Category Archives: Hope

Tuesdays With The Angels- Hope Grow Love

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I had lunch with old friends and one asked us what advice we’d give our grown children if there was one important message. My answer was a simple one. Stay close and love each other. Be together.

It’s part of my daily attitude of how precious life is and how fast it goes. One friend spoke of a bully in our high school. I always think of bullies as troubled souls and write them as characters in my Mystic Bay Series. In the novels, the bullies always learn lessons and some of them change for the better. Hope is always present in my thinking. To me, hope is a prayer for things to change for the good.

It seems like yesterday my kids were babies and now I have grandchildren. The years have  gone by so quickly. Wisdom does come with the years and I put what ideas I feel the angels send me into all my books.

Hope Grow Love is a message to ponder, isn’t it? I’ve just finished my latest Mystic Bay novel. It’s at the editors for her final and brilliant editing. I put my heart and soul in these books. Long ago, when the high school bully tried to hurt me, somehow I had the strength within through the years to move forward.

As a teacher, I knew and could intrinsically feel, the heart and needs of my students with special needs. I knew how to be a team with my late husband and my present husband. I knew how to be a supportive mother to my living children and that I had done the best I could at the time mothering my late daughter.

We can find joy if we traverse through all the troubles of life, living the best we can, growing  without even knowing it, and loving as hard as we can. The bully never wins and love is always triumpant.

 

With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts.

Eleanor Roosevelt

Tuesdays With The Angels-Resilience & Joy vs Bullying

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Resilience means  The capacity or withstand or recover quickly from difficulties ;toughness .

Today in our world and our country when bullying has meant most of the US citizens are scared, many to speak out I, as an author, am not afraid. The first amendment clearly stated  Freedom of Speech to be the primary important part of living in our democracy.

I am not afraid of anything. I’ve lived a full life with many sorrows but mostly with many joys. Resilience is my strength. Finding joy by helping our own families but by helping those in need in our country and around the world, will help thwart the bullying that has erupted.

Finding calm in a storm by prayer, positive healing thoughts, speaking out against cruelty and loving each other will help us all. I don’t know the anwers to everything but I do know this. When my daughter Kate, passed away, and I felt guilt that I could not save her, I somehow with help from above found the resilience to keep going for my teenage children, my family and students. I had to grow as a human being with God’s gift of kindness and love to show those around me and those I will never meet my kindness. As a saying goes ‘Fear is at the door but faith answers it’.

My father and my father-in-law fought in the second world war to defend democracy and the spread of evil. The bully of today will never find peace or joy by hurting others with racism and bigotry.

 Hurting others can never bring joy. It will only hurt the soul of the bully. I write books about angels with the themes ‘Love always wins’ and ‘The bully never does win in the end’. Sometimes a bully can change. So I ask God and the angels to help the bully see the light of love and joy.  Nurturing your soul towards loving kindness is the way to happiness and to live the gift of our precious life.

Tuesdays With The Angels-Threads of Love vs. Bullying

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Many of us have been bullied as children or adults. We remember it don’t we? What we remember mostly is the love for us that is never ending from family, friends or a just from a moment of kindness from a stranger. Threads of love are here to stay. They can’t ever be destroyed by hate and are stronger than bursts of anger and fear which are the characteristics of bullying.  

  The thread of love is impenetrable.  Love is the winner in most of the films and shows we view like the films of superheroes who not only have  brawn but might,  the strength of love in their souls. There are millions of people who are superheroes to their families, their friends, their jobs, their constituents. Their might is made of love threads. If we only can recognize the superhero in ourselves. Bullies don’t have superhero qualities. They don’t  choose love over revenge, jealousy or hate.

What we, who fight hate in the world, can do is to just keep building upon our love for our fellowman, those less fortunate, those in need wherever in our world. Working together is a love thread for someone or something other than ourselves.

We need to be voting for people in our government positions who care about people and their families, their futures, applauding  goodness like  the superheroes on the screen. Humanity is humans being kind to other humans in spite of our different races, religions and creeds. 

In reality there is no place for the bully in society. For  bullying is synonamous with hate. But bullies can change if they really want to. What will it take? Will they learn from those of us who believe in fairness, love and kindness? Hope is always possible. I obviously believe in angels and write about love and bullying in my books. The bully always changes as I write. So I ask with a heart full of hope that all  bullies change somehow after an incident of kindness someone has done for them.

People who are role models of goodness can spark an idea, do a good deed or do something that might turn the bully’s head around.  The love thread is unbreakable.  I can almost hear the angels whisper to me in my mind, ” Love is forever triumphant. Nothing is impossible with love at the helm.”

