Your Guardian Angel

Do You Believe in Guardian Angels?

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These things I warmly wish for you: Someone to love, some work to do, a bit o’ sun, a bit o’ cheer, and a guardian angel always near.

— Irish Blessing

I think I must believe in guardian angels.  Why do I think that?  And why don’t I know for sure?  Let’s start with a question that comes before those two – why am I asking about believing in guardian angels??  Well, it started with PattiAnn’s post, Protect Yourself when she asked:

Do you know what you believe and do your beliefs empower you?  Do you still believe in you?

And then I listened to me talking to myself about the incident I’ve decided to call “Out of Sorts”.  Here’s my Out of Sorts Story and I’m stickn’ to it:

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Angels to the Rescue

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We are each of us angels with only one wing, and we can only fly by embracing one another.

— Luciano de Crescenzo

Happy New Year and welcome to 2010!  Whether we want it or not, the new year is here.  In the past, I’ve usually greeted the new year as an opportunity full of possibilities, I must confess that this New Year I am less than enthusiastic about the future.

You may have noticed (or maybe you didn’t) that for the last two weeks of December, Ellie was the lone voice writing here on BouncebackCafe.com.  Up to this point, through a combination of good planning and luck, we’d pretty much managed to balance out the writing assignments during good times and bad.  Thanks to Ellie for filling in during one of the busiest times of the year.

This post is the story of how my father was rescued from a potentially disastrous situation by the often unsung angels who watch out for us every day.

You Just Never Know…

My father had taken his annual December trip to visit my sister and her kids.  He goes to see the various Christmas shows in which his grandkids are “stars.”  Usually he is there for Continue reading » Angels to the Rescue

Cup o’ Inspiration

cup with steam swirl

Take a short break and consider the following:

“But we can all be angels to one another. We can choose to obey the still small stirring within, the little whisper that says, ‘Go. Ask. Reach out. Be an answer to someone’s plea. You have a part to play. Have faith.’ The world will be a better place for it. And wherever they are, the angels will dance.”

Joan Wester Anderson
from her book Where Angels Walk

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