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‘All God’s angels come to us disguised.’
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL
How do our angels choose us?
Angels are attracted to our energy and goals…like a magnet!
Do we choose our own angels between lives?
It doesn’t really work like that with angels. We each have spirit guides (more advanced and experienced souls like ourselves) whom we plan to work with during our life on earth.
Are angels similar to the spirit guides that mediums use or are they not permitted to perform this function?
No, not really, although mediums can communicate with angels in this way, they usually don’t.
Are they the messengers of God as the Bible claimed, or do they have a different purpose?
One of the translations of Angel is ‘Messenger’ but they have so many more roles!
‘Beside each man who’s born on earth, a guardian angel takes his stand, to guide him through life’s mysteries.’
MENANDER OF ATHENS
Does helping us help them? (In other words, by helping us in our lives are they paying back a karmic debt in their own?)
No. Angels are created as pure beings of light and are not thought to follow the same rules of Karma as ourselves. Helping us brings them extreme joy. It is their very reason for being.
After their present ward’s life has ended, do they become ‘assigned’ to another soul or is their task completed?
Life for the angels continues much as before. Angels are able to be in many places at one time (not being governed by our own laws of space and time), and so are helping many people at any one time.
‘Our Lord is God [alone], and wholeheartedly pursue the right way – upon them do angels descend, saying “fear not and grieve not, but receive the good news…we are your supporters in the present life and in the life to come.”’
THE KORAN
Is it true that white feathers are a sign that your angel is near?
Many people believe so. Feathers are free, lightweight and available in most places around the world – which makes them the perfect physical manifestation. Many people associate white feathers with the ‘wings’ of an angel.
When I appeared on Granada TV’s This Morning I answered listeners questions on angels and ‘feathers’ was a topic which came up with several callers and we had a lot of fun in the studio. It’s a question that I also get asked about regularly in my ‘Dear Angel Lady’ column with it’s fate magazine.
Elaine emailed me and asked why she was having so many problems in her life. She found it hard to believe that she had angels around her, although she did feel that maybe she had been led to write to me in some way.
After reading my reply and giving it some thought, she decided to invite angels into her life. On the first day nothing happened, which confirmed, she said, her belief that they had turned their backs on her. She decided to ask them for a sign like a feather as I had suggested, to let her know they were with her.
The next day, Elaine was in the supermarket shopping with her young family. In her own words, she was busy and hassled with the four kids and packing her shopping when she opened up a half packed bag to put in some more shopping. Guess what she found? A feather! She told me it was just laying there, a pink feather of the sort you might find in a feather boa. She couldn’t believe it and said there was no way it could have come from the children or been in the bag to start with. Elaine firmly believes that this was a sign that they are with her!
It was fun to receive her follow-up letter and her big ‘thank you’. But it was her own angels – and I cannot take the credit. The story was another gift of confirmation for me that our angels really are around us.
Can they prevent us from harm? Do they ever try to prevent our deaths?
It seems that they can and do protect people from death and serious accident if it is not part of a person’s life-lessons (the lessons we choose for ourselves before birth). I have received letters from all over the world where people have seen their angels, or an angel has intervened during a near-death experience.
‘He shall give his angels charge over thee, to keep thee in all thy ways.’
PSALM 9:11
Are angels around children when they are born, (those with difficult births?)
Certainly. Our angels are always around us during times of difficulty offering healing and support.
Do you think there is any truth to the idea that ancients mistook visitors from other planets as angels?
This is something we just don’t know but cave paintings include images which look a little like a cross between angels and our present-day astronauts – so you never know!
Are angels just energy?
Angels are made of light and love. Their bodies do not exist as solid flesh in our dimension. They have no need of clothes – but appear draped in cloth sometimes (for our own modesty). They do not speak with words as we would speak but transmit thought and feelings as a kind of telepathy.
‘Angels are intelligent reflections of light, that original light which has no beginning. They can illuminate. They do not need tongues or ears, for they can communicate without speech, in thought.’
JOHN OF DAMASCUS
Angel Almanac
The archangels each have their own specialities, talents and roles, although
