Anyone ever see, something/someone they thought could have been an, "Angel"?

My fathers spirit is always with me. He used to collect bicentennial quarters and would get mad if we spent one. When my daughter was 6, I took her to sea world for her birthday. She wanted to eat at Denny's that night. After we ate she wanted some money to play a claw machine and I told her no because we had spent a lot of money that day. When the waitress gave me back my change, she apologized having to give me so many quarters as they were out of one dollar bills. When I looked at the quarters, every one of them were bicentennial quarters. My dads way of saying "let her play the game. It's her birthday". She won a prize and told me that she won because her "pa pa" had sent her the money. I can always tell without looking when I receive a bicentennial quarter. Sometimes it is dad trying to get my attention about something but most of the time it is his way of letting me know he is with me. The last time I got one, Mom was in critical condition in the hospital. Dad sent it and told me to give it to mom. Mom had been calling out for him when she was in and out of consciousness. I think he was trying to let her know he was with her. It brightened her day. A lot of people have told me that its just a coincidence but I know it's my Dad.

After my dad died, mom "saw" him in the house. She would hear something and think she caught a glimpse of him. I have read this is not unusual when someone dies that you are close to. An Angel? I don't know, maybe.

When a neighbor died suddenly of a heart attack at 48, his young daughter said she would smell him at random times. Brain playing tricks? I don't know.

My daughter worked in hospice for a while and I asked her if she has ever seen or felt a spirit or know of anyone who has. She said she had and all of the nurses she worked with had a story about their experience with a departing soul.

If you believe in God, surely you believe in angels.

New2this PS - I'm pretty sure I only use about 5% of my brain on most days ;)

New2this - what a WONDERFUL gift, truly!!!! Thank you for sharing.

My BIL was returning home late at night when he noticed a car traveling at a high rate of speed heading right for him. He was unable to get out of the way. He was hit in the rear with a very hard impact, He felt his car begin to crush up and thought this is it , I'm going to be killed. All at once he felt a form lay on top of him and he knew he was being protected. He had to be cut out of the car and the police said he should have been killed. My BIL said when the " Angel" laid on top of him He just knew it was the Archangel Gabriel protecting him. He didn't know how he knew it was him but he just knew it was.. Everyone in our family always believed him because he was so very sure it was an Angel.

Yes, "Partsmom", so I stand corrected, that as much as 16% has more recently been proven to operate all at the very same time. And your point is? Do you have it all scientifically, religiously figured out 100%? Great. Please do tell. We are all waiting.

BTW, the idea that "we only use 10% of our brains" is a guess someone made years ago and has been disproved by modern brain imaging.

About a couple of days after my father passed away and we were preparing him for his funeral, I was bringing my mother to the hair salon. I am very clumsy, always have been and always will be. I had hurt my knee the month before he died. I had torn my meniscus. Anyway I had to go up this big step and I immediately lost my balance and my mom was behind me and I thought this was it. I was gonna hit the pavement hard and fast but instead I felt something or someone hold me up. That is a first in my lifetime ever! I knew it was my dad. It happened a few more times after that and I had not fallen those times either.
I do believe in Angels but I also believe that everyday humans, like you and me, can act as angels for others.

Wow, NJCinderella, that's neat. Ha-interesting, makes me wonder sometimes. "Experts" say we use like 7-10% of our brain capacity. Leaves 90 to 93% of the capacity for things we don't understand, hugh? Glad she's OK. :-)

My daughter was a serious car accident while she was in college. Another car cut her off and she hit a pole on the drivers side, crushing the door. Shaken and full of glass, she had to get out of the car through the passenger side door. An off duty firefighter driving by came to her aid and stayed with her until the ambulance came. He said it was a miracle she wasn't more seriously injured.

She had no recollection how she managed to get out of the car since she was so badly shaken. Later on, she saw finger shaped bruises on thigh as if someone had a tight grip on her legs to push her out the car. They weren't her hand print size and wrong angle for her to have done it herself. She said it was her guardian angel. Could have been!

Awesome story Mello, thanks for sharing.

We must all believe in Angels if we want full protection. Our loved ones who have joined the graces of heaven are Our Angels and they will always be there for us. I have been very blessed by angels when a bus almost killed me in New Jersey while visiting my grandmother, the bus actual was stopped by a force of angels that allowed me to carry on my life today, so, continue believing and seeing because they are all around us. Blessings from the daughter of an Angel Mother that went to heaven last month.

