Category Archives: Love and Kindness

Tuesdays With The Angels-Messages From Heaven

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My latest novella, New Angel In Town, as in all my ten books, is  filled with messages from heaven. These messages of my own or told to me from family, friends and people I meet at book fairs, keeps me resilient and writing onward. The following recent story is one of my own.

On my late daughter, Kate’s birthday, a while ago heaven sent me a  message. Was it from Kate or the angels who I trust are near me each day? In the house I lived in for twenty one years after she passed away, geese would fly over head each day. I would go outside loving the sound of their calling  to each other. I loved their joy in the way they formed a perfect v. There  was always a straggler, a goose that had to catch up as if  he or she was a child on a schoolyard  catching up to his friends. I would always count the number flying over head. Why? I  wanted them to reach the number seventeen for that was Kate’s birthday date. Once in a while there would be seventeen geese and I would feel they had been sent to me to remember my joy at being her mother.

Recently, on the week of Kate’s birthday,  while looking at the sky in my new backyard, there they were again  very high in the sky. Amazingly, I’ve never seen them above this house I’ve lived in for a few years because there are no lakes near our home. But there they were greeting me high, closer to heaven as they moved towards a lake somewhere. Seventeen of them graced the air in perfect formation. As always there the straggler was catching up to the others.

I receive  so many messages from heaven and the angels.  Nature’s beauty surrounds us. I write about kindness and love, about thwarting bullies and helping others. I know I write with help from above. Maybe my writing can help others see the world as I do. There is profound heavenly strength in love and kindness. These are the foundations to awaken the spirit. Loving and helping others keeps my own humble life moving forward toward joy.  Everyday I  find signs filled with love like me running out of my back door again in total surprise to watch the majesty of geese flying overhead. In my latest novel the eight angels of Mystic Bay fly forming a perfect v as they fly to help a family somewhere in need. 

 

 

Tuesdays With The Angels-Angel Inspirations -The Kindness of Friends

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I’ve been lucky to have dear best friends over the years. I met my dear late friend Norma over forty years ago. My late daughter, Kate, was a baby and Norma, though old enough to be my mother, became my very bestie for decades. She had the qualities of a wonderful mother, wife and friend. She was brilliant. Her father and mother owned a bakery shop in the Bronx when she was a child. She went to NYU, which was a rarity for women in the late 1930’s. At twenty, she was a PT in the army stationed in England in World War II. There she met her late husband of over fifty years, Arch. Later in life they survived the death of their adult sons due to health problems. The inspiration from being  Norma’s friend was life changing for me.

When I lost my daughter, Kate, in a tragic accident, Norma was my rock to lean on. She had been through losing her one son then and knew the heartache. We were so close that we talked of the serious things of our lives but also we both had our  humorous positive side. Her humor was infectious. She gave me advice on childrearing and marriage and career. She taught me to love life even through the horrendous grief of losing Kate. She would wake up every day opening her curtains saying “Good Morning World!”

Before she died she read my first book, The Angel’s Daughter, and passed away after the second novel, To Catch an Angel. Of course she was the inspiration for Madam Norma, the oldest psychic town,  in all my books in the Mystic Bay Series.  She was thrilled to have a character patterned after her. But the funny thing was Norma wasn’t psychic in real life, nor did she believe in God. That is til the end. She saw spirits and her husband then. I miss her everyday still. But I know she is in heaven’s realm, and with her beloved Arch and sons. Norma’s wit and wisdom will follow me all the days of my life. Through sadness she was kind and calm. Norma was a gift to me from above, a role model to remember. In my award winning novel 20 Moon Rd. An Angel’s Tale, her character comes to Angel Ken in spirit asking him to write her life’s story to the world. In the novels Madam Norma had always seen angels by everyone’s  side. Surely, an angel sent this incredible human into my life. In the novel I wrote, I captured her essence, Madam Norma says, “Kindness Is The First Ingredient of Love.

Tuesdays With The Angels-The Angels Inspire My Words

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In our world where turmoil persists, the inspirations from the angels have led me to write the following. In one hundred years from now all that will matter to many of us human beings on earth is that we tried to pass our love to our children and grandchildren. We are all  watching how the bullies of the world try to break peace and the promise of a harmonious future.

On our fragile God’s green earth each of us can make a difference. Passing the love on will be for me a message of hope for a future for my loved ones. The greedy, the narcissists clearly don’t understand what they are missing and that as bullies they will never win.

We must pray for our world, pass the love around to our family and friends with kindness toward all others. Love is more powerful than hate. Love is the triumph for the ages. Our children are watching  these next one hundred years. Will the bully ever know that love is the only answer?

Tuesday With The Angels-Angel Inspiration Ribbons of Kindness

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I believe angels send me messages when I’m trying to go to sleep each night or when I wake up in the middle of the night. As I write my newest Mystic Bay Series novel about angels living as humans in the fantasy town I created, a recent  message  came in the night. Ribbons of Kindness.

I interpret this to mean that in this tumultuous time in our world when millions are scared of the uncertainty of peace, harmony and livlihood, there are ribbons of kindness flowing from many to help us all. It may be a stranger who smiles at us, a courteous driver who let’s us in a lane, a friendly word from an acquaintance or a loving hug and word from a loved one.

It may be the helping hands of ours or others who reach out to the less fortunate. As we trek through this time remember that love always wins, the bully always loses and kindness is there as a ribbon in your days. Being kind to others is a heroic part of love. In essensce kindness is the essential part of love. The angels know this to be true for sure. Whatever we do today and tomorrow please be part of the ribbon of kindness.

Tuesdays With The Angels- The Heart Knows Right From Wrong

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February is Valentine’s month where loved ones share cards and gifts. Cupid arrows are in the air and many hearts are filled with love. The angels send me words and thoughts to share.

Like our hearts are filled with other things like the sense of right and wrong. Today I would imagine that all of us adults know right from wrong. We may not express it but intrinsictly we know even as we are saying or doing things we shouldn’t. We know cruelty is wrong and harsh words and bullying and name calling are wrong. Today in the news of politics we are seeing adults engage in these petty, cruel schoolyard acts. Perhaps We all should consider Love in words and deeds for kindness is the first ingredient of love. Teach children Love.

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.