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  • Angels on Earth magazine2 min read
    A SELECTION FROM Walking in Grace
    April showers bring May flowers, they say. But what does March bring? Mud. Especially here in the Berkshires, where we had a lot of snow accompanied by a lot of cold that kept the ground covered for most of the year until a brash March heat wave swep
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    Angel Sightings
    Our grandson Luke lives about 60 miles from us and often comes for sleepovers when school is out. At nine years old, he’s very active! To keep our energy up during Luke’s visits, we spend as much time as possible outdoors, away from computers and tel
    Angels on Earth magazine2 min read
    Down To Earth
    You’ve often heard me bemoan the fact that my southern blood just can’t abide these northern winters. Even my teeth get cold. Winter was a season I only knew from poems and picture books when I was a kid growing up in New Orleans. Snow was the stuff
    Angels on Earth magazine1 min read
    The Collector
    Mom collected everything from cookie jars to Barbie trading cards, but when the Beanie Babies craze got hold of her in the late ’90s, she became obsessed. She loved the stuffed animals’ soft, squishy bodies and tender eyes. She’d stand in long lines
    Angels on Earth magazine3 min read
    A Reluctant Coach
    It was a Thursday night, three weeks after our basketball season had ended. I was in the lunchroom of International Christian High School greeting families of the players I had coached to a top 25 ranking in southeastern Pennsylvania. We were celebra
    Angels on Earth magazine2 min read
    The Love Meditation
    In my work as a psychotherapist, I often ask new clients if they believe in God. “If only I could experience God’s love,” one doubting Thomas said, “it would be so much easier for me.” While the mystical revelation of God’s divine love can happen at
    Angels on Earth magazine5 min read
    Angels in Bloom
    Last May I wanted to do something special for my high-spirited, 98-year-old friend, Delores, who was known to all as Aunt Ditty. She had one wish. “I’d like to visit my old school, Little Flower Catholic School for Girls,” she said. “Little Flower is
    Angels on Earth magazine3 min read
    The Bridge to Tomorrow
    Leaving the neighborhood diner, I heard someone call my name from one of the tables outside. I turned around, expecting to see a friend. But while I’d seen the man who was sitting there plenty of times, we’d never formally met. He was a familiar figu
    Angels on Earth magazine4 min read
    The Appointment
    It was a sunny August morning, and my husband, Neil, and I were staying at our three-season cottage in New York State’s Adirondack Park. I was recovering from a hip replacement and had a 10:30 appointment with my orthopedic surgeon at our local hospi
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    Daily Reminder
    Our plane had been sitting on the tarmac forever, waiting to be cleared for takeoff. I always worried about a trip not going well—everything from getting to the airport, to long-term parking, to our check-in arrangements once we arrived at our destin
    Angels on Earth magazine4 min read
    Turbulent Waters
    Every year, thousands flock to San Francisco to walk across that fabled vermilion span, the Golden Gate Bridge. They come for the sweeping views of the city, the fog-wreathed hillsides abutting cold gray waters. The bridge rises 220 feet above the ba
    Angels on Earth magazine1 min read
    Heaven’s Music
    I sat at the kitchen table with my morning coffee, feeling useless on this quiet Easter Monday. At 95 years old, I couldn’t help but wonder what plan God could possibly still have for me. I could just barely see the edge of my grandson’s piano in the
    Angels on Earth magazine6 min read
    Two Men, One Story
    I’ll never forget the day I discovered my passion. I was four years old, on a summer drive with my parents. We were outside of our Brooklyn neighborhood, in what seemed to be a whole new world. At one point, Dad came to a stop behind a railroad cross
    Angels on Earth magazine2 min read
    On A Wing And A Prayer
    My daughter, Sandy, and I decided to move in together. We wouldn’t have room for two households’ worth of stuff. A yard sale was the obvious solution. “We can donate the money we earn to the church,” Sandy said the morning of the sale. “I asked God t
    Angels on Earth magazine2 min read
    He Makes Winds His Messengers
    One warm spring weekday, I went alone to our countryside church to tend the flower beds. It was quiet, with my car the only one in the parking lot. I got to work, keeping busy to take my mind off problems at home. My husband had been distant and nonc
    Angels on Earth magazine5 min read
    Witness, Learn and Share
    He’d come to our church several Sundays in a row. He always walked in late, always sat in the back, always left early before I had a chance to speak to him. Surely he must have needed something but didn’t know how to ask. It was my job as pastor to h
    Angels on Earth magazine4 min read
    Love's Gift
    uncle Bob’s kitchen table. My husband’s grand-mother’s couch. Pots, pans and utensils I could do without. Our daughter, Micah, a college sophomore, had been collecting household hand-me-downs in advance of her move with a sorority sister into a place
    Angels on Earth magazine2 min read
    Letters & Messages
    My music ministry had to be put on the back burner while I cared for my husband in his last days. As soon as I was able, I resumed leading the Friday Singers group at church. One day, a widower named George asked if we could discuss a musical project
    Angels on Earth magazine2 min read
    Only Human?
