Conversations with an Angel: A Story of Healing Through the Passageways of Grief by Charlie Siegel
Conversations with an Angel: A Story of Healing Through the Passageways of Grief
by Charlie Siegel
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My Ratings 4.3/5
Synopsis
Death could not kill love, and so through the bridge that was love, we would always be together...” Grief. It can be overwhelming in its strength over us. It can be one of the hardest things to overcome. But sometimes, if we allow the healing touch of an angel to step in and help us, we may suddenly find that we have everything we need to heal. That is the very lesson that the man at the center of this story comes to find. Stricken by grief at the death of his brother a couple of months prior, he takes to regularly walking Central Park in his hometown of NYC, seeking the healing touch of nature to find peace again. On one such walk, he happens to connect with a kind old man who comes to tell him just what he needs to know to have the power to heal… He teaches about the journeys of the soul through life and death and back to Heaven again. He teaches about the way that those who pass on from this world do not really leave forever, when the bonds of love stand as a bridge to keep us connected. He teaches with stories told uniquely from the perspective of souls in Heaven. And it is through this eye-opening, uplifting and healing tale that Charlie Siegel, the author of this short novel, hopes that anyone going through grief can find peace. Designed to be a resource during times of loss or hardship, Charlie’s first novel is here to help. It is just a short read at about 90 minutes reading time, easy to gain the messages from quickly. Raised in a spiritual lifestyle with generations of family members spending lifetimes focused on studies of spirituality, Charlie wishes to pass on the lessons he has been given in order to help others. This book is designed to give you the keys to heal your heart, and find peace in the face of loss. With elements of spiritualism and a big bunch of tried-and-true hope, this book can bring us all to a place of peaceful contemplation. If we quiet our minds and let the angels be heard, perhaps we will come to find that our grief is really a passageway to a place of healing. Our loved ones are there, with us in spirit.
My Thoughts
I picked up a copy of this book because my friend was reading it and I like the books title. I figured it was a short book, it wouldn't take along time, and it would give me a sense for what we get to learn through this book. Oh man, was that a mistake. It didn't do any of those things. Instead, I fell deeply in love with this book and have read it three times in the last two weeks. It's the kind of book that works on more than one level - it is through this eye-opening, uplifting and healing tale and if that's all you get out of the book, then that's fine, but there's more going on here.
The difficulty of the book is figuring out what that more is. The book constantly suggests and hints at lessons that seem at once a comment on ethics and metaphysics, history and anthropology tale. There's always the sense as you read that there is something lingering under the surface, but the minute that you try to grab it (or write it in a review) it seems to disappear. That seems to be the point of the book, that the message is clear if you read it without trying to grab it. Hold it loosely and it comes easily, try to describe it and it flits away.
The book is allusive; it works on you without seeming to, and at the end you're left both satisfied as the adventure concludes and also wanting more, or perhaps wanting to do more and hopes that anyone going through grief can find peace. Designed to be a resource during times of loss or hardship perhaps that's why I like this book so much - it doesn't yield its secrets easily, or perhaps it yields it too easily, and you finish wondering where your heart and your mind lie and what your personal interest might be.
I imagine that this book might say more about its reader than its text: when you know your own heart and your own journey well enough, perhaps this will only remain a passing, although enjoyable tale flushed with life changing wisdom.
Highly Recommended!
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