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Nurses deal with death all the time and they tend to be very sensitive to the whole process. When they walk onto the ward in the morning, they can often sense which patients are going to die that day. If they’re not too busy, they can judge when to call the relatives to come and say goodbye, and, if there’s no time for that, they will sit with a dying patient themselves, holding their hand as they take their last breaths and slip peacefully away. Most nurses tend to be spiritual people with heightened awareness that helps them to notice messages from the other side. Here’s one nurse’s story of an angel intervention that really affected her.

I’d settled all the patients down for the night and was about to go and have a coffee in the nurses’ station when I saw a man standing in the ward. I turned to go and have a word with him but when I got there I couldn’t see him any more. The light was dim so I thought nothing more of it and went for my coffee.

Half an hour later, I saw the same man standing by the bed of one of my patients, down at the end of the ward. I walked along there and as I got closer I realised that he must be a spirit because his features were fuzzy and there was a kind of glow around him. His face looked beautiful as he gazed down at the elderly woman in the bed.

‘Is she your wife?’ I asked him.

‘She is my beloved,’ he replied, and I was struck by the old-fashioned phrase.

I looked at the lady in the bed and realised she was barely breathing. I pressed the call button and a colleague came hurrying up and together we worked hard to resuscitate her. By the time the doctor on call got there, she had a regular heartbeat again and he said that we had almost certainly saved her life.

When I discussed it with my colleague later, we agreed that the woman’s ‘beloved’ had made himself visible so that we would react. He had saved her life, not us. I found it very comforting because I had lost my mother at the age of fourteen and I’ve always had a feeling that she protects me but this was the proof I needed.

If you have a feeling that a loved one is protecting you and acting as your guardian angel, then it is true. Which relatives or friends do you believe are watching over you in spirit? I expect you have a very clear idea because they will have let you know by giving you a ‘feeling’ about it. These ‘feelings’ are your loved one’s way of letting you know that they’re there. Just as they can put words into your head, so they can put ‘feelings’ and emotions. As we will discuss next, they can even put an arm round your shoulder.