7 Ways to Operate as an Angel on Earth

In this episode of Healing Her Halo, we’re exploring 7 ways to operate as an angel on earth — through speaking life, leading with compassion, protecting peace, serving quietly, offering hope, showing up consistently, and loving without conditions. Each point includes a real-life struggle that can make it hard to live out, along with a practical solution to help you move through it with grace.

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Welcome to another episode of Healing Her Halo, a women empowerment platform for women who've experienced trauma and the struggles of mental health. This is a safe space to gain guidance on how to navigate through the storms of life and how to stay present in the light when the sun shines again. Be sure to download, share, and subscribe so you can help heal another woman's halo. Now, here's your host, Patience Murray.

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Welcome back to Healing Her Halo, the space where we talk about healing, becoming, and stepping fully into the light you were created to carry. Before we begin, do me a quick favor. If this episode blesses you, please download it, share it with a friend, and subscribe so you never miss an episode. Every download and share helps this message reach more women who need encouragement, healing, and hope. Now, let's get in today's episode. Have you ever met someone and felt peace just by being around them? Like, they didn't really have much to say, but their presence calmed the room, softened the energy, and made people feel safe. This is what I mean when I talk about being an angel on earth. Now I'm not saying that we are angels in the literal sense. I'm talking about the way we can move through life with love, compassion, grace, protection, and light. I'm talking about the choice to be a vessel of healing in a world that often feels heavy. We are carrying some heavy stories. Heavy stories. But today I want to share seven ways to operate as an angel on earth. And with each one, I'll give you a potential struggle that may make it hard to live that out, but I'll offer a solution to help you move through it. So let's begin. The number one thing is speaking life. One of the first ways to operate as an angel on earth is to speak life. Your words carry weight. They can heal, uplift, encourage, or crush. When you speak life, you become someone who reminds people of who they are, especially when they've forgotten. And a struggle here might be that you're feeling drained, hurt, or unsure of what to say. But the solution is to start small. Speak one honest gentle affirmation, word of encouragement at a time, even if it begins with you. Say things like I am still here. I am growing. I am worthy of peace. Or you can look at yourself in the mirror and you can rephrase it as you statements. You are still here. You are growing and you are worthy of peace. But when you practice speaking life over yourself, it becomes easier to speak life over others. And just to give a story, I've been through the many ebbs and flows of myself as a human being, surviving some really horrific experiences throughout my life. And I've learned that the harsher I am with myself, the harsher I'll be with others. And I've learned that if I'm not showing myself love, if I'm not speaking life over myself, I'm more critical, judgmental, and less empathetic, less compassionate towards other people. So the real practice here in operating as an angel on earth is to be, to be that light to yourself, to be able to reflect that out into the world. Number two, lead with compassion. Another way to operate as an angel on earth is to lead with compassion. Compassion means choosing kindness, patience, no pun intended, and understanding. It means seeing people through a lens of grace even when they are imperfect, messy, or difficult. Our struggle might be that compassion feels hard when people are rude, annoying, or triggering. The solution is to pause before reacting. Remind yourself that compassion does not mean allowing harm, but it does mean allowing grace. And also responding with that grace and boundaries. You can be loving without abandoning yourself. This could show up in so many different ways in our lives, whether we are operating a business, navigating through the corporate world, or serving as a light bearer in the world in multiple capacities, in charities and organizations. Compassion feels hard when people don't make it easy. But for the women who are listening who put the hat on every day and keep their heart open, thank you. Thank you for leading with compassion because we see so many examples of people not doing so. So for all the women out there that are putting on a brave face in the midst of this world of social media and the digital age where people can have opinions about everything in two seconds without ever needing to take accountability for the things they say. It may make it even more difficult in today's age to have compassion, but I see you and I'm so proud of you. And that takes me to number three, which is protect peace. A third way to operate as an angel on earth is to protect peace. Peace is not passive. Peace is intentional. It's something you create. Guard and return to again and again. Peace is internal. And if you're a Christian listening to the show, you know that we have access to a peace that's everlasting. But sometimes being an angel on earth means being the calm in a chaotic storm. And a struggle might be that chaos, stress, or other people's emotions pull you out of your calm. The solution is to build small piece daily practices into your day. Prayer. Prayer, breath work, journaling, silence, stepping outside, or taking a moment before responding can all help you stay grounded, peaceful, and becomes and it becomes easier when you protect your peace and practice it constantly. Okay? Protect your peace. How can you give from a chaotic space? I recently had an interview with uh a local news station here out of West Palm Beach, and I was telling my story of survival, of how I survived the Pulse Night Club shooting and my thoughts on the club being torn down as it happened recently, as they get ready to build the new memorial. Um that was a very chaotic space for my nervous system, and I hadn't told the story in that much depth in a long time, and it really felt like a sacrifice to share my story that deeply. And it's so important when you are a person that is sharing your story, that is operating in a way that you are sharing your light through vulnerability and allowing people to see your scars and allowing people to see your wounds so they can know that you can have wounds, you can have scars, and you can still move forward, you can still soar, you can still dream big dreams. Right? But it's very important to have practices in place like prayer. I ground myself in the day before I start my day with prayer. And honestly, if I don't start my day with prayer, nothing good happens in my day the way that I want it to. Prayer is a grounding ritual for me every day. Breath work is also really important, even throughout the interview, just taking moments before responding to a question, to breathe, to remember, to slow down even in the moment, to allow myself the opportunity to collect my thoughts and really say what I want to say. So if you are a person that is often asked about your story, or you want to be a speaker, or you want to put your light out into the world in a way that allows other people to see themselves in your story, protect your peace because you have to stay settled and grounded in order to last in that work without burning yourself