Stories About Loss & Grieving
Story of the Week, February 13, 2010, Angel of Mercy
Eva and her mother were at the hospital, sitting at the bedside of her father. He was very ill and hadn’t spoken in several days, and although she and her mother had prayed so hard, it looked as if her father was not going to recover.
“Suddenly Dad began speaking, and praising the Lord!” [...]
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Wednesday December 2, Village at Victory Lakes, 1075 E. Victory Drive, Lindenhurst IL 1 pm Talk on angels, 2 o’clock book signing and tour
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Story of the Week, September 11, 2009 Remembering
—All through this day, 9/11/09, I have tried to come up with a theme for our angel newsletter due today. It’s been difficult.
—I had the honor and privilege of being able to interview the last survivor of the World Trade Center bombing, whose story ultimately appeared in my book, IN THE ARMS OF ANGELS. At [...]
Story of the Week, July 18 2009 Vision of Deirdre
Hello, angel lovers. Hope you are having a relaxed July. For a heavenly hug, click on this link:
http://www.goodnewsonlynetwork.com/Religion Perhaps it will remind you of a certain song?
And here’s our story:
Deirdre Mary McCormick, of Santa Rosa, California, was the fifth of ten children. She had long curly brown hair, green eyes and a gentle disposition. People [...]
Story of the Week May 9 2009
Hello, angel friends. You are the best! Lots of you sent get-well cards and notes to JoAnn Cayce who is recovering from pneumonia, and they just made her day/week/month! I knew all I would have to do is to mention this, and you would respond. JoAnn says she has never received this much mail, [...]
Story of the Week 2/14/09 Spirited Encounter
Jim Snyder would consider himself an ordinary man living an ordinary life, surely not one that involves angel sightings.But when his wife died of pancreatic cancer, Jim was devastated by her loss. He tried to hold everything together and deal with his grief. But as months passed and Jim’s heartache continued, “I began asking God [...]
Statues in the Ashes
Recovering from a painful divorce, Pat Dygart wondered if she’d be able to celebrate the approaching holidays. She had stored Christmas decorations and other memorabilia in the basement of her new house, hesitant to unpack them because of the hurtful memories they would invoke. However, she decided to set up her cherished Nativity [...]
Little Gift From God
Toward the end of her life, Diane’s mother, a cancer patient, was quite frail. One late-summer day, Diane decided to take her to a street festival at Oaks Park. As Diane pushed the wheelchair along, the two women looked at the wide variety of merchandise displayed. At one point they came across some vendors selling [...]
Lesson of the Watch
When Richard McCarrick died in 1987, those who knew him mourned. He had almost reached the proverbial “four score and ten,” and his extended family firmly believed that he was in heaven, but that didn’t stem their grief. Sadly, after the final ceremonies, Richard’s wife gathered together his favorite possessions to pass to [...]
Invisible Helper
Lisa Hanisch is married and the mother of two. She was baptized a Methodist, but her family rarely attended church when she was a child. “We were taught that there was a God, and He heard our prayers and guided us,” Lisa says, “but there was little formal training.” When she was [...]
