Our granddaughter, Jager, is spending some time with us right now. She is six years old. For the first few nights, bedtime proved challenging because she’d be tired, homesick and not real crazy about the idea of sleeping alone in a strange bedroom. To help the situation, I read her Susan Ekberg’s picture book, Pink Stars and Angel Wings. In the book, little Kari learns that she has a special star, which becomes her guardian angel. Kari visits with her angel and in the morning when she wakes up thinking it all must have been a dream, she finds a feather on her pillow. Jager and I talked a lot about guardian angels, and how even when Mom and Dad or Papa and Granny are in another room sleeping, her angel is there with her.
The next day, Jager noticed a white feather I had tucked into the frame of a mirror and asked for it. “Maybe your angel gave it to me, so I could give it to you,” I suggested to her. A few days later, we had an outing to my friend Sandy Fynboh’s studio, Blue Sky Beads. There Jager found a good stick and Sandy created a fairy wand for Jager by wrapping the stick with ribbon and little jingle bells and beads. I know I have a good imagination, but everyone could feel a little sparkle when Jager would wave the wand around their head three times. She found it especially helpful to take the itch away from mosquito bites. In Minnesota that is magic indeed!
We tucked Jager’s special feather into the ribbon of her wand and it took on a whole new, beautiful cast.
Today, Jager asked if we could go back to Sandy’s and make a necklace with her feather. “But your feather is already a part of your wand,” I told her.
“Can I have one of your feathers?” she wanted to know. I told her no, they were special to me. “But you can ask your guardian angel for another one.”
Jager stood and went to the window and said in a commanding voice, “Angel, give me another feather.”
“Keep your eye on the ground, now,” I said.
Within two hours, Jager ran into the cottage to show me a lovely soft gray feather she’d found near the shore.
One more thing that makes me certain Jager has a very special angel indeed. I was chatting with my friend, Sylvia–a gifted psychic, two nights ago when I told her I needed to go because it was getting close to Jager’s bedtime. Sylvia messaged back that I should give Jager a hug from Auntie Sylvia and to tell her, “The stars twinkle in the sky every time she smiles.” Then Sylvia added, “I don’t know why, but something told me to write that….”
A powerful guardian angel watches over this precious little girl.
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