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When Facing Your Mortality
The Archangels Guide Us
The first time I thought of my mortality was when my dad died from cancer. He was always bigger than life and seemed invincible, a real superhero. The cancer he endured weakened him and eventually took his life, but he remains my hero in so many ways.
After he died, I realized that someday, I would die, too. Of course, I always knew that, but it didn’t seem real, until I had to face my dad’s death. All in all, after grieving for a time, it had a positive effect on me, in that I stopped putting off my dream of becoming a published author. Over the next few years, I sold and saw published seven romance novels, under a pen name. My first goal was simply to complete writing an entire book. My second goal was to submit it for publication. After that, whether or not I ever got published wasn’t that important. It was extremely sweet icing on the top of my cake, but mostly, I was pleased and little bit relieved that I wouldn’t find myself on my death bed someday, wondering What if …
Fast forward over a decade, and here I am, having traded writing romance novels for sharing Angel messages and I’m still enjoying myself. It’s easier to think of mortality now, as I’m getting older. I know it’s coming at some point, as it does for all of us, and although I worry about any suffering I may have to go through, death doesn’t…
