On wing and a prayer: Lorna spreads word of the angels

Lifestyle – Judy Murphy talks to the best-selling author Lorna Byrne who sees angels and talks to God

 Lorna Byrne has to deal with sceptics and Doubting Thomases all the time. That’s no surprise, given that the best-selling author says she sees angels all the time, and talks to them and to God.

But Lorna, who discusses angels as matter-of-factly as most people would talk about family members, has no problem with her detractors. The woman who says that “everything I know I have been taught by the angels”, has high regard for sceptics.

“These people are questioning and I think it’s good that they are searching to know what everybody is in search of.”

For her, that truth is that we all have soul and that God has designated a guardian angel to each of us to help to protect that soul and bring us “safely home to Him”. Lorna’s job is to “give people hope” and make everybody aware that “you live because you have a soul and a guardian angel, who is the gatekeeper of your soul”.

Lorna says she knows this for a fact, because she has seen angels since she was a toddler – her first experience of life on the other side was via her brother who had died as a child. She remembers playing with him, she says. God came to her then, as did the angels.  “They told me they were angels and I understood.”

Not surprisingly her family warned her not to tell anybody about this.

But as Lorna grew older, angels kept appearing. Life wasn’t easy for the young girl who was born into poverty, as she recounts in her successful book, Angels in My Hair. Because of these visions and the fact that she was dyslexic, Lorna was regarded as being slow and she never learned to read or write properly. In fact, she had difficulty pronouncing the word dyslexia.

“I have no education at all, but it’s all about putting the message out there and helping people to change for the better.”

These days she can laugh about her inability to pronounce dyslexia because she knows she has been given a job to do – to make people aware of their guardian angels and of the importance of being guided by them. And given that her books have been published in more than 50 countries and translated into 27 languages, she is succeeding in that task.

 “Every single day, I am never alone but neither are you, even in the loo or in the shower. Your guardian angel is someone God has chosen and created for you. But you and I are greater than any guardian angel, because we have soul. Your soul is more beautiful than any angel and your angel stays with you because they are in the presence of that speck of light that is God. Angels don’t have that soul. We are more perfect and beautiful than any guardian angel, even in our worst state.”

Each guardian angel is specially appointed and goes with us when we die.

For more, read this week’s Galway City Tribune