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Tuesdays With The Angels- Message about Bullying From It’s A Wonderful Life Film
The film, It’s A Wonderful Life, starring Jimmy Stewart as George Bailey has always been an inspiration in my work writing about angels. Written and filmed before I was born, it tells the story of how the bully and wealthiest man in town, Mr. Potter, tries to destroy George’s life and the town. George contemplates suicide but then along comes his guardian angel, Clarence, who shows him what life would be like if he’d never been born.
It’s a film for the ages to watch again and again. It shows how kindness and love of family and friends can thwart a bully every time. In the end George succeeds and the town and his family come together showing what love can do.
I recently had the misfortune to meet a bully who criticized my book covers and my business card. But you know what I did? I walked away head held high, triumphant, never stooping to the bully’s level. I stood firm, didn’t yell and my line at the end of the conversation said it all, “I write books in memory of my late daughter because after her death years ago, I met a man I know was an angel. His kind words comforted me.”
You see, I must have my own guardian angel like Clarence watching over me all the time. I didn’t turn into a bully myself when faced with the worst thing that could have happened to me. Instead, I made it through by writing joy and loving those in my present life. Leaving the bully behind is a great achievement for any of us. It is an honor for me to write stories of angels, where love abounds, and the bully never ever wins.
Tuesdays With The Angels-Dolly Parton Angel Unaware
“I’ll Always Love You ” is one of the most famous songs of today. Dolly Parton has always been an inspiration to me. Talented and wanting stardom, she reached her goal but with a twist. She helped her impoverished family, her friends, children of the world, and animals with her wealth and brilliance. But she also did something else. She was a role model of our times of the joy of kindness, spreading light and love wherever she sang, or talked to others.
Was it meant to be that I briefly mention Dolly in my 2026 latest novella, New Angel In Town? My character, Aunt Helen, wants Dolly to play her in a film being created about angel encounters.
I wish I had met her because I would have loved to tell her, “Did you know, you are an angel unaware as you spread love around the world promoting literacy and kindness?”
What a lovely soul, now in heaven with her beloved husband. Surely, if it can be, she has wings as she looks down upon us sending love, light and sunshine behind the rainbows.
Tuesdays With The Angels-Angel Stories
I’ve a new submission for my Angel Stories on my YouTube channel. Thank you to Judy for her heartfelt story. It’s a story to ponder written with hope from the heart. She met an an angel at an AA meeting but at the time he appeared in human form. Her sister was struggling with drug abuse. The stranger, a man she didn’t know, gave her a message that her sister would be okay.
It took thirty years for Judy to tell the story. It’s a story of intervention which is the greatest gift to give anyone suffering from drug abuse. Intervention helped someone in my own family find strength and resolve.
Judy’s story is one of sisterly love. She cared enough for her sister’s well being and went the loving distance to help. That’s what love is all about isn’t it? We meet these angels so many times not knowing they are real angels at the time until they have gone from sight. They help us grow with whispers of encouragement and hope. They let us fall when we need to learn.
I know this for sure because I met my own angel once upon a time. He changed my life when sorrow came. My latest book, New Angel In Town is filled with real angel stories told in fiction form. Love is made of kindness and hope. Believe in angels and submit your own story. jodysharpe.com
Tuesdays With The Angels-Tell Me Your Angel Stories
On my YouTube Jody Sharpe channel, I’ve started a new series called “Tell Me Your Angel Stories” because in my latest novella, New Angel In Town, I weave all of my own angels stories and stories of family, friends and people I meet at book signings into a fictional storyline.
I have heard so many angel encounters from others that I’ve been compelled to tell them in my novellas and on my channel. I am writing a new novella, a prequel to the Mystic Bay series, and I will weave more of new stories people tell me and those of my own into the book.
Go to my website jodysharpe.com and submit your story so I can air it on my Jody Sharpe channel. In the mornings light, I ask the angels for guidance. The angels told me a while back to continue, to keep going, keep telling the stories and it may help others find hope. Love and gratitude to all today and tomorrow. Tell Me Your Angel Story for angels are truly real and near us all!
Tuesdays With The Angels-Angel Stories on YouTube
In my latest novella, New Angel In Town, I’ve taken most of the angel stories told to me and combined them in a fictional storyline. These encounters feature my own encounters, encounters from family and friends, and some angel encounters from the many who have opened their hearts to me at book fairs.
I treasure each story which inspirationally have added to my belief in heaven and angels. Contained in my novella with their fictional spin, all of the stories are true and changed each person’s life. To me, I was meant to write novellas, a children’s book, and a memoir to let all who read my work know that our guides and angels are here for us at all times. They may just change us for the better and place hope in our hearts. Wrapped for readers in my blogs and YouTube, I will start with the very first encounter that changed my life, setting me on a course of creativity, gratitude and knowing for sure love never dies and we go on. 
Tuesdays With The Angels-Angels Butterflies & Little Miracles
Eleven years ago on my birthday, I flew to California to be with my son. My husband had passed away a few months before. I stayed at a hotel by the freeway and the wall of the freeway was just outside my room. The wall was covered in vines and summer flowers. As I settled in, a myriad of butterflies caught my attention. I’ve always loved butterflies. I sat by the window and began writing about grief, butterflies and angels.
That night, my son took me to dinner on the patio of a lovely restaurant. In the cool of the California evening, I read his card with a butterfly on it. “Mom, You will get your wings and fly again soon. Love Mike.” It was a meant-to-be moment. Butterflies on the wall and in the card and sentiment.
In the years that have followed, I have written more books in the Mystic Bay Series and then a children’s book called, When The Angel Sent Butterflies.
