Category Archives: Angels

Tuesdays With The Angels-Town of Angels Christmas

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My 4th in the Mystic Bay Series,

Town of Angels Christmas A Tale of Love & Animal Rescue will be published soon. I have always loved Christmas and rescuing animals has always been my heart’s work. The story includes rescuing horses and as in every novel, keeping the secret safe that angels live as humans there. It’s about love too and threaded in the story some characters have experienced prejudice and abuse. I’ve always believed social problems can be healed. My books, readers say. give them hope and inspiration, Mystic Bay, my fictional town, is a place many readers say they wish was real. Well, we can all put Mystic Bay in our hearts. Kindness as in all my books,  always wins, and the bully changes. It’s possible with a little help from the angels! 

Tuesdays With The Angels-Town of Angels Christmas

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It’s in my wonderful editor’s hands!!  Town of Angels Christmas and hopefully she likes my novella and 4th book and final in the Mystic Bay Series!

Yes, I never thought I’d write 4 books about the ficticious  town of Mystic Bay. Readers say they want to live in the town where townsfolk help each other and angels live as humans  guiding their flock as friends or as angels unseen. I too, don’t want to leave the town behind. It’s become healing to write about this town. This book is special because there are themes of the negativity we find in our world, racism, abuse and bullying. But as always the town of Mystic Bay will come together for when I write, the characters always solve the problems and find  true answers.

The Light of Angels

To me, people are inherently good. It’s just that some lose their way. There is  romance of course in this novella, plenty of animals including the rescue of horses. Many loved  characters return. Of course, there is a wonderful Christmas theme to hopefully brighten every readers day. I will wait and see if readers want  a 5th book! Til then, hopefully, Town of Angels Christmas will be out by Christmas 2021! 

Tuesdays With The Angels- 4th Mystic Bay Novel

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What is it like to write about a town I’ve grown to love, a town called Mystic Bay created in my mind? This novel or novella, I am thinking will be called Town of Angels Christmas. It’s themes are many like in my previous books. There are themes of  redemption, love, forgiveness, hope and of course the main theme of angels living among us.

My writing started from childhood but the Mystic Bay stories started twenty-five years ago when I am sure I met an angel He looked like a typical man and his presence two times on two days comforted me after my daughter Kate passed away. I’ve grown to love Mystic Bay, the characters, plus painting a picture of the town for the readers. This book will feature not only themes of the good the town does, adopting, fostering children and animals. It will also, touch racism and cruelty to horses. Why do I write these themes? Because they are as important today as they always have been.My angels I think about don’t appear to me but I am sure somehow they whisper themes, and circumstances to write about. It will be hard to say goodbye to Mystic Bay, the characters, the quaint seaside town, the main character of the last two novels, Angel Ken. Most of all it will be sad to say goodbye to a town where angels live as humans and no one knows the sweetest secret.


Tuesdays With The Angels- Town of Angels Christmas

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Coming Soon....Town of Angels Christmas! 

Creating Mystic Bay, a town where angels live as humans has been my greatest joy in writing. I’ve always loved Christmas and so I’m in the process of writing the fourth in the Mystic Bay Series. It will be a book filled with all the same endearing characters and feature Angel Ken as the main character. Of course, there will be themes from today. Ken, an African American man I met on a plane a few years ago who worried about racism in America, inspired me to write him  as a main endearing character to love. I wrote him as an angel living a human experience.  Town Of Angels Christmas will feature the people of Mystic Bay showing the world prejudice and cruelty are not tolerated in their town. With love and guidance other characters will be ready for change.

Tuesdays With The Angels- Real Angels

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I know three people who are gifted in the healing arts. Each person is different in their approach but they all have prayer at the center of  the healing of their patient.

I myself have experienced healings and thank God for these people who have natural abilities to help the body heal. On my own journey, I try to tell my body to heal whenever a problem arrises. I believe we all have abilities to help our bodies heal. But this self ability also has to do with the mind. Daily, I again and again try to improve my positivity, looking towards heaven in prayer and thanksgiving. Praying for others in my life is healing for me. That’s what life is about to me… Prayers are a form of projecting love toward others. People who have the ability to help heal others with God’s help must be angels on earth. 

Nothing is impossible!

