Tuesdays With The Angels-20 Moon Rd. An Angel’s Tale

Long ago during childhood, my older sister, Karen, played a game at night in our bedroom with me that she created from her imagination called, “Good Fairy.” As creativity ran in all the genes of our family, my creativity was born. It would be decades later that I would write my first novel. Now I have finished the 5th in the Mystic Bay Series, 20 Moon Rd, An Angel’s Tale. I also wrote my memoir of my teaching years called, Special Needs

Children The Angels On My Shoulder. Also, I wrote a children’s

book, When The Angel Sent Butterflies.I was inspired to write angel stories after my daughter passed away years ago. It was then I know I met an angel in human form. His presence and words comforted me and so I call him The Man I Call Angel. I dedicated this book to my sister and my father, Joe, who was a funny, creative and brilliant man, who left our lives too soon. I try to promote positivity through my stories with themes of love, redemption, forgiveness, hope, self-discovery and kindness. My stories come with help from above. I’m sure of it. It has been a journey in between raindrops and sunny days. I am finding writing fills my soul with joy, wonder and love.

Angel Story From Joy

I was leaving my teller job at a local bank in Santa Cruz, CA twenty nine years ago when I was twenty eight years old. I walked to work five days a week. It was a lovely walk from my home to the bank through a residential neighborhood and took me about fifteen minutes. As I left work this particular day, I noticed it was beginning to rain so I was using my umbrella as I crossed the busy street in front of the bank. I was using the crosswalk and it was a crosswalk without any stop lights. So I always looked very carefully before I crossed the street. I did see cars far to the right of the crosswalk but the speed limit was twenty five mph so I felt I had plenty of time to cross. As I started across and had stepped several steps in the road, I was hit by a car. The next thing I remembered was waking up in the hospital with a nurse telling me I was going into surgery soon and I had been hit by a car.

I did fully recover after about six weeks after having surgery to repair my broken right shoulder, broken right elbow, and torn right knee ligaments. Also my pelvis was fractured. I was lucky to have a top emergency room doctor operate on me and care for me during my two week stay in the hospital.

While recuperating in the hospital I was informed that I was hit by a drunk driver who fled the scene after hitting me. He did return later but not to own up to hitting me but just to see if I was going to survive. The police questioned him when they saw his damaged windshield and witnesses said he was the driver so he was arrested right away after also failing a sobriety test.

I was informed several months later during the court hearing for the drunk driver that a couple had stopped their car to protect me while I was laying unconscious in the crosswalk. I never found out who this couple was but I know they were my guardian angels. I have thought about their heroic act quite frequently through the years and I am so grateful for this Divine power of angels from God. I was very young when this accident happened and have had a lot of wonderful times since this horrific day. I thank my blessings from God everyday and I’m so thankful to God for sending my guardian angels to save my life on that rainy evening.

Tuesdays With The Angels-Having A Heart

Have a Heart is an expression that has been used for many years. As the Russian War in Ukraine rages on, I pray without ceasing for the people of Ukraine and for the people who’s outpouring of love from their hearts spreads around the world.

In these times of people sheltering refugees, orphans, donations of military aid, food, helping animals, these are people in the world that inspire me. These are our angels on earth who take their loving hearts and help people they have never met or most likely will  never meet. The bully never wins in the end. So I pray the strength of heart and prayer will blanket the people of Ukraine and their homeland will shine again. All who help others in our world Have A Heart Because Love is Here to Stay.

Tuesdays With The Angels-Forgiveness

Words came to me the other night as I lay awake in the middle of the night. I wasn’t thinking about forgiveness yet the following words came from up above I’m sure: Forgiveness is Holy

I had finished writing my 5th book in my Mystic Bay Series, 20 Moon Road An Angel’s Tale. When these words came to me, I not only knew forgiveness is an on going theme in all my books but I realized something I’d never thought of.  Heaven has sent me every one of the words I write to share with others. These stories of love, redemption, hope, forgiveness and caring for others, bring me me nearer to God and angels. Forgiveness is Holy

 

Tuesdays With The Angels-A Prayer Calling Angels

I met an angel once who appeared as a human, comforting me when I lost my daughter years ago.  So as we see all the atrocities of war in Ukraine, my blog today is a prayer to the angels.Please angels surround the Ukrainians with love and protect them from the evil bully who has inflicted his army of cowards on their country. I pray for peace. The good people of our world have bonded together to help these courageous Ukrainians.All angels please help us  defeat the terror with loving strength. God Bless the good people of the world. For love always wins and good will always prevail. I visualize today and everyday  sending a fleet of angels to guard and help to save Ukraine.  Amen

 

 

Tuesdays With The Angels-Calling All Angels

As I watch most of the world rally behind the Ukrainian people, I know the angels are calling all the world to support this country and its’ men, women and children. We must pray for each and every one of the Ukrainians and for us to rally, to unite as one in as many countries as possible.

Prayer is more powerful than realized by many. Pray for unity, for health and safety of these people and all the people of the world.

When I write my books about angels and the angels that live as humans in the fictitious town of Mystic Bay, I believe it’s true. I think angels do live among us. I know, I met an angel once long ago when my daughter passed away. In my new novel out soon, 20 Moon Road An Angels Tale, the theme captures how one person’s love and knowing angels can change everything. 

Helping someone in need helps ourselves become all we can be. In my novels, the bully never wins.   

Angel Story From Ashley – January 2022

When I was a little girl, an angel visited me as I woke in my bedroom. I lived with my mom, dad, and big sister. I think I said a prayer to see an angel. This angel stood by my bedroom window and smiled at me. He was white with blond hair and wore a white robe. He was bright, like the light from a candle illuminating a dark room. I’d never seen an angel before and was shocked and couldn’t believe my eyes. I turned the lights on in my bedroom and turned them back off and when I did, he was gone.