out and without harming yourself. So be kind to yourself and take a break when you need to. But I see you, the woman that is doing that, is sharing her story. I see you, but definitely be intentional about your peace as well, because we need you. And that brings me to number four. Sometimes serving isn't always loud, you don't always have to be the loudest person in the room to serve. And number four, serve quietly. The fourth way to operate as an angel on earth is to serve, but to do so quietly. Not every act of love needs attention, not every good deed needs recognition. Sometimes the most powerful service happens behind the scenes in the places that no one applauds, likes, comments, reposts or shares. A struggle might be wanting recognition, appreciation, or proof that your efforts matter, and that's understandable as a human being. But the solution is to focus on intention over applause. Remind yourself that quiet service still has powerful impact. The love you give still lands even when it's not publicly celebrated. And I say that with a smile, because there is a lot of work that we do, especially as wives, mothers, service workers, visionaries, creatives, champions of our struggles, where we are not publicly celebrated, and perhaps we do not feel appreciated, but that is not the intention. The intention is to increase the input that we do and allow the output to fix themselves, and that is inspired by James Clear. You focus on your input and allow God to handle the output of how it's received, of how you are recognized. But there comes a time when we really have to get intentional and lock in and focus on what we can do, what we can control, and what we can do and what we can control is how we give, how we serve, how we show up, with our heart posture, with our soul posture, and live in that fully and allow everything else to fix themselves. So number five is offer hope. The fifth way to operate as an angel on earth is to offer hope. Hope is powerful. Sometimes we don't need a perfect answer. We just need someone to remind us that better days are possible. Hope could be a lifeline. A struggle might be that you don't feel hopeful yourself. So encouraging others feels heavy, maybe even inauthentic. But the solution is to borrow faith from your past wins, from the times that God showed up for you before, from the moments where you felt like you weren't going to make it and then you did. Borrow faith from your support system, from the people that God placed in your life to remind you of who you are, the people that God placed in your life to remind you that He's still working. Or borrow faith from your spiritual practices until your own hope returns. Listen to positive messages, feed your faith, as Joel Alstein would say. So you don't have to manufacture hope perfectly in every single moment. But sometimes you just have to hold a little bit of it until it grows again. We have to feed our hope. This is a topic that I actually talked about more in a single way. I'm not sure if that's the right way to say that, in prior episodes about how to show up even when you don't want to. But presence matters. Yeah. Being dependable, steady, and grounded can be a form of love that people deeply need. Consistency builds trust, and trust creates safety. Can you be someone that people trust, depends on, counts on? And I think of that song Count on Me with Cece Winans and Whitney Houston. Can you can people count on you? And a struggle might be inconsistency because of exhaustion. Hello, new moms out there, overcommitment. Come on, you warriors, and the women that are always doing everything for everyone else. Or just emotional burnout. To my champions who have survived so much. And maybe you just don't have it right now in this season. Maybe this isn't your season to be consistent. Maybe this is your season to take a break. That's understandable. Take care of your health first. But the solution. The solution is to keep your promises small and realistic. You don't have to do everything. Not saying you have to do everything. But you do have to be steady where you can. Show up where you can. Even if the variation of that looks different, but show up. Sustainable presence is better than performative perfection. Even if it's not perfect, even if you didn't get the lighting the way that you wanted it. Even if you didn't get the chance to film at all, and maybe the only thing you were able to do was offer a message, a word. Do that. Let people know that they can count on you. If this is the kind of work that you want to do in earth, show up. Number seven, love without conditions. The seventh way to operate as an angel on earth is to love without conditions. Unconditional love means offering grace, forgiveness, and acceptance. While still honoring truth, it means loving people as they are, while still allowing growth, healing, and accountability. It doesn't mean neglecting accountability and letting people off the hook. That's not what that means. And a struggle might be that past wounds make it difficult to offer grace freely. There may be things that you need to work through. But the solution is to start by softening toward yourself first. It always starts with yourself first. It always starts with us, right? Self-compassion makes it easier to extend love to others. And that's just the truest statement that I could ever think to say to you because we glamorize authenticity. We glamorize having compassion for others. We glamorize self-love, but sometimes that work is gritty. Sometimes that work is difficult. Sometimes that work takes years to really, to really nail down for ourselves, and that takes time. And that's something that can't be rushed. That inner work that you do on yourself, that's the most authentic you can ever be doing that work on yourself. And when your own heart has room to breathe, it becomes easier to give love without fear. So today, remember this. You don't need wings to be angelic. And you don't need to be perfect, to be an angel on earth. But we need your light. We need your love. We need your compassion for others. We need your empathy. We need your story. And sometimes your story may feel heavy. There's some heavy stories out here, and it sometimes it hurts to share. But we need your perspective in this earth. We need your voice in this world. So take the time that you need, but figure out how you can show up consistently because we need you to be dependable. Right? So you just need a heart that chooses love, a spirit that chooses peace, and hands that are willing to serve and do the work. Being an angel on earth is not about perfection. It's about presence. Safety in your presence. And the presence that flows through you. It's about showing up with light in a world that desperately needs it. And if this episode spoke to you, I want to invite you to download it, share it with a sister who needs encouragement, and subscribe to Healing Her Halo so you can help me heal another woman's Halo. But when you're ready, share this message to reach another woman who may need exactly what this reminder is filled with today. But I thank you for being here with me. I thank you for listening to this episode, and I hope, my hope is that these seven ways that you can show up as an angel on earth actually helps remind you of the angel that you are, and the angel that you've probably been in people's lives, and the light that you've already carried and made an impact in this world with. I hope you take care of yourself. I hope that you are doing what you can to remain this light that you are and to revive that spark in your own halo.

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