    The summer after my junior year of college, I worked the night shift at a green bean cannery in Salem, Oregon. Driving home early one morning, my car sputtered to a stop just as I was heading up a long, steep hill. I had run out of gas! I spotted thr
    Angels on Earth magazine3 min read
    THE POLICEMAN AND THE Bee
    Nothing. I was pretty much a kid who was good for nothing. At least that’s how it seemed to me as I walked aimlessly along the street after school one day. I was in trouble. Again. I was nine years old—two years older than the other kids in my second
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    Angels On Earth Magazine
    President & CEO John Temple Senior Lead Editor Colleen Hughes Creative Director Kayo Der Sarkissian Editorial Team Morgan Beard, Meg Belviso, Sabra Ciancanelli, Sabrina Diaz, Kimberly Elkins, Amanda Ericson, Celia M. Gibbons, Lisa Guernsey, Jane Haer
    Angels on Earth magazine2 min read
    Earning Their Wings
    JENA MCKINSTRY, MOUNT DORA, FLORIDA While shopping one day, I spot-ted a battery-powered toy car on display and took it home for my Pomeranian, Koda the Fluff. She looked like a little marshmallow, happy behind the wheel of her new red convertible. S
    Angels on Earth magazine4 min read
    Just to Say Goodbye
    With the guidance of the hospice nurse, I helped Bob back in-to bed. We’d set him up in the bedroom just off the living room of our small house. With my husband resting comfortably for the moment, I slipped away to make some calls to family. Bob and
    Angels on Earth magazine3 min read
    Heavenߴs Visitor
    Hymns played quietly in the hospital room. We’d turned the lights down low. My sister, Laura, had been unconscious for several hours. I sat on one side of her bed. Her 21-year-old son sat on the other. Laura’s ex-husband and sister-in-law were there
    Angels on Earth magazine1 min read
    Lost & Found
    My three-year-old son, Matt, settled into bed. “Mom-my, I like our new house, but I wish we could find my puzzles.” I nodded. This move had been a challenge. The packers we hired put items in the most random places. I’d found the iron in a box labele
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    Early Morning Messenger
    Predawn walks with my poodle, Graci, used to be a favorite part of the day. We’d always ventured out extra early, so we had plenty of time together before I had to get ready for work. Now that I was unemployed, we continued our habit, but my fruitles
    Angels on Earth magazine3 min read
    My Best Casserole
    A recent bout of pneumonia had robbed me of my strength. I was getting better every day, but even simple tasks could still leave me exhausted. Around the house, I relied on my husband, Len, to step in with more of the housework than usual, especially
    Angels on Earth magazine2 min read
    A SELECTION FROM Walking in Grace
    The January wind stung my face as I kept to the side-walk. My dog, Old Sport, picked his way around the frozen patches of ice. “We’re almost home, boy,” I said. I was eager to get out of the cold. But I was not looking forward to finishing my repetit
    Angels on Earth magazine5 min read
    Just “Sister”
    Early on Christmas morning, the stockings hung full. I had an odd gift to put in one of them. A gift I wouldn’t have considered if I hadn’t felt God’s hand in it. For my stepsister, Jenny, I’d wrapped a DNA test kit, and now I felt torn. We’d been es
    Angels on Earth magazine4 min read
    Held Close
    Since the death of our adult son, Mike, every day was painful. I struggled through each waking hour, unable to take a full, deep healing breath. Every muscle in my body was tense and stinging from sadness. Especially my heart. I got into bed beside m

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