Angels-FREEMAN, EILEEN ELIAS

Eileen Elias Freeman is the director of the AngelWatch™ Foundation,
Inc., a nonprofit organization that serves as a major resource center
on the topic of angels, and the editor and publisher of its bimonthly
newsletter, AngelWatch. She is the best-selling author of Touched by
Angels, (1992) Angelic Healing, (1994) and The Angel’s Little Instruction
Book (1994). She holds a bachelor of arts degree in comparative
religion from Barnard College and a master’s degree in theology from
the University of Notre Dame.
Eileen Freeman’s life has indeed been touched by angels. When
she was five years old her much-loved grandmother died. She had
always been a very fearful child, but when her grandmother died her
fears mounted to the point that she could not sleep at night. One
night she was sitting up in bed when a light started growing at its foot.
As she watched, the growing light began to take human form. The being, who identified himself as Eileen’s guardian angel, looked at the
young Eileen and told her not to be afraid, that her grandmother was
happy in heaven with God and the people she loved.
Freeman wrote Touched by Angels to show the many ways angels
affect the lives of humans. In the book she shares accounts of people
whose lives have been changed by angels, including her own. One of
the most important things she conveys is that when angels come into
people’s lives, they come to bring an important message, not for any
trivial reason.
When Freeman was in college, she was again touched by an angel,
quite literally this time. She was entering the apartment building of a
friend when she felt a hand on her shoulder that pulled her back. She
turned around but no one was there. She again started to go into the
building, but was again stopped. This time she heard a voice telling
her that it would not be wise for her to enter the building at that time.
When she called her friend later that day he told her that a woman
had been stabbed to death in the elevator by a drug dealer.
It was as a result of these encounters with angels that Eileen Freeman
founded the nonprofit AngelWatch Foundation, whose purpose
is to search for evidence of angelic activity in the world, and to disseminate
the information as widely as possible.
Later in her life, while preparing to be hospitalized for major
surgery, Eileen Freeman was again touched by an angelic presence. She
suffered a violent reaction to an antibiotic and was visited by an angel
who embraced her with light and warmth and peace. Within an hour,
she began to heal. It was because of this experience that Eileen wrote
Angelic Healing: Working with Your Angels to Heal Your Life. In addition
to her own experiences, Eileen relates the real-life stories of many
other people who have been healed through the intervention of angels.