However, months after my book was published, a little miracle happened. My daughter, her husband, son, and new baby girl, sat on the steps of their apartment building in New York City. A butterfly landed on my son-in-law’s finger first and then fluttered to the shoulder of my daughter. Then surprisingly, the butterfly landed on my baby granddaughter’s shoulder too! They captured each moment with their cell phones.
I believe angels are always around us. Sometimes we see butterflies at just the right moment to give us the light of hope in our hearts.
In my Mystic Bay Series, my character, Angel Ken, sends calming love on the wings of butterflies. I believe angels send us butterflies at the very moments we need them like on a birthday card or miraculously to land on our fingers and shoulders. This to me is heaven’s way to remind us of God’s love.
& This beautiful saying:
Just When The Caterpillar Thought It’s Life Was Over It Became A Butterfly. 
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Tuesdays With The Angels-Special Needs Children-Angels Unaware
My life would change years ago while in high school. It was during the days when kids with special needs weren’t allowed in public schools. My gym teacher asked me to monitor four girls with special needs because they had swimming lessons at our high school. I was to help them get ready for their lessons. Why was I asked? I was a teenager with low self esteem and an underachiever academically. But the teacher asked me and I obliged. Did my teacher find a way to help me feel good about myself? Did she see something caring in me I didn’t see? I had a heart for the kids ever since I was little and saw a child bullied outside of the school.
After college I had two thoughts. One was to pursue acting and the other was teaching kids with special needs. I decided acting wasn’t for me but I didn’t have a degree in education. But miraculously or shall I say with synchronicity, I was given an opportunity to work with the children again in a private school setting in a church.
I loved my job. I learned by interacting with the children as I had no training. I was blessed with two fantastic assistants who knew more than I did about the diagnoses and behavior. But I learned. As I went on, I learned more by getting a masters degree then by raising my own children. I went back to work when my kids were in school.
Instinctively, I knew the children were my teachers. They were like angels to me. Their love was uncondiditonal. There was never an agenda but mostly kind souls navigating their own lives. Some had supportive families while other did not. I found they brought out a gentle nature in me, a calmness. There was always a kindred spirit feeling when I was with them. I knew they were the most important teachers I would ever have.
When sadness came and my daughter passed away, these children with special needs were kind and empathetic . Like my own children, they needed me and I needed them. They were comforting, caring and seemed to have a wisdom about the needs of the emotions of others.
Years later, my sister encouraged me to write a memoir about my experience teaching them. I realize I am the mother and grandmother I am now because they taught me about life, loving the now, forgiveness and finding joy in all accomplishments as well as the little things. The students embraced learning and loved succeeding. They seemed to know instinctively who were their advocates.
It is with such gratitude toward heaven that their grace glowed around me. The shy girl with self esteem issues changed the day when I first volunteered. I thrived, and had goals for the future. Helping them helped me mature and grow. For twenty-five years I was blessed to have the privilege of teaching Special Needs Children The Angels on my Shoulder.
Tuesdays With The Angels-Be The Light
‘Be The Light‘ is a simple phrase with oh so much meaning. Here I am, a writer for many years now, and with books to share I’ve not had the forethought to use these very words that mean so much to me.
To me being kind to all and being the light for those you love in as many ways as you can means everything. It’s like my other favorite phrase, ‘Random Acts of Kindness‘. Kindness is a theme in all my books. It is in my thoughts each day if I talk to my husband, children, grandchildren and friends. But it is also the perfect way to speak to a stranger. A kind word, a nod, a smile are rays of light for someone else’s day. It’s a way to show gratefulness to God and the angels that we get how precious our lives and the lives of others are to humanity.
Being the light in other’s lives brings hope, peace, and joy to the world. But also we must remember to bring light to ourselves. The older I get, the longer I live, I know this to be true.
Years ago, a homeless man ran up to me in New York City as I walked to my daughter’s apartment. “I need six dollars for medicine,” he said as he tried to keep up with my fast walking. Never closing my handbag, a habit of mine, I reached in and gave him a twenty dollar bill. He said, “Thanks,” and ran on ahead but abruptly turned around and said, “You’re an angel.” He then ran on and I didn’t question he really needed the medicine. I pictured him going into the drug store to get what he needed. I was pleased with myself. I knew I was a light for him that day.
But now years later I wonder, maybe he was an angel, teaching me how showing random kindness is such an intregal part of love. How being the light helps me grow into all I can be. Being The Light is forever in my hopes for a good day. The character, Madam Norma, who is in all my books always says, “Kindness is the first ingredient of love.”
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Tuesdays With The Angels-Message From Above
Kate, my late daughter, was the sunshine of my life. She passed away years ago but her memory is embedded in my heart. I dream of her upon occasion, yet it one dream she spoke to me.
She was sitting on the couch with her twin brother and sister. I had been worried that day about whatever problem had come up. In fact I was ruminating about it. But love has no boundries between heaven and earth. Kate looked up at me and said, “Just live.”
Wasn’t this a voice of reason for me to ponder at just the right moment? I woke up realizing that today, the now, is all we ever have. We can look back with regret on many decisions or happenings or we can look forward and believe in today.
I have precious memories of her that no one can take away. She was the sweetest little girl and welcomed her twin brother and sister with love, caring for them calling them, our babies and then, our twins. She lived a life full of love for her family knowing we loved her and she knows that still. Kate is in heaven’s realm with angels by her side. I feel her with me every day. I’ve written ten books with angel themes. My latest, ‘New Angel In Town‘, reflects all the true angel encounters family, friends, and those I meet at book signings have told me. I treasure her memory and go on. I have people to love and animals to care for and hope for the future. “Just live,” Kate said. It was a beautiful message for everyday from my heavenly daughter.