14 May  2026

Have you ever met an angel?
I have a beautiful angel, a friend, here in Storrington, who has been kind, encouraging and helpful ever since we first arrived in St. Mary's and once we met an angel in Courmeyeur, near Mont Blanc in Italy when we were backpacking around Mont Blanc.
We had had a very long mountain walk, finishing with a bus ride into the town so we were very, very tired. When we arrived, we looked up, on a very useful map in the bus station, exactly where the hotel we had booked into was and duly plodded off towards it. As we left the bus station a young man on the other side of the road hailed John by name although we did not recognise him.
He chatted away, asked us where we were staying, then said, "Oh, that's where I'm staying, too, I'll show you where it is."
And took us off in the opposite direction!
He was right; it was the hotel we were booked into! Had we continued in the direction we were going, as we found next day, we would have ended up at a derelict building about a mile from where we should have been.
We never did find out who he was or how he knew us. In fact we only saw him once more, and that only from a distance, but there he was, in the right place at the right time to help us when we were in need.
You see, that's what angels are, really.
Forget fluffy wings, harps, and long white nighties, beautiful as they are - angels are simply messengers from God, often ordinary people who are in the right place at the right time to give you a message that He wants you to hear.
You might be an angel: it may be that you have said or done something, God-prompted, that has made a huge difference to someone's life but you have never known it. Or vice versa.
The point is to treat everyone with respect, as if they had come to you straight from God, because you never know how God may be speaking to you through them or how He may be speaking to them, through you.

With love
Jacquie xx


PS Just to let you all know, that I (we) will be writing no more "" Weekly Letters" after the end of May.
Thank you all so much for the encouragement you have given to both of us, especially me, over the last six years, for all the kind things you have said about the letters and for so many interesting comments and observations you have made on so many of them.
Jacquie (and John)