Tuesdays With The Angels-Voice of an Angel

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Chicken Soup for the Soul kindly mentioned my story, Voice of an Angel in their latest podcast. I was honored to have my story  featured in their recently published book,  Listen to Your Dreams. Dreams are important and the angel voice I heard in the dream  long ago inspired me to  find the joy ahead. Writing is a dream come true for me. To me, following our dreams leads to fulfillment. Whether dreams come true or another answer comes to us from above, just dream then dream again and again.

Tuesdays With The Angels-Real Angels & Christmas

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I always loved angels. My first exposure was through Christmas at our house. Even though my parents had troubling issues, our house was filled with lights, a beautiful tree, ornaments and stars that made my heart sing. There was a nativity set and angels on the tree. My faith was always a part of me, a feeling angels were with me. My dad would play Christmas albums all day long and to this day I can sing them word for word. They bring back a sense of peace overriding the tough memories of those years. Yes,  through the happy and hard times of my life I’ve believed angels were near. I’ve never seen  wings, but I know I met an angel once in human form  coming into my world after I lost my daughter. He comforted me then and thinking about him still comforts me years later. My belief in angels is even stronger now. I’ve written five books about angels. My Mystic Bay series tells the story of angels living as humans helping the people in town with encouragement and love.  So many incidents have filled my heart with the knowledge that love and goodness come from heaven. There is no doubt to me angels are always at my side and on my shoulder.They are everywhere. Look for your angels at Christmas and always!

Tuesdays With The Angels-Real Angels

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As I practice my Youtube videos, Jody Sharpe The Angel’s On My Shoulder, I ponder what to say. Yes I can talk all day about the angel characters and others in my books. Themes that run through my mind all come back to love and kindness, the very essence of angels.  Maybe I meet angels sometimes on the street as strangers. Like the time a man came walking down the street and asked if he could help me as I struggled with my suitcase up the steep  stairs of my daughter’s  apartment steps in New York City. I asked him his name and he said, ” Val”. I wrote him as a character in my book, To Catch an Angel. Maybe they come to me in dreams like Hannah’s special tears in The Angel’s Daughter. Truly, the lovely idea came in a dream.

All I know is I believe angels are real and are there to touch us with love and goodwill. This is what I focus on when negativity comes calling. Writing and thinking about angels helps me find ways to  cope with the complexities of life.

I don’t ever leave a conversation with a loved one or friend without a kind word. This is my calling, to write about angels and to live as if angels are on my shoulder. For I know it’s true.

 

Tuesdays With The Angels- Love vs Bullying

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 Bullying happens at some point to all of us either in person or on social media. When very personal unkind questions were posed to me the other day,  I didn’t hesitate. For long ago I realized the gift of love, forgiveness and carrying on.

As I write in my novels and blogs the bully is the ultimate sad character. He or she never wins while only trying to feel superior  by hurting others.

Recently, one of my children told me of a friend who said racist remarks about another. “How sad,” I said. “I’m so happy you have grown up to be a kind loving person.”

The other day I turned a bullying comment away myself by ignoring the intrusive negative comment and moving on to a positive yet vague comment of my own with no personal information given.

Today in our world, I believe there’s a spiritual awakening and only love can mend us all. Loving yourself and others is the only armor anyone needs to counteract any cruelty. The angels have been with me on Tuesdays and everyday all my wonderful grateful life.

 

Tuesdays With The Angels-Messages about Bullying

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 During my twilight sleep at night when I can’t discern between falling or dreaming,  I often get messages for my writings. Lately, messages for my books are about bullying. The last book  I wrote, Special Needs Children The Angels On My Shoulder, had a theme about bullying. Are these messages from the angels? I believe so.

The other night one line ran through my head. It wasn’t  a voice, just a sentence….

Find the meaning in your own incredible life. 

Working with my special students gave me a purpose in life. Helping their self esteem through encouragement and kindness helped me. These kind and vulnerable students changed my world and my belief in my hope for humanity. They thrived on the kindness.   

As a child I witnessed bullying and was bullied. I saw my own students and children suffer because of bullying at school.  As I have written before in my mind the bully never wins.. ever. The words that came to me on that night have found a solid place in my heart. Despite cruelty from others we all can find the meaning in the life God has given us.  I know for sure the angels have been on my shoulders for years encouraging kindness. Angels are on the shoulders of all my former students, my family, my friends and all of us who do the best they can each day.

I wonder if the sad bully who enjoys hurting others ever lets the angels’ voiceless words in at night as they drift to slumber…

  Find the meaning in your own incredible life?