Tuesday With The Angels-Goodwill vs Bully

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I always ask the angels to give me  words as I write my novellas and blogs. I knew a healer who said when I asked him what to do about others who are critical or cruel to me or those I love, he said, “Wish them well.”  

How powerful it is to wish well those who are unkind to us. In all the  books I write, goodness always wins and the bully learns. Today with so many bullies plagueing our media my belief now and forever is that hopefully someday they will see the light kindness brings. Wishing them well but also wishing them knowledge are compatible. In my new  book set in Mystic Bay I am writing, the angels who live as humans in Mystic Bay, impact everyday lives with thoughtful gestures and examples of kindness and understanding.

We are fortunate  to be here on earth to help our families, our friends as well as those we might never know. Our impact to help those in need will fly on angels wings little by little spreading love and kindness. Thoughts of love have power and change. Love is always more powerful than hate. Remember, we can be stewards of kindness, light workers, lighting the way to a path of kindness. The bully never wins!

My NFPW  2025 National Award for The Dog Who Came For Christmas!

Tuesdays With The Angels- Angel Inspirations- Teach Our Children About Bullying

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You know who the bully hurts? Our children, the most vulnerable in our society.  Many lives of children are suffering because of the bullying in the schoolyards, the bullies in the neighborhood and as they see it play out in the media. Recently, I purchased a t-shirt that is for kids and adults. It says Everyone Is Welcome Here.

In my seven Mystic Bay Series of novellas, and memoir, Special Needs Children The Angels on My Shoulder, bullying is always one of the main themes. Why?Because bullying has to be taken to task in our society.  Teaching  about bullying begins at home and in school. Teaching kindness and how to be kind is our great opportunity to change the world.

Every one of us may have been bullied in our young lives or as adults and there is such a  need to teach the children how to overcome being bullied and how bullying hurts. We can teach kids to walk away, tell parents or adults like their teacher, bus driver or family member if somebody has bullied them. Talk to your kids about bullying.

An important lesson for our kids is to explain to them how kindness helps us grow into loving adults and how helping others helps ourselves grow up to be kind. Being kind can spread love around the world. It is more powerful than hate.

I’ve writen books that have won awards, I think mainly because of the themes of love, forgiveness, redemption and thwarting bullies.   In my next Mystic Bay novella  due to be released in 2026, bullying will once more be a theme. I love to write and the angels inspire me to realize my potential to get themes of love and hope out into the world. It is my belief that any one can change if they want to.

I ask the angels everyday to give me inspiration and they always come through. Phrases of hope, love and working through problems come to mind in my writng, creating good outcomes. Through  educating our children by helping them solve  problems and through our role modeling these traits in our lives , love and kindness will win against bullying. Kindness is inherent but can be learned. Being kind never leaves you. Kindness Crossing and Everyone Is Welcome Here are signs I love for  kindness  is forever, a  gift from above.

Tuesdays With The Angels- Angels Inspiration: Our Children Our Focus

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In these times when misguided adults are causing chaos in our world, the angels have inspired me to write this post. Our children in the world need to be our focus at this time. What are they hearing in their homes, what kind of words are they listening to? Is it intolerance or is it about teaching kindness?

Children  should be witnessing love and togetherness. Instead our media is covering bullying,  man’s inhumanity to man. We need to see the truth how chaos and bullying destroy. We need to be covering  the important way to live like  helping those in need.

 I wrote two books about children. One was the book about my work as a teacher with children who had special needs. Children With Special Needs The Angels On My Shoulder.

These children impacted my life with their no agenda ways and with only love in their hearts. The other book was my children’s book, When The Angel Sent Butterflies, inspired by my grandchildren. An angel comes to help the character Kate with her fear of bees.

We adults need to think about the impact of words and the actions we are taking. Actions our children are seeing daily on TV or words  they are hearing at home. The children are listening and watching. They need a world to grow up in where tolerance for the differences in others is taught. They need to see love and kindness will set us all free of hate. This sounds ideal but I keep praying, I keep writing books with good outcomes because this is what the world as a whole needs to hear. The Bully Never Wins so I’ll keep on.

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Tuesdays With The Angels-Angel Inspirations Manifesting Little Changes

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As I was writing my tenth book in the Mystic Bay Series, I found myself stuck. The turmoil of our country and in our world is sad, disheartening and stressful at best. But then the other day there was an inspirational  thought that crossed my mind when I asked myself what can I do. The words–  little changes.  This was just what I needed, a thought from above I’m sure.

