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I thought long and hard before deciding to share the extraordinary experience I had a while back on holiday in Tenerife. However, it was of such importance and has had such a profound affect on me that I wanted others to know what happened. I was not asleep, day-dreaming or drunk and am an honest, rational human being!
10/3/10
Tenerife, Gran Hotel Melia de Isora
Yesterday the angels came. Five of them. They came at lunchtime. They came with so much love. It was not until later in the afternoon that I truly experienced what they had brought. I saw the first one and commented to my husband about 'that beautiful cloud over there'. He attested to its beauty and carried on reading his book.
As I looked more closely I could see it was an angel. Clearly. A head with beautiful eyes which pierced my being. A mouth just slightly smiling. Extended arms and huge, wispy wings. The angel seemed to be female, so I will say 'her' dainty feet were crossed at the ankles. Her whole being was clothed in a flowing robe and the unusual scarcity of wind allowed each of us to view each other intensely for a very long time until she gently, gracefully slipped by.
Next to come to my notice and right behind the first was a very different angel. Small head. Hair in a plait, flowing behind and generally shaped like those angels in the snow which I see American children making in wintery films. As this angel slowly moved along to follow the first, three more of these fabulous cloud angels appeared, all with flowing robes and extremely large wings.
Was I the only person looking up at the sky? Was I the only person in the world who could see these five celestial visitors? Self-questioning my sanity, I decided that perhaps one angel-shaped cloud formation could be random. Maybe even two at a pinch. But five? Most definitely not.
I have been very aware of angels lately. I truly believe they surround us all, each and every one of us and are tirelessly, ceaselessly awaiting even the tiniest or maybe the largest request for help. We can ask for their assistance with absolutely anything and I believe they do whatever they can to accede to our requests. The sky has always been a source of wonderment for me. In it I find such changing beauty of colour, form and mood. I find upliftment from it in times of deep despair. There are always signs. Without fail, the signs I see are exactly the right ones to lighten each particular need. I am not talking about just any old problem but more of those deep, deep worries which occur from time to time. For me the sky is magical with signs and wonders and I am so grateful for it.
Before you think of sending for the men in white coats, I should explain that my husband and I were on holiday for a week in Tenerife. He had booked us in to a wonderful hotel in the hopes that we could each find some peace and easement. He had recently had a new hip and it was the first time he had travelled abroad since the operation. I think he was more concerned for me really. I had been very down of late with an ever-worsening, continuing bout of bad health. Four years of it with no sign of improvement was beginning to get me sometimes so angry and tearful, despite my profound beliefs.
For the last twenty years I have been a healer. My beliefs are unshakeable, so I know that nothing happens by chance. We are not given anything to bear which is too hard for us to take and I must have agreed to everything which has happened to me before I returned to the earth plane for this current incarnation. However, even absolutely knowing all of this, sometimes it is so very, very hard.
So when I thought about my five beautiful angel visitors later that afternoon and again today, I find that I have been lifted beyond belief. What a fantastic experience. What an honour to have had such a visitation. I am not now or ever alone in my troubles. Of course I know that anyway but this wondrous gift will now stay fresh in my head and I can draw upon it whenever I need to. It happened just for me. Me? How could I be so deserving? Plainly I am not, for there is nothing except ordinariness about me. The beauty in the face of number one angel was accompanied by wisdom, compassion and love, as I already said. She sent me a feeling of a gentle caress and I in turn, and sorry for it, seemed to send her my worries in exchange. It seemed acceptable to her.
It was such a moving, personal exchange and one which I would love to keep just for myself. That seems almost greedy though and I have the feeling that my five angels would wish for me to share what I saw. It is going to feel strange writing about me, for that is what I felt it was all about. I am just the opposite of egotistical and would always prefer to remain quietly in the background. However, as I feel I am told to do it, so I must.
Valerie Harris, London