I have not seen an Angel, I have prayed very hard at times of need. I have prayed for support, guidance, love and I can assuredly say I have felt a divine response. All the sudden "knowing " what action to take, or a relief about a situation. God is a true and strong force in my life. I pray for guidance and to give thanks every day. I have no reason to disbelieve you saw a manifestation of God.

For those of you who enjoy fiction, there is a series by Carolyn Hart about a deceased person who gets sent from heaven (The Department of Good Intentions) to help mortals in danger. The official term for these "helpers" is emissaries and they are casually referred to as ghosts. I've often wondered why the author didn't use "angel".

Oddly enough, it is a murder mystery series, since the dangers she is sent to protect people from often involve some very bad guys.

This is very frivolous compared to what you are talking about here. I don't mean to make light of the topic, but I thought this series might appeal to some of you.

Hey all thanks for your answers and openness on the subject. Great stories. Patrice, you friend's story reminds me part of mine, part of an "Unsolved Mysteries" I saw long ago. A man had a wreck, (motorcycle I think), out in the country. Some people came to help him. They were like out of a very old photo, dressed in odd, long, black clothing and such. Current day paramedics came on scene and helped out. The victim remembered one of the "old time paramedics" as being key to helping him. He asked the modern day paramedics about her he wanted to thank her. Most did not know who he was talking about, did not ever see her. One did remember her, but did not know who she was. It turns out there had been a super old retreat on the grounds where the HWY now stands, facility long gone, now a county or country road surrounded by fields. But some of the retreat participants had been medical Dr.s and nurses...

Other 2nd hand account I know to be true for certain. My young Navy E4- Electrician Brother in Law. He landed a job at a pipe foundry after his time in the service. Pipes made of metal, a dangerous place to work. He made friends, formed relationships with co-workers. One who he saw as a very "level headed mentor" after 5 years, one night at "break time" said something odd. (They all worked 3rd shift.) At break, the 20 year foundry veteran asked the other guys if they had, "seen any angels" while working up near the foundry's roof? All quiet. Nope. Then he told the guys that he had. And, she'd been asking him to come to her. Break time over, back to work, ...the guy died with in the hour. He fell to his death. (Griffin Pipe, Council Bluffs, Iowa, 1984-ish). I think his name was Ray.

Thank you guys for being so forthcoming on an awkward subject I encountered this week. I knew there would be some out there in this community who could guide me. :-) Thanks.

my husband had passed away and I guess I must have checked out for about 3 weeks within my home. Don't remember what I was doing or what had occurred during that time slept I guess. I remember laying on the couch and I felt a hand pushing me into a an upright position even though no one was there. (I for one is deathly afraid of ghosts or apparitions and woulf have ran so fast the wind would carry you with me ) but I wasn't frightened at all. I got up and opened the front door my front porch was cluttered with 3 weeks of newspapers and the mailbox was overflowing. I picked them all up and put them on my kitchen table and the rubber band snapped on one of the newspapers revealing a page with an article that our local high school was offering credited evening classes as if I was on auto pilot I threw on a coat and enrolled in my first class 3 years later I had graduated as an RN. Those classes let me heal. And, yes there are angels and I believe that hand pushing me into a upright position was my mom.

I felt love, warmth & compassion from a woman known to be a healer. She grabbed my hand and I never felt so much warmth and she told me my mother is in Gods arms now. I always felt my mother was/is an Angel. She had this cherub smile and never seem to let pain get her down. Always had hope & love towards everyone. I miss her.

My brother-in-law passed last week, and his daughter told me that two separate people who came into his hospital room that afternoon told her that they had seen two angels in the room, one on either side of his bed. Shortly after that, he sat up in the bed (which he had not been able to do for a week), opened his eyes all the way, looked out the window, and his eyes went blank and he was gone.

Yes. I saw the clouds form into a dove shape, just last week. I took a picture. My mother had a stroke the next day. Maybe the 2 aren't related. It is just what happened. (Mother survived.)

There are signs all over of things we don't fully understand. The closest I came to angels is the night after my father died. I was in bed and woke up suddenly and there were angels off to the side just out of my direct vision. When I kept trying to turn my head to see who they were they just kept gently turning my cheek the other way so I could not see their faces but they were reasuring me my Dad was now safe. There have also been people I have encountered briefly at moments where I had to wonder if they were angels sent to help out.

