Comments on: Conversation with Joan Wester Anderson

By: SETIAWAN/YOEL

SETIAWAN/YOEL — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 05:23:22 +0000

Dear Mrs. Joan,
My name is Yoel , i am indonesian and now living and working
in china ,aye always like to read your books maybe about 4 books and always inspired by your writing and aye have several time has experience also help and assist by an angels and i married with 3 kids , Ryan,Jasmine and Abby ,(boy/girl/boy) so aye think your book is very very nice for moderen people in the end of world and its so wonderfull when people especially christian who really beleave in FATHER,SON,HOLLY SPIRIT in the name of YESUS CHRIST and if you need a story of christian/chatolic in my country who really was assist by an angels ,its really alot of story until you should write new books again maybe and if you need those story just email to me and may YESUS Bless you ////syallom- Yoel

By: Ann Bell

Ann Bell — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 02:56:33 +0000

Joan A angel took care of me and my 3 month old baby in a icy storm an I submitted my story to a magazine to be published but they never did. How do you get a story published? Please let me know. God Bless you.

By: Sister Julie

Sister Julie — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 15:25:15 +0000

Thanks for writing, Sharilee. I am so thankful that you and others walked away from that train crash. I’m sure your daughter is grateful too to have you with her during this time. Having been out of commission with Lyme disease for about a year, I know how tough it can be. My prayers are with you and your beautiful daughter.

By: sharilee

sharilee — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 22:52:55 +0000

My Mom raised me to believe in angels and the powerful protection they provide us during our journey on earth. I was in a train crash a few years ago that had the angels working overtime. A truck stalled on the tracks; our commuter train and a fuel train coming from the other direction hit it at the same time. Both trains were derailed and both engines blew up, with incredible fireballs swooshing past our windows. Our commuter train ended up teetering on the tracks with fire all around. Not 100 yards away from us was a nuclear power plant (I kid you not!). The angels were definitely on top of things that day as the worst injury was a fractured hand on one of the train workers. Everyone else escaped minus a shoe or a coat, but in perfect health.

More recently, my teenage daughter, who has contracted a nasty case of lyme disease, has been having more intimate experiences with angels. She has been horrendously sick for over a year and has missed all of 10th grade, now going into 11th. She has bouts of terrible insomnia and spends many nights wracked in pain but comforted by the angels who keep her company. She talks with them and with God during the night and they reassure her when she is scared and lonely. She’s always been a very spiritual child and in her early years could remember Heaven and would try to explain to us, although words can never do justice.

I, too, believe and am grateful for the presence of God’s helpers among us.

By: Joan Wester Anderson

Joan Wester Anderson — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 22:43:12 +0000

Joan: John, won’t it be wonderful when we arrive in heaven, meet our angel and discover how many ways he helped us when we weren’t even aware of it? J

By: Deacon John

Deacon John — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 20:46:17 +0000

I’ve had a strong devotion to the Nine Choirs of Angels for many years. I pray the St. Michael Chaplet, the St. Michael exorcism Prayer and the Guardian Angel Prayer every day (about 38 years now). Many times the Angels have come to my assistance. They have helped me even with finding a parking space in crowded NYC! Of course I haven’t seen any Angels (some Saints have and even had conversations with them) but I know they are at my side. An example was one dark rainy night about 20 years ago, I had gone to the store to pick up some cold-cuts for our kids school lunch’s. I didn’t want to go out that night because of the bad weather, but went anyway. As I pulled out onto the road after leaving the store, out of nowhere a car smashed into my rear-end. My car door opened and I flew out, landing on the black tar. The car continued down the road without me. I was completely unhurt, not a scratch; I ran after the car, jumped in and stopped it. The car was totally demolished and so was the drunken driver’s car that hit me. I ran back to the store and called the police who sent an ambulance for the other driver. After the police investigated and the cars towed away, I called a cab and went home with my kids lunch.
I look forward to seeing and thanking these Angels in Heaven one day, in the meantime I Believe!

By: Robin

Robin — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 13:06:57 +0000

Personally, my own belief in angels is much more simple than the artistically rendered visions of light and magnificence that has personified them in the art, collectible and pop culture world. I believe in angels as the everyday presence of God and God’s approachability and unconditional love in one’s life (as well as the not so everyday awareness of being carried by God in times of difficulty and in times of pure joy. ) This is a message Joan so beautifully articulates in her writings. But I also understand as a Catholic that we love and treasure icons and human imagery. I have 3 questions for Joan (no expectations you would answer them all, but I wanted to put them out there):

What are your thoughts about the connection between angels and the Trinity (I usually think of angels as being sent by God Creator (or Father, if one prefers)?

Do you consider the intervention of particular saints “angelic”?

And what about the notion of the infamous “fallen angel?”

Thanks for your presence here today.