Angel on Board Tells of Valentines from Beyond

Angel On Board is a fictionalized version of events in its author’s life. “Most of the ‘human’ events happened,” EJ explains to her readers when she tells the story behind the story of the writing of the book, “but not necessarily in the order that they appear in the book.” 

Some of the real events are the deaths and births depicted in the book correspond to characters in EJ’s family and some of the astounding coincidences such as the slot machine wins, the accidental way she found out she was pregnant, the father’s alcoholism and infidelity, and the way the child was named were all taken from the real-life story that inspired the novel. 

Twice this past February, however, two different readers wrote to tell her that the ‘Valentine Story’ had come true for them. Taken from the book, the angel Martin, who was the husband of Glory, on the day of his funeral ‘placed’ the last Valentine’s Day card he gave his wife where she would find it, to remind her of his love for her during a time in her life when she needed assurance that his love still existed and hadn’t died with him. Martin ‘found’ it in a stack of special letters and papers and pulled it to place it where it would appear that it had just ‘fallen’ off the desk. Then he made sure that she found it just when she needed to find it. EJ’s readers had even more astounding stories about their Valentine’s from Heaven. 

The first was a recent widower who faced his first Valentine’s Day without his wife of 34 years. She died of a brain aneurysm the August before. Five days after Valentine’s day this year, he made one of his daily trips down to his basement workspace and received a surprise. There, on one corner of his desk, was an envelope addressed to “My Love.” It was two Valentine’s cards, one taped inside another. The first was dated 2/19/2001 – and even sent an apology for the card ‘being late’ but sent all her love.