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Of Animals and Angels
By: Marguerite AntonioeBook Publisher: AuthorSolutions
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"Angels descending bring from above, echoes or mercy, whispers of love."
-Fanny J. Crosby
Angels don't always appear in our lives wearing wings and halos.
Since the beginning of recorded history, humans have found inspiration in tales of benevolent encounters with angelic beings. Angels can manifest in many ways-through the loving gaze of a dog, the unexpected warmth of a stranger, and even in the awe-inspiring beauty of nature. Whatever form these angelic messages take, they leave us feeling loved, protected, more cognizant of life around us-and sometimes, a bit wiser.
What a blessing this is!
Author Marguerite Antonio's heart and mind are open to these experiences, and here, she shares some of her favourite tales. Although the short stories and the characters within Of Animals and Angels are fictitious, she has been deeply inspired by the angelic presence in her own life-and its presence in the lives of others who have shared their angel stories with her.
It is her belief that everyone, upon searching and allowing his or her mind and heart to accept this phenomenon, will have angel stories to share-and these are some of those stories.
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| Title of eBook: Of Animals and Angels | |
| Release Date: 01-12-2012 | |
| Publisher: iUniverse.com |
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Of Animals and Angels
Chapter One
THE ANGEL AND THE TRAIN
I can still remember the last time I'd heard her tell the story. My daughters, age eleven and eight years, and I had gone to visit my grandmother at the Seniors Lodge where she now resided. Hers was a small, self-contained one-bedroom apartment with a tiny kitchen and small sitting room. The girls sat on a settee across from Grandmother's favorite rocking chair, and she bade me get a chair from the kitchen for myself. We'd just finished tea served in bone china cups and saucers, along with her favourite peppermint cookies.
My eldest could no longer contain her excitement. "So, Great-Grandma, tell us the story again, please," she pleaded. Grandmother smiled.
My grandmother was a tiny lady, not five feet tall, with an hourglass figure that she retained until her death at age 106. Her blue eyes sparkled behind silver wire-rimmed glasses, and she had scraped her steel-grey hair back into a bun that sat low on the back of her head. Despite her best efforts, tendrils of silver escaped to curl softly about her tiny face.
Grandmother loved to tell the story and would always address it to me, when I was present, even when my own daughters sat in awe as their great-grandmother told the story of the angel and the train.
"It was shortly before the end of the Second World War," she would begin. "You, your parents and sister, and I all lived on my small acreage outside the town of Yarrow in the lower mainland of BC. Your daddy worked for the government, trucking war supplies to the ports in Vancouver. Most of the men were involved in the war effort, so
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