A caring friend sent the sister of a murder victim the book Angel On Board because she had heard the author speak of the extraordinary relief from grief its readers had experienced. She wanted to help, but she wasn't sure how she could until she heard about this special book about one man's death, entrance into heaven and new life as an angel who is able to help his loved ones through the transition of his sudden death. After reading Angel On Board, the sister found comfort and ordered twenty more copies saying, "Everyone in my family needs this!"

EJ Thornton, the author of Angel On Board was very touched by this letter but also says she gets letters like that quite frequently. The book was never intended as a grief ministry but many of its readers have received it that way telling her the book helped them overcome many types of grief issues from survivor's guilt to denial. "Somehow the angels in the story reach through the pages and touch the reader making them both laugh and cry until they feel better," Thornton says in her lectures.

Many persons have the wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.


Never bend your head. Hold it high. Look the world straight in the eye.


No pessimist ever discovered the secret of the stars or sailed an uncharted land, or opened a new doorway for the human spirit.


One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar.


~Helen Keller