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Introducing ... Victoria

31/7/2013

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Victoria is one of a group of angels
honouring those who have died suddenly.

"I saw the tracks of angels in the earth:
the beauty of heaven
walking by itself on the world."


Petrarch

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VICTORIA
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Introducing ... Mary

30/7/2013

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Mary is one of a group of angels, guides,
to help us make sense of our violent world.

"Be a light unto the world, and hurt it not.
Seek to build not destroy.
Bring My people home.

How?

By your shining example.
Seek only Godliness.
Speak only in truthfulness.
Act only in love.
Live the Law of Love now and forever more.
Give everything require nothing.
Avoid the mundane.
Do not accept the unacceptable.
Teach all who seek to learn of Me.
Make every moment of your life an outpouring of love.
Use every moment to think the highest thought,
say the highest word,
do the highest deed.
In this, glorify your Holy Self, and thus too, glorify Me.
Bring peace to the Earth by bringing peace to all those whose lives you touch.
Be peace.
Feel and express in every moment your Divine Connection with the All,
and with every person, place, and thing.
Embrace every circumstance,
own every fault,
share every joy,
contemplate every mystery,
walk in every man’s shoes,
forgive every offense (including your own),
heal every heart,
honour every person’s truth,
adore every person’s God,
protect every person’s rights,
preserve every person’s dignity,
promote every person’s
interests, provide every person’s needs,
presume every person’s holiness,
present every person’s greatest gifts,
produce every person’s blessing,
pronounce every person’s future secure in the assured love of God.
Be a living, breathing example of the Highest Truth that resides within you.
Speak humbly of yourself,
lest someone mistake your Highest Truth for boast.
Speak softly, lest someone think you are merely calling for attention.
Speak gently, that all might know of Love.
Speak openly, lest someone think you have something to hide.
Speak candidly, so you cannot be mistaken.
Speak often, so that your word may truly go forth.
Speak respectfully, that no one be dishonoured.
Speak lovingly, that every syllable may heal.
Speak of Me with every utterance.
Make of your life a gift.
Remember always, you are the gift!
Be a gift to everyone who enters your life,
and to everyone whose life you enter.
Be careful not to enter another’s life if you cannot be a gift.
(You can always be a gift, 
because you always are the gift--
yet sometimes you don’t let yourself know that.)
When someone enters your life unexpectedly,
look for the gift that person has
come to receive from you…
I HAVE SENT YOU NOTHING BUT ANGELS.”

Neale Donald Walsch, Conversations With God: An Uncommon Dialogue, Vol. 
 


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MARY
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Introducing ... Lauren

29/7/2013

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Lauren is one of a group of angels
ministering to us,
mediating love,
as we grieve for those who have died violently.

"The golden moments in the stream of life
rush past us
and we see nothing but sand;
the angels come to visit us,
and we only know them when they are gone."

 
George Elliot 

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LAUREN
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Introducing ... Caroline

28/7/2013

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Caroline is one of a series of angels
commemorating those children who have been killed.

"Ever felt an angel's breath in the gentle breeze?
A teardrop in the falling rain?
 Hear a whisper amongst the rustle of leaves?
Or been kissed by a lone snowflake?
Nature is an angel's favourite hiding place."


 Carrie Latet 
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CAROLINE
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Introducing ... Emilie

27/7/2013

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Emilie is one of a series of angels
honouring those killed in massacres.

"If instead of a gem,
or even a flower,
we should cast the gift of a loving thought
  into the heart of a friend,
that would be giving as the angels give."

 
George MacDonald 

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EMILIE
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Introducing ... Jessica

26/7/2013

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Jessica is one of a series of dolls
honouring the dead.
We often refer to children who have died as
'Our Little Angel'.

"These things I warmly wish for you:
Someone to love,
some work to do,
A bit o' sun, a bit o' cheer,
And a guardian angel always near."

 
Irish Blessing 

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JESSICA
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Introducing ... Arielle

25/7/2013

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Arielle is one of a series of angels
remembering those, especially children, who die violently.

"The soul at his highest is found like God,
but an angel gives a closer idea of Him.
That is all an angel is:
an idea of God
."
 
Meister Eckhart

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Introducing ... Anne Marie

24/7/2013

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Anne Marie is an angel
inviting us to pause and remember
those who have died violently.

"To see an angel,
 you must see another's soul.
To feel an angel,
you must touch another's heart.
To hear an angel,
you must listen to both."
 
 
Unknown 

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ANNE MARIE
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Introducing ... Lucita

23/7/2013

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Lucita is another tiny worry doll.

"If the problem can be solved why worry?
If the problem cannot be solved
worrying will do you no good.”


Śāntideva
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Introducing ... Gretchen

22/7/2013

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Gretchen is one of my worry dolls, made from a 2cm wooden spring peg.

"Worry never robs tomorrow of its sorrow,
it only saps today of its joy.”


Leo Buscaglia

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