Angels are cosmic beings and are more famously known as messengers from God. According to the Bible, Angels have been fighting a battle of good and evil, headed by the well known Michael Archangel, against the forces of evil led by the fallen Angel who used to be known as Lucifer.
Since the beginning of time, Angels have been the medium of the Lord’s messages for His faithful followers and prophets of the three most prolific religions of the world which have set the cornerstone of events and history of the world for more than 2000 years. Famous historical and religious personalities and prophets such as Abraham, Elijah, Mohammad, John the Baptist, Mary mother of Jesus, are a few of many who were visited and given messages from the Lord by Angels, the most famous of these messenger Angels is the Angel Gabriel.
Given this role by God, Angels are known to have given hope and inspiration to people to withstand the challenges of life, and to be strong-willed and stay true to their faith.
Willow Tree specializes on figurine sculptures that represent qualities and sentiments of ones emotions. Expressions of Love, Friendship, Spirituality, Hope, are just some of the themes available. Looking at these figurines allows someone to remember and reminisce their treasured moments and be inspired.
Hand-crafted by the artist Susan Lordi, each figurine expresses the art of love, healing, courage and hope. Her figurines continue to evolve by her motivation to provide inspiration and healing, and remembrance of emotions of life well-lived.
Introduced in January of 2000, Susan Lordi started with only 15 angels and the scene of the Nativity. Since then, the Willow Tree line-up has grown to thousands of Angel figurines to express human sentiments to our loved ones.
Susan Lordi also keeps each Willow Tree Figurine “open” to anyone’s interpretation on how they see each piece. She created Willow Tree Angels so that anyone can relate to what the figurines express depending on what their feelings tell them and eventually process that interpretation into something positive.
Why is it called Willow Tree? Willow Tree because the columnar design of each Angel figurine symbolizes the firm stance of a willow tree and metaphorically holds objects of nature such as flora and animals to symbolize healing, remembrance and beauty.
These little statues of Angels were created by human hands to provide strength, courage, faith and love. And unlike the Angels that serve as our guardians, Willow Tree Angels are visible to our naked eyes.
It would be wonderful to think that a good entity will appear and comfort us whenever we are feeling down and ready to give up. Giving us comfort, hope and relief by a supernatural being sent by God is such a comforting thought to everyone who believes. I’m sure that most, if not all, persons in different parts of the world have their own story of miracles. There are people who claim that they found courage, hope, and recovery during their time of crisis. Where are they gonna get money to pay for their children’s education, or pay their electric and utilities bill? Some even have more serious financial problem such as losing their job, their home. And a lot of people have the most extreme problem of losing their own lives or the life of their loved ones due to serious illnesses or unfortunate incidents.
Willow Tree Angels may not be invisible, supernatural beings that watch over us wherever we go, but they are symbols of our emotions that we can strongly relate to and help us enhance each of our emotion and share it to the people we know or do not know, and give them the care, strength and love they deserve.
Each sculpture is crafted carefully defining elegance, finesse, and craftsmanship. Materials used to make these products are 100% safe especially the paints which are lead-free and adhere to the requirements of the US FDA regulations.
All of these products I found on the Internet but the largest selection by far was at Cherry Lane Collection.com.
Other great lines to Willow Tree Angels are Precious Moments and Jim Shore Heartwood Creek