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!

Tuesdays With The Angels-Writing A Christmas Story

Town of Angels Christmas my latest novel is 4th in the Mystic Bay Series. I’ve always loved Christmas time. My ideas for this story came from my love for animals and concern for all animals well being. This story has a theme of horse rescue but also, as always, a theme of  love and angels. To me the thought of love and angels goes together. The angels which grace my Christmas tree every year and  Christmas songs of  angels give me hope for a world where love is the theme. I have been through great loss in my life but with the love of family, friends and the ability to write, I move forward hopefully inspiring others. 

Tuesdays With The Angels-Writing About Christmas

Writing about Christmas and angels in my latest novel in the Mystic Bay Series, Town of Angels Christmas, quieted yet fueled  my mind. Christmas time has always given me joy even through the hard times of my life from childhood to adulthood. Why? Because  thoughts of Christmas gave me what I needed most, hope for the world, hope for those I love and for my own life. God has given me the ability to write about angels. My father wrote, my great great aunt was a writer. And so I wrote little stories as a child, poems as a young adult and started writing novels in my fifties. My books have themes of love, redemption, awakening, forgiveness and hope. To totally forgive others, love unconditionally and wish others well, is a goal I strive for. If you read Town of Angels Christmas or any of my four in the Mystic Bay Series, my children’s book, When The Angel Sent Butterflies or my memoir, Special Needs Children The Angels On My Shoulder, you will find the roadmap of my life. Christmas is always in my heart and finding  the spirit of  Christmas is all I need, just a wing and a prayer.

Tuesdays With The Angels- The Peace Within

Writing is healing for me, healing my worries of everyday problems. I find writing the Mystic Bay Series, my memoir and children’s book  helped me search for  the peacefulness within. Wanting so much for readers of my books to cherish  the angel characters, townsfolk and animals amid the loving kind ways of Mystic Bay, I write on.

I pray for the world, for my family and friends, sending love and angels from my heart. I’ve gone through the sorrow of losing a child with hope, with faith and gratitude for precious memories, for what I have now and what can be. I don’t apologize for the ideal wish of peace, love and harmony. For these words to me can heal all the broken hearts in the world.

Tuesdays With The Angels-Dreams andHope Eternal

 Hope and dreams mean the same thing to me. I write books about angels in novels, my memoir and children’s book. From childhood, I always had hope God was with me and angels were by my side too, Hope and dreams propelled me spiritually to this part of my life. No, I don’t have wings on my back but I have wings of hope and dreams in my heart and mind. I hope to reach others with my books and thoughts. I hope the world becomes more loving and giving to others. So many people in the world need hopes and dreams. That’s what keeps all of us going. My hope is for peace, for love to be what drives our days. I’m writing screen treatments for each of my books in the Mystic Bay Series. These four novels need to be inspirational films so they can reach more people. I can dream and hope can’t I? Hopes and dreams are free, just like love.

Tuesdays With The Angels- The Angel Music of Christmas

It was only a matter of time before I would write Town of Angels Christmas, the 4th in my Mystic Bay Series. My childhood Christmas’ were filled with music. My father played his Christmas record collection whenever he was home from work and my sister, brother and I  would know the words by heart singing along, bringing us hopeful anticipation of the special day. The songs of angels like Hark the Harold Angels Sing by Nat King Cole, brought the spirit of Christmas into my heart.  My novels take place in the town of Mystic Bay where love and angels abound. Readers tell me it’s a town they want to live in. Come along to a  heartwarming town where the spirit of Christmas lives in everyone’s heart, especially mine.

Tuesdays With The Angels- Pure Imagination

See the angel in the clouds above the mountains? I do, with my imagination. I imagined my new novel Town of Angels Christmas because every year my fictitious town of Mystic Bay holds a Christmas parade where music abounds. I believe in angels and the power of our imagination and that music helps us all imagine. On America’s Got Talent, Jimmie Herrod, sung the beautiful song, Pure Imagination from Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. Jimmy, a contestant, sung like an angel.  My imagination is used in writing all my books where I imagine a town of kindness, a place of love. Music can move our imagination.  Only if we imagine the world peaceful, only if we imagine our part to help, the world can change come. I ask the angels to help me everyday. Just Imagine.