ARE YOU WITH? HE SHOWED ME A PICTURE OF MY GRANDMOTHER, MY MOTHERS, MOTHER. HE ALSO SHOWED ME A PICTURE OF A BEAUTIFUL YOUNG GIRL, LATE TEENS, VERY LONG STRAIGHT DARK HAIR, BEAUTIFUL COMPLEXION, BUT SHE HAD A LARGE NOSE. I NEVER SAW THIS GIRL BEFORE IN MY LIFE......THEN, HE BEGAN TO SPEAK. HE SAID "I KNOW THAT YOU'RE DISGUSTED WITH YOUR MOM, BUT PLEASE DON'T GIVE UP ON HER, SHE REALLY NEEDS YOU, AND STOP WORRYING ABOUT THAT BABY, YOU'RE GOING TO GIVE BIRTH TO A VERY HEALTHY BABY BOY.....THE DOCTORS HAD ALREADY TOLD ME THAT I WOULD BE HAVING ANOTHER GIRL. THE NEXT DAY I THOUGHT ABOUT THAT DREAM ALL DAY, BECAUSE THAT YOUNG GIRL'S IDENTITY REALLY BOTHERED ME...THEN IT HIT ME, SHE WAS MY BABY SISTER THAT HAD DIED WHEN I WAS TEN, I REALIZED THAT WHILE THINKING OF HER LARGE NOSE, MY DAD ALSO HAD A LARGE NOSE AND SHE DEFINATELY HAD THE SAME SHAPED NOSE AS HE DID. AFTER THAT, BECAUSE IT WAS SO VERY REAL, I STOPPED WORRYING ABOUT MY BABY SO MUCH AND DESPITE MY TWO DOCTORS INSISTANCE THAT I WAS CARRYING A GIRL, MY DAD WAS RIGHT, I HAD A NICE HEALTHY DELIVERY OF A BEAUTIFULLY HEALTHY BABY BOY. THIS EXPERIENCE IS DEFINATELY THE MOST SPECIAL MEMORY OF MY DAD, AND I AM GRATEFUL FOR THE COMFORT THAT HE BROUGHT ME. HE WAS ALSO RIGHT ABOUT ME BEING READY TO GIVE UP ON MY MOM, BUT HE GAVE ME THE COURAGE AND STRENGTH TO WORK WITH HER UNTIL SHE GOT BETTER. THAT WAS 18 YEARS AGO, MY MOTHER HAS SINCE GRADUATED FROM COLLEGE, WORKED AS A DENTAL ASSISTANT FOR 15 YEARS WITH THE SAME DENTIST AND SHE JUST RETIRED THIS YEAR AT THE AGE OF 72! AS FOR MY HEALTHY BABY BOY, HE'S 17 YRS. OLD, A HIGH SCHOOL SENIOR, VERY HEALTHY AND ATHLETIC AND MY "PROUD AMERICAN" DAD WOULD BE SO PROUD TO KNOW THAT MY SON HAS ALREADY BEEN SWORN INTO THE MILITARY AND WILL LEAVE FOR BASIC TRAINING AFTER GRADUATION.

~ Celeste

Messengers, a number of times have given me advice and help when I've been unsure... But one time earlier this year, "an aura" appeared before me. It appeared as a 3-dimensional wall wrapping around me like a cocoon. It could of been the arms of my already deceased husband. This preceded a fainting spell that left me very weak. He knew before I did, that I would need his added strength.

My mother "called down" to me, my husband also, a few days after his passing, and my father-in-law called down my name, months after his passing.

We are not alone....

--- Cathy

and more from Cathy:

Yes, you may include my stories in "Angelic Encounters." I can share more.

I didn't include any specifics of the spirit guide/messenger who helped me when I was 6/7 years old. The SAME tall, young man told me some things when I was 37. He was dressed all in black and didn't want to be touched. Would it of broken the "spell?" The very next day he entered the store where I worked. He needed supplies to set up his continuing science experiments. He asked if he met me before, i.e. deja vu. I said no, even though I did remember. The night before, he asked me if I remember seeing him before. I said no, at the time, and then remembered later what had happened 30 years ago. This second encounter lead me to marrying my husband, who was married twice before.

Months after I was married, a different messenger told me in the form of a "joke," that what was told to me wasn't really supposed to happen. Just that I was to marry and nothing more.

The third connection was just a note on my windshield, listing 3 scriptures in the King James Bible for me to read under the heading, "The Rapture is about to take place." I didn't think anything about it. I showed it to my husband who grew up Catholic; he told me "Rapture" in the Bible meant "The end of the world." It ultimately foreshadowed by two days, my husband dying from a massive heart attack. [We knew he had an aneurysm.] I didn't know the meaning of the scriptures until I moved back with my father almost a year later. My mother read the King James Bible, who passed away two years prior to the second encounter with the SAME tall, young man. He asked me if I believed in Angels? I said, "Yes; my mother is in Heaven." And he said, "I know." He had pleaded with me to give him a ride:he was tired, he walked all the way from the airport, where he flew in from Hungary.

My husband's ancestry is Hungarian. His loving mother passed on at least 15 years prior. My husband's fate was to, at least for awhile, live and experience TRUE love, where he had almost never had before. Me too. We gave each other a salvation to our lives;there is more to living then just existing. Circumstances led to him having his life on hold for six years and I never really had lived at all. All my senses are excited;my feelings are fully formed. It's hard to hold anything back. People who lie to themselves don't like my truth-telling. My neighbor says, "I'm too honest." For 36 years, I haven't expressed any observation. It all has to come out or it's like I wouldn't have any room in my memory for anything else. And I'm only 40.

In March of this year was when I saw THE Aura after a bad reaction to spicy food, that I had never had before-stomach pain.

And I read Angel Voice almost everyday, probably for at least a year.

Scorpion, Cathy Chorba

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