Angel Marie: The Making of an Angel

By Sam Oliver

This book shares a story of transformation. It is a journey into what is highest in all of us. The Angelic qualities this Novel reveals are levels of awareness in each of us. Let your creative imagination reflect on the nature of soul, and how, each of us embody spiritual attributes known to be in the realm of Angels.

“Sam Oliver has done it again! Angel Marie ... is a thought provoking and heartfelt book. I am sure all of us have visited the place in us that spawned this story. We can all relate and appreciate the meaningful message in this book.” — Dr. Eric Shapira, Author of A New Wrinkle: What I learned from Older People Who Never Acted Their Age.

“A novel like no other of it’s kind on Angels as told through the eyes of a child. It helps add meaning to an unthinkable loss.” — Kara Sweatt, RN, BSN Director of Hospice Care

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• Language: English
• Publisher: Fideli Publishing, Inc.
• Release date: Mar 22, 2011
• ISBN: 9781604143423

Sam Oliver

Sam Oliver has cared for the needs of the dying in palliative care for over 17 years. During that time, he has served as the Chair, and a, Co-Chair of the Hospice Ethics Committee at a Hospice Care Center in Northern Ohio. He has served several years as a State Continuing Education Chairperson for the Association of Professional Chaplains. For well over a decade, Sam has been an active editorial review board member and contributing writer for Healing Ministry Journal, The Journal of Terminal Oncology, and The American Journal of Hospice and Palliative Care. He began his speaking about spiritual care over 15 years ago and continues to speak at public engagements on the local, national, and international levels. He has spoken at several college campuses and keynoted at several Hospice Conferences. His first book of four, What the Dying Teach Us: Lessons on Living, is a Doubleday Book Club, One Spirit, and National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization selection. Sam’s undergraduate study was at Georgetown College with a B.A. in Psychology. He received his Master of Divinity at The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, Kentucky, with an emphasis in the Pastor/Teacher track. In 2003, Sam Oliver finished his post-graduate certificate in Healthcare Ethics through Rush University in Chicago, Illinois. Presently, Sam Oliver is a Chaplain and a Bereavement Counselor for a Hospice Care Center in New Hampshire. For more information on this author: www.pathintohealing.com

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Angel Marie

The Making of an Angel

A Groundbreaking Novel by

Sam Oliver

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Copyright 2011, Sam Oliver

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This is a work of fiction. Names, places, characters and incidents either are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously, and any resemblance to any actual persons, living or dead, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.

ISBN: 978-1-60414-342-3

Library of Congress Copyright: Pending

"Sam Oliver has done it again! Angel Marie ... is a thought provoking and heartfelt book. I am sure all of us have visited the place in us that spawned this story. We can all relate and appreciate the meaningful message in this book."

— Dr. Eric Shapira,

Author of A New Wrinkle: What I learned from Older People Who Never Acted Their Age.

"A novel like no other of it’s kind on Angels as told through the eyes of a child. It helps add meaning to an unthinkable loss."

— Kara Sweatt,

RN, BSN Director of Hospice Care

Dedicated to:

My Angel

When I die,

I pray there will come a day

that the pain of my loss

becomes a faded memory.

My ego will merge into

all that ever has, is, and will be.

And then, the possibility

of others ever finding me again

will be in a place

where souls meet in tearful joy.

At that moment,

I will have entered into a path

my soul calls home.

And I can welcome you into my heart again.

—In Memory of Angel Marie

Contents

Introduction — A Place Between Heaven and Earth

The Making of a Soul

The Desire for Relationship

The Four Chambers of a Heart

The Conception

The Womb of Creation

The Birth of Angel Marie

The Wings of Heaven and A Final Goodbye

Closing — The Touch of the Master’s Hand

Acknowledgements

About the Artist

About the Author

Other Books by Sam Oliver:

A Fish Named Ed

The Path into Healing

Another Path into Healing

God a Logs on Living and Dying

Angel of Promise

What the Dying Teach Us: Lessons on Living

A Place Between Heaven and Earth

INTRODUCTION

Through the eyes of love, little Marie looked into her future in the Garden of the Gods. The Garden of the Gods is a place between heaven and earth where Angels dwell. It is here that they create life, and help others to do the same. It is the bridge between heaven and earth. It is the place where miracles are known to exist. A miracle is energy in formation. Anything you concentrate your attention on over time is energy information. We are transformed by what we hold dear to us and fill our heart with the experience of what we desire. This intent to dwell upon what we hold sacred is our soul.

And thus, the miracle of transformation manifests that which is formless into genuine reality.

Many people all over the world come to this place in their imagination to heal their body, create a work of art, heal relationships, find peace, and bring a new born baby to life. It is a realm where Angels are known to sing and dance into the hearts of those who enter this place until they are restored to health. It is the bridge into life, the place of transformation of death into life, and the place where souls encounter one another.

She was a sweet little angel who had no idea of the journey she was about to face. She had the heart filled courage of a lion, and the gentle presence of a lamb. She knew no fear and wanted nothing more than to fill the world around her with what she would soon know as love.

Little Marie lived in the Garden of the Gods, that wondrous abode between Heaven and Earth. Plant life abounded lush, plentiful and dark green. Everything was fresh and vibrant. She enjoyed the exuberant yet peaceful energy of this beautiful home and could not think of a better place to live. There were mountains filled with trees just like earth, only the trees were huge by terrestrial standards. They towered proudly into the heavens. The sun shone brightly most of the time as the clouds flew by below her view.

The nights were cool, but little Marie had no need for a cover to warm herself. The warmth that she felt simply from living in a place such as the Garden of the Gods provided all the heat she would ever need.

Mystery and magic filled the air in the Garden of the Gods. However, many days, little Marie would gaze