I believe we can manifest what we want and I want my children and grandchildren living in  a world that’s  striving for  peace and harmony. We Are the World was the great song of the 80’s. That powerful song put forth the truth. Helping each other and working together is primary for peace. Taking the utmost care of our children and teaching this principle could solve so much.

 My novels, hopefully uplifting stories, contain love, redemption, forgiveness and hope. That’s the kind of world I want for all children. The children around the world are watching and learning from us. We are the role models.

 Making little changes in our lives can manifest big changes. My little change is to keep on turning stress into writing a storyline that is full of hope and good outcomes.  Our voices need to be heard in what ever way possible.  Writing is part of my soul’s journey. Stay tuned, I’m manifesting a story filled with kindness, gratitude and hope for a better world.

Love and Peace!

Tuesdays With The Angels- Kindness Is Not A Weakness

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Now when the world seems tumultuous and hate hurts so many, it’s time to think of those who have passed on, all our loved ones gone to heaven’s realm. Would they tell us how short this time on earth is? I feel strongly they would tell us love is all that matters.

If I had to choose two sentences to say to my husband, children, grandchildren and loved ones, one would be, I love you more than words can say. The other would be this- Kindness is not weakness but a strength.

To be kind now in the face of hateful speech that reverberates around the world, gives me hope. Kindness by itself is power from heaven above and can make hate leave many hearts.  As the beloved character, Madam Norma in my Mystic Bay Series always said,”Kindness is the first ingredient of love. Ask the angels for help. They are always listening.

Tuesdays With The Angels- Angel Inspirations Children & Animals

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In 1995, this very day, I lost my daughter, Kate. At nineteen she was beautiful, bright, in love with her boyfriend, and glowing going to college. She loved her family, her dogs and cat and her friends. Her promise of a bright future was there for the making but her future was to be with God.

I have learned so many things these years gone by. So many lessons learned that I can’t put them all down on paper.  I do know for sure that love is the answer to everything. My twins, Mike and Elizabeth, who are adults now, have shown me with grace and fortitude their ongoing love for life and others. As teens when Kate died, they had a wisdom way mature for their age. They are kind human beings, my daughter, an incredible  mother and my son a loving uncle.They help others in need and of course love animals as our whole family does.

Years ago my journey through grief was helped by my children’s love. My dear friend Nancy,  took me on a girl’s trip years ago to help my sorrow. There we met a man I’m sure was an angel.  One day he was  at a store in Houston politely talking to us and the next day there he was again in a town we had never been to an hour away in another store. His presence astounded us and he told us he would see us at the airport. Then we turned away for a moment and when we looked back he was gone from the store. We went outside but he was nowhere. I know he was an angel there to comfort, letting me know Kate was safe in God’s hands.

Because of him, and in memory of my Kate, I have written ten books. There is only love in the books I write, all with angel themes.  My novella’s, my memoir about teaching children with special needs, and my children’s book, all were inspired by the angel and my love for Kate, my family and my own gift of life. 

My angel inspirations today, this day of remembrance and love, is to keep on loving, forgiving, hoping, praying for all to find places in their hearts for others, to know their blessings,  to help those who need us the most, the children and animals, the innocent ones of our world. Is there another book about angels in my ever-growing imagination? Always. Here is my latest.

 

Tuesdays With The Angels- Angel Inspirations-Animal Rescue

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Bless The Beasts and the Children, one of my favorite songs from the seventies, has a wonderful lyric. “Keep them safe, keep them warm.” I’ve written many times about protecting our children from man’s inhumanity to man. As of  now bullying  is considered almost the norm in politics, dividing people. However,  I also feel strongly about the well being of  our animal friends. Protecting them from animal abuse has recently driven me to write it as a main theme in my new novel coming soon.

My husband and I  have rescued many animals and continue to advocate for them around the world, whether companions to people or in the wild. They are innocent and vulnerable and the poor way some individuals regard them shows all of us what these people are made of.  Animals can’t speak for themselves. Just like we all should share in protecting the children of the world, we are also the animals’ voices of hope. I believe in hope, love and helping those who need our strength and our kindness. 

Angels inspire me. Why? Because I surely met an angel in human form once when the loss of my daughter turned the light out in my being for a time. And all these years later as the light turned on knowing angels were really near,  I became a writer, writing about angels with novels storied with goodness, kindness and redemption.

Taking care of those who have no voice is my fervid hope. Children and the animals of the world need to thrive. Bless the Beasts and the Children. Everyday I  ask the angels for help with problems, as I navigate this precious life I’m given.  I am always sure they are telling me to follow my heart. I know for sure they are listening.