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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Angel Country, November 30, 2005
If you don't believe in angels, you just might reconsider the possibility after reading "Angel Country." Author Ria Biley is not suggesting that angels are limited to the state of Maine, rather, this is where she became consciously aware of angels in her life.
"Angel Country," a neat little biography of what angels are and how they manifest to anyone open to their presence, is a compilation of true stories about "ordinary people whose lives have been touched in extraordinary ways. They tell of rescues, healings, voices and visions-miracles large and small, touching all levels of the human condition."
Biley, who believes the writing of this book chose her, points out that she believed in the activity of angels in her life years before beginning this book, and that the timing of angels as an "in thing" was synchronistic to when her book was published. This, to her, speaks of the relevance and power of angels in our lives.
Following a section on topics like how angels manifest, degree of encounters, and why angels are interested in us, Biley moves into the stories of angels by degree of encounter in the lives of people who live in Maine, although the angelic encounters may not have taken place here.
Some of these interventions were quite dramatic, such as one Biley experienced firsthand, when she was miraculously saved from certain death in a sudden, impending car wreck-ultimately, the vehicles never so much as touched.
Biley tells us that nearly every angelic encounter in her book had an eyewitness account to the intervention.
I suspect the most common form of an angelic encounter is when an individual stops what s/he is about to do at the sound of a voice warning of either impending danger, or to do something other than what they were about to do.
Two stories shared by different people (different times/places) who, while driving, heard a commanding "voice" instruct them to "pull over" or "slow down"-both individuals were spared what surely would have been serious, if not deadly car accidents by heeding the instructions given by these voices.
As further explanation on what angels are, Biley tells us that there is evidence to "support the conviction that Angelic civilization existed long before Man." And, although "we don't become Angels after death, we do join them, and get to live on the same spiritual plane with them. Angels come to escort us from this life to the next-they accompany our souls home to the dwelling place of the Creator."
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
Sweet collection of stories designed to enhance faith, February 29, 2000
For anyone who adamantly believes in the power of God and His helpers, or at least continues to have faith that acts of kindness are possible in a world overrun by violence and turmoil, Angel Country offers an outlet of that faith and offers the theory that perhaps there is indeed a benefit to prayer. One need not look to Maine to find angels, but as Biley believes, it is not a bad place to start.
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