What a beautiful experience for you New2this! Some would call these things coincidence and others believe it's conscious intervention. I'm of the mind that there is something going on besides coincidence but it is too far beyond our abilities to comprehend. I've had my share of mysterious encounters some pleasant others not so much. The culture that I was raised in discouraged trying to contact anything "spirit" related because you can't know if it is harmful. They believe in angels but I guess the attitude is to just let them do their job and simply be grateful :)

I find this stuff fascinating but I don't know what to believe so I'm with Gillian Welch (singer)...Let the Mystery Be.

I want -- no NEED -- to open my heart up so I can see the Angels all around me. Am thinking you all and this post is the start. Thank you....I just felt a teeny tiny nudge.

I know someone who I wonder about. He is light like the air and hard to know, but he is always doing little things for people. He's about 70 in appearance and does things like bring in treats for elders, take them to the store or doctor if needed. He is there if anyone needs him, and he never asks anything in return. When I see him I get the feeling of goodness, and wished I could be more like him. If he isn't an angel, he is mighty close to being one.

One day I went to a seminar. As I was leaving a lady I knew was going in and she waved at me. The only problem is that I know for a fact that she had been dead 2 years. Wasn't her twin or sister. She had a unique look. She waved first. I wish now I had followed her in and talked to her.

My friend told me that when her father was placed on hospice in the hospital that a wonderful nurse had stayed with them thru their fathers last night. She was the best nurse/person ever. When they went to the nurses station after the dad had died in the morning and asked for this nurse by name, no one knew who they were talking about. She called again when the night shift came in and again, no one heard of this wonderful woman. My friend swears to this day that she was an angel who was there to take her dad to heaven.

Are there angels? Look in the mirror. Of course! YOU are one too.

One time when I was poor as ever, I desperately wanted to attend a meditation event. In order to go to the event I would have to cancel a gig where I could make about $100. One of the devotees said if I have faith that my spiritual path was priority over the worry about money, I'd probably find the money. Well I literally did. I kept supressing my money worry, cancelled the gig, and signed up for the retreat. About two days before the event I was getting into my car and my intuition told me to look down. Right underneath my foot was a wallet with $80 in it. I brought the wallet into the building and asked what to do. Since there were no markings, cards, names or anything in the old wallet, they said, just enjoy the money! So I did.

Another time I prayed for God to send me sign so I would know for sure if the place I would be moving to next would be the right one for me. I had no idea where to move to. I was in my 20's and was ending a relationship with an alcoholic who I was living with. A stranger invited me to be her housemate. When I came to look at her incredible place she was renting there was a sign on the door to my bedroom and it said, "Home at Last!" I had told no one about my sign request. I lived there for three years and to this day I am still really good friends with the lady who had the apartment. That was back in 1980.

Occasionally I will find a coin (mostly pennies) but sometimes other coins in a shopping center parking lot or in the area of an entrance to drug/grocery stores, etc., and I will pick them up and keep them for good luck, and it always reminds me of a person whom I was very close to and who is now deceased. This person has been deceased for about 35 years and I don't have the opportunity to visit her grave much as it is in another state about 3,000 miles away from my home. I traveled to this city several years ago, and went to visit her grave, and on the top of the gravestone, exactly in the middle, was a penny with the heads up. I picked up the penny and kept it, and I still have it. It is one of my most treasured possessions.

Hey thanks Jubbabuddhaboo! Much food for thought, and great to have a "friend" out there who understands what I experienced as well. :-)

I was so taken in by the spiritual help that I sure didn't look to see if anyone else noticed, nor would I have cared. I have 100% faith and proof enough for me to know that God is here for us in many different ways: angels, relatives that have passed on that still love us, and the strange ways that our needs are met. You could need something and it appears: like the $20 bill in a story here.

Intuition is your connecting rod to God. Tune in and develop your intuition and you can navigate life a bit easier, I think. Have to separate what you want, what Ego wants from what is to be for you. That's hard but start with small things and you'll see that you can tune in to your own intuition. Very helpful.

With caregiving: I think my parents are not long for this earth. Mom went to the doctor and found the narrowing of a major artery. Dad is not in good shape either. Nothing I can do to save them. I must trust that this is the way it is and give the love how I can.

Not easy to love my mother. Can't communicate well with Dad: he's lost his vision and much of his hearing. But love can be felt. Ego junk must be dimmed and the love channel turned on. Even then it can be blocked on the other side!
Just let it travel as it will. Like light, energy, air. There is so much more than what we can "see" with our eyes. I want to "see" more with my heart. No matter obstacles. I am not saying I can easily do this! Much easier to just deal with myself and my intuition concerning myself.