Diana Cooper’s book tells us that we are all given a special gift by God when we are born – a guardian angel who stays with us from the second of our birth. She states that our guardian angel stays with us all of our life, carrying a vision with them of the very best we could be during this lifetime and that our guardian angel loves us and does not judge us ever, even if we do things that go against their vision for us. They can only help us if we ask them to, although they can step in without our permission if we are in mortal danger before our time.

I took great comfort from the thought that I am always loved and never alone, and that I have a ceaseless source of support – and that I have someone who is looking out for me. Now I know of my guardian angel I am sure she helped me to control the car during an incident that could have taken both my and my ex-husband’s lives – a quiet and calm voice asked me to take my foot off the accelerator as I started to lose control of the car. At the time I did not know anything of angels but it did strike me that the voice came from outside of me but was somehow in my head.

When I have needed to know I am not alone, my guardian angel has caused candles to flicker and has left white feathers for me so that I know she is there. There was one particular time that stands out for me, which took place after our first short separation and I had taken my husband back. We were due to go on holiday to America together. 2 days before we left he told me he was not going. I was heartbroken. I didn’t know the sorry reasons why he could not come, but knew in my heart it was likely to mean the end of our relationship. In a sad state of lovely red eyes and uncontrollable tears, I still went walking with a friend on the sand dunes near to my village. I am not exaggerating when I say we saw hundreds of white feathers on that walk – all white and beautiful. Just when I really needed to know I was not on my own I was sent an unmistakeable sign that my angel was with me. At other times I have felt the warmth of my angel’s love in my heart and the tingle of her touch on my hair. I don’t hope she is with me, I know she is. I am not in a state of hope that I am not alone – I know that I am not.

A most beautiful thing to me is that you can ask your guardian angel to wrap her wings around you and help you feel loved and protected – and that you can also ask this for other people. I started to do this one night, but struggled to ask such a lovely thing for just one or two of the people I loved or was concerned about. In the end I spent that one night asking this for everyone I knew!

I am often asked if your guardian angel is someone who has died. Whilst I do not see myself as an expert in any way on this matter, I believe that we are supported by the spirits of those we have loved and who have left us, and that their support is additional to that of our Guardian Angel.

Some people will find this comforting or even interesting, and others will not – which is absolutely fine. This is not an indoctrination, it is an introduction, which at the very least gives you an idea of what a guardian angel is!