me my proof—over and over again—and I had quite simply missed it. But I’m not the only one. How many people do the same? And how much proof is proof?
If only I had known then what I know now! Imagine how amazed I would have been to discover that in the future I would gather stories of lifesaving and life-changing encounters with guardian angels.
So many people have amazing experiences that they have never shared with anyone before. They often begin their stories with the phrase ‘I’ve never told anyone this before but…’ Fear of ridicule or disbelief is a good reason for people to keep quiet. I understand that. But angels can help us so much in life and it’s good for us to know it! I am always amazed by how much our angels can do for us. No matter how many angel experiences I read, I am always stunned by their power. The fantastic real-life experiences I have been privileged to read bring me great joy—and I hope you feel the same.
Angels really do change lives and save lives. How can we recognize them? Their interaction with us is often subtle but sometimes dramatic. Not everyone is going to meet a 12-foot being in a golden light, but it does still happen on occasion. Mostly, though, angels appear just in time to sort out emergencies before disappearing into the night. They bring message of hope when all seems lost. They appear in dreams and visions and everyday life. Who knows, they might be the stranger at the bus stop or even merge briefly with your pet cat. Angels are everywhere and you could well have met one without even knowing it. Remember the saying ‘Be not forgetful to entertain strangers, for thereby some have entertained angels unawares.’
I’ll give you a little clue, though. Angels often appear with the lightest of blonde hair and piercing blue eyes, even if they are dressed as humans! You might want to watch out for that. Their clothing can also be a dead giveaway. They don’t seem to understand fashion at all and often wear what we would consider inappropriate clothing for the time of year or the era. There is usually something that doesn’t look quite right!
So many people have written to tell me about their own lifesaving experiences with both their human ‘family’ of ‘angels’ and the winged variety. Angelic contact really is going on all around us. Children, too, have amazing stories to tell of their own contact with loved ones who have died and their own foresights into the future and insights into the past. There is so much magic in our lives and so many of us are guilty of walking around with blinkers on. We miss things that are right in front of our nose.
I want to open your eyes to the wonders that are all around you. So many children want to be like Harry Potter and perform magic. So many of us want to live in a world where miracles exist. But what if I told you that we already can and they already do?
I know that you’ll enjoy the angelic wisdom, messages and amazing lifesaving adventures in this book. By the end you’re sure to be a believer!
For he shall give his angels charge over thee to keep thee in all thy ways.
Psalm 91:11
On a French motorway one day a car leaped the central reservation and hit a car on the other side of the road—head on. That car flipped over and over on the motorway, tossing the passengers around like clothes in a dryer. The box of wine that they had picked up at the airport flew up into the air and loose bottles started smashing around them. Open bags of food and make-up from the handbag on the floor of the back seat deposited their contents all over the car and then later, when it came to a halt, lay along the length of the carriageway as the car began to collapse like an empty cardboard box.
My sister Debbie had been in the back seat of that car. Sitting next to her had been her husband of two years and in the driving seat and front passenger seat had been their friends, a husband and wife. They had been on their way to visit another English couple who had made their home in France. It wasn’t the first time they had visited them, but this time it turned out to be a very different journey.
My sister told me later about how she felt as the car rolled over. She said, ‘I knew I was being protected. I knew I would survive, but I wasn’t sure if my friends would make it.’
The car landed on its roof. Inside, everyone was hanging upside down by their seatbelts.
In the front one of my sister’s friends said, ‘Is everyone OK?’ The silence, she said afterwards, seemed to go on and on. The other passengers were too deeply shocked to reply. Were they OK?
‘Yes,’ someone said eventually, and then another, then another…
Cars were driving past the accident and it was important to get out of the car as quickly as possible. People can do extraordinary things in times of danger. Strength appears from nowhere. Someone kicked in a window and the seatbelts were unlocked, resulting in the inevitable: everyone landing on their heads. Unbelievably, all four of them walked away from the crash with little more than cuts and bruises.
The woman who had hit them in her car was also fine, as were her young children, who had been in the car with her. Language difficulties then caused problems, but after several hours, still in shock, the group continued their journey. Eventually they arrived safely at their destination and fell into the waiting arms of their friends.
A type of calm had surrounded Debbie as the accident happened. ‘No one screamed,’ she said, ‘no one yelled.’
I remember receiving a photograph on my mobile phone just minutes after the crash—she had taken a photograph of the accident and mailed it over—and then hearing her voice saying, ‘I’ve been in a serious accident, but I’m OK. I just wanted to speak to someone. In fact we’re all OK…’
Not wanting to worry anyone by ringing in the early hours of the morning, I left it until first light before I informed the rest of the family. ‘They’re all OK,’ I reassured everyone, and each of us took it in turns to telephone Debbie and see how the group was doing. When losing your life seems so close, all you want to do is be with those you love, and failing that, a telephone call is the closest thing to hand. The more you can talk about it, the better.
Later the following afternoon I contacted a close family friend and explained what had happened. ‘I know…’ she said simply.
Rather bizarrely, her daughter had dreamed the whole thing. In the dream she had been a passenger in a car with her mother and they had driven past the mangled wreck of a car on the motorway. Her mother had told her, ‘Don’t look, because it’s either Aunty Jacky or Aunty Debbie!’
At the time my sister and I looked very alike. She has naturally blonde hair and I’d recently lightened mine. Even people who knew us both very well had been muddling us up since my change of hair colour. Could this young girl really have seen the accident as it happened—probably at the exact moment—in her dream? I believe she did.
That wasn’t the only paranormal experience relating to this story. Many months later my sister began having the dream visitations from my father-in-law Jack that I have already mentioned. He started to accompany her in the car as well. Driving along one day, she heard his voice clairvoyantly as he communicated with her from the other side of life. He called himself her ‘driving angel’ and she asked him, ‘Were you with us the day of the accident?’ He told her that he was and that he had surrounded the car with a white light of protection. This protection was what my sister had felt in the car, along with the knowledge that she was going to be OK. When she asked Jack why he had
