The White Feather

The White Feather

Published on August 10, 2018

The following story is from a friend who responded to our request to send us your Angel stories. We thank her for allowing us to share this beautiful story with you.

“The White Feather

I was reading how Padre Pio believed people could send their guardian angels to others to help them. And how he told his friends they could send their angels to him with a message and he would help as much as possible.

My mother-in-law was dying of leukemia. She had such a hard life. It was sad that she had to suffer. I asked my guardian angel, whom I pictured sitting across from me at my kitchen table, to go to Padre Pio. My message was to either heal her or take her peacefully to heaven. I then waved goodbye to him

I was looking out my window, imagining my guardian angel flying off and feeling very peaceful. I asked him, “By the way, do you think you could leave me a big, white feather, from your wing, on the kitchen chair where you were sitting, to prove you were really here?” I got up and looked on the chair, but there was no feather. “That’s okay, I still believe.” I proceeded to go into the living room and there, in the middle of the floor was a tiny, fluffy feather! He left it on his way out the door!! Not that guardian angels need a door to go through, but……….why not?

Mom died a few days later. Her suffering was over. I was walking on the boardwalk, watching the most beautiful sunset, thinking of Mom and thinking of the feather. Right in my path, sticking straight- up in the slat of the boardwalk, was a large white feather! “Dear Guardian Angel, you knew I really wanted that large white feather all along, didn’t you? Thank you …… but wait, ……….Mom, was it from you?” And ………………. why not?”