Betty Shine - Shine On - Visions of Life

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Published by HarperCollins Publishers 2003

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Compilation and introductions copyright © Janet Shine 2003

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Source ISBN: 9780007160815

Ebook Edition © MARCH 2016 ISBN: 9780007394180

Version: 2016-01-26

To BETTY SHINE

in memory of a very special soul.

Cover

Title Page

Copyright

Dedication

Introduction

Shine On

1 Book of Life

2 A Pot of Gold

3 Our World

4 Love At First Sight

5 An Extraordinary Man

6 Picking Up the Pieces

7 Eternity

8 Music Is My Life

9 I

10 My Perfect Place

11 Romantic Interludes

12 That’s OK

13 The Shadow and Piano

14 Common Sense

15 My World

16 A Spiritual Bystander

17 I Met a Ghost

18 Time

19 España

20 Unknown Forces

21 Pages in a Travel Book

22 A Shattered Piece of Glass

23 A Bit of Light Relief

24 Changing World

25 Secrets

26 There Are No Words

27 You

28 Cast a Spell

29 Life May Change

30 I Asked God

31 The Man I Never Knew

32 Woman

33 A Waxing Moon

34 Perpetual Light

35 The Mirror in the Hall

36 Two Wrongs Don’t Make a Right

37 Footsteps in the Sand

38 Lighten the Darkness

39 Promises

40 Forever in a Memory

41 Listen to the Wind

42 Fear

43 Miracles

44 The Actor

45 I Am Coming Up Again

46 Joy of Living

47 Dancing Girl

48 Make Peace Happen

49 My Secret

50 Yesterday

51 Familiar Faces

52 A Gift

53 It’s Freedom I Seek

54 Don’t Make Me Cry Again

55 A Shadow of Myself

56 The Same Night Sky

57 Let Me Light Up Your Life

58 Men and Machines

59 It’s Not Over ’til it’s Over

60 Where Is My Life?

61 We Are Together

62 Heartbreak

63 Shadows

64 Midnight

65 We Can Never Give Up

66 When You See

67 Hard Luck

68 I’m On the Outside Looking In

69 Thoughts

70 Another Time, Another Place

71 Possessions

72 Understanding

73 Alone in the Dark

74 Shades of Life

75 Pain

76 Nature

77 Inhibitions

78 Even for Love

79 The Willow

80 Stay With Me

81 Tranquillity

82 In Search of You

83 Life

84 Memories

85 My Wish

Lyrics

86 Music Set in Stone

87 The World Keeps Turning

88 One By One

89 Take It Easy

90 Attitude

91 Hold Back the Night

92 Take Your Time

93 Lady of the Night

94 My Life’s a Travesty

95 Ghosts of the Past

96 Ambition

97 Visions

Final Thoughts

98 It’s a Mystery

99 Without You

100 A Web of Dreams

101 The Brightest Star

Keep Reading

Index

About the Author

Also by the Author

About the Publisher

Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feeling.It takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquillity.

WILLIAM WORDSWORTH

1770–1850

This evening I have been compelled to sit at the computer and relay the story behind the poems and lyrics that you will read and absorb into your hearts.

In the last 18 months of her life, Betty spent night and day writing about situations that had touched her heart and soul. She was so moved by all that she heard, saw and read that she was able to put all these emotions down on scraps of paper, backs of envelopes, notepads – the ideas came thick and fast, sometimes so fast that she could hardly get pen to paper in time. She would often relay messages from the spirit world in her writings, understanding all that they had to say and putting it down as it was spoken to her. Automatic writing often occurred at any time of day or night – when messages are passed through from spirit you have to act upon them, even if you are in the bath! This she did, never denying a channel of thought from spirit to herself.

She always wrote from her heart. The most overwhelming time was during the September 11th tragedy. Without Betty realising it, she foresaw this tragedy happening. She had channelled automatic writings, even drawings of planes colliding in mid-air, smoke, bodies, in fact all the images that you would have seen on the television screen. Betty would say, ‘These images I am getting are unbelievable.’ Though none of us knew what it meant, she actually saw it all before it happened! That is how utterly amazing she was as a clairvoyant.

I would arrive at Betty’s house in Sussex where she lived and worked, ready for my day’s work ahead. Even before I could get in the front door she would say, ‘Janet come into the living room – I’ve got another masterpiece to read to you. I wrote it last night.’ I would stand with bated breath as I knew how her heart and soul had gone into these poems. As she read each piece of work to me, the tears would often well up in my eyes as they were so beautiful, funny, sad or true to everyday life that we all experience. ‘What do you think?’ she would ask. ‘Fantastic,’ was always my reply, because they truly were. Her eyes would light up and we would then put all these writings into a special folder knowing that one day someone somewhere would read them. It was always her dream to have them published or the lyrics recorded, as she truly believed that, like all her books, these special writings would move the hearts and souls of her public. I believe they will too, and that is why I was determined to have them shown to the world as a very last tribute to Betty’s tremendous courage through a very difficult 18 months. These writings kept her determination and pure mental and physical strength going when all was against her, and without the hope of the afterlife Betty would have never coped with her physical ailments on earth. She fought to the bitter end and made me so proud of her.

I will never forget her grabbing my hand every day when I arrived for work, that warm, chunky, healing hand, so full of love and energy. She would not let go until she had told me all her news! Even now when I sit quietly I can feel that hand in mine. Betty was passionate about life on earth and life beyond, and I hope that by reading this book you will be able to share in the same passion that she had.