I saw an an angel again near my bedroom door as a little girl later on. The lights were off in the house, and my mom walked past it and didn’t realize and said ‘Ashley, it’s time for school…’ and when she turned the hallway light on, it was gone.

At 37, November 7,2021, I woke at my big sister’s house to go to the bathroom. There was a bright light that illuminated under her office door in her house, like a light being left on in a room in a dark house. The light illuminated under the door like how a candle illuminates a dark room with its light. The house was pitch black dark, and many family members were still sleeping. I couldn’t believe my eyes. I didn’t open the door to her office but turned on the light to the bathroom.

When I turned on the light to the bathroom nearby, it was dark underneath her office door, and the lights were off like most of the lights in the house. After I finished using the bathroom, I turned on the light to the kitchen but underneath her office door, it remained dark with the light off as if nobody had been in there.

These stories are based on true events that have actually happened to me.

Tuesdays With The Angels-What Do Angels Look Like?

Angels to me, are as different as falling snowflakes. They come in human form and angel form, like we do, in different colors, shapes and sizes. I have never seen an angel with wings, but others I know have seen angels themselves. Some look like humans, others look like angels and some are unseen.

I am as sure as there is a heaven above,  I  met an angel once over 25 years ago. He came in the form of a human, an older gentleman. Months after my daughter Kate, passed away suddenly. My dear friend, Nancy, invited me on a girl’s trip to Houston. The first day of our trip in Houston, we went shopping at an upscale mall, There we met a man in a department store and had just a friendly hello to him at the men’s department,   However, the next day, the man came up to us in a little shop in a town an hour away from Houston that neither of us had ever been to. The tall man came up to us and surprised us by saying “hello girls”. We chatted for a few minutes and he said, we thought jokingly, “See you at the airport.” Nancy and I laughed and turned to look at some gifts. A few moments later, when Nancy and I turned back to him,  the man was gone. Later, we realized he must have been an angel because it seemed an  amazing encounter.  My fear of flying had escalated after my daughter’s passing. As we looked up and down the street that long ago day, the gentleman  was nowhere? We sat down at a little table outside the store and said to each other,”Could the man be an angel sent to comfort me?” My fear of flying has decreased over the years now and I’ve looked  for him at airports but haven’t seen him, yet I know he is there. He never told us his name nor did we tell him ours, but to this day I call him, The Man I Call Angel.

 As I’ve written my Mystic Bay Series over the last ten years, my novels center around angels living as humans. I certainly have asked many people if they have seen angels. And to my surprise, so many friends and strangers have had experiences. They are all  first hand from people I call friends or have met at book events. Every encounter is comforting to me  and extraordinary. One encounter is from a friend. Her  husband had passed away. An angel appeared to her and identified himself as her guardian angel. She couldn’t see his face clearly, but his wings were a  beautiful gray blue color, folded long to his sides. She said he spoke comforting words to her as she felt ill that day. She said he stood about 12 feet tall. She has never forgotten how her angel helped her with loving words and presence that day.

Another friend, a person with healing abilities, said he has seen angels that are 30 feet tall and golden. He sees them around many individuals. Another friend tells me her two angels have been at her side since childhood and appear as ordinary young men.

I have written 5 books in the Mystic Bay Series. 20 Moon Road, will be out this summer. What’s remarkable to me is, I keep hearing angel stories from people who have seen them or knew an angel was with them or saved their life. These are truly angel miracle stories, sent to us all from heaven above.  

Tuesdays With The Angels-Heaven & Angels

I’m writing about Madam Norma my beloved character in my Mystic Bay Series. My new book 20 Moon Road An Angels Tale will be published sometime soon. I patterned many a character after my dear friends. Madam Norma was inspired by my late friend Norma. For forty years we were friends. She was like a surrogate mother, best friend and confident all in one. I was like a daughter to her she once told me. We shared our lives and she died at ninety three a few years ago. She survived losing her two sons, her dear husband of over sixty years yet she had a joy of living. She would wake up everyday and open her curtains saying, “Good morning world!”

Oh how I miss her so. I’ve recently lost two dear  friends and it’s heart breaking and yet…I remember this. A friend sent me a beautiful card years ago when I had lost my daughter, Kate. On the card three dogs were looking out the window. The card read…

Not Gone, Just Gone On Ahead

A beautiful thought for I believe it’s true. All our loved ones who have gone to heaven will be waiting for us. They would want us to live our lives to the fullest, right now, right this very minute. And so I celebrate life everyday feeling blessed. I believe our loved ones are waiting with the angels.

Tuesdays With The Angels-Inspiring Christmas Stories

I’ve always loved Christmas and the themes of treasured Christmas books that write themselves into the fabric of my heart and on to the pages of my latest novel.

The Night Before Christmas took me from childhood imagining into Mystic Bay Novel Series 4. With visions of Santa and reindeer in my mind, I wrote a story of horses needing rescued before Christmas and love that changes everything.

In A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens, the cruel Scrooge changes when visited by spirits of his past, present and  yet to come, who show him how his miserly ways have caused much suffering.  My books always include a man or woman who has earned the characteristics of a Scrooge. But as all good stories can end, my characters find their way to goodness and love.

Even the Grinch in How The Grinch Stole Christmas by Dr. Seuss can have his heart changed for good. Town of Angels Christmas is my way of honoring my love of Christmas. The themes are filled with hope for a troubled yet beautiful world. Fences built on love can change everything in a beloved
Christmas story. Merry Christmas  Everyone!