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About Us
Angela and Leslie Kay
Leslie and Angela are mother and
daughter and their journey began with the tragic loss of
Leslie’s only son, Billy, and Angela’s brother.
After years of just going through the motions they were
both faced once again with tragic losses in 2004 and
2005. Leslie’s father had been hospitalized for
nine months with no hope of recovery, when Angela’s
mother-in-law suddenly became ill. The doctors
gave her 3 months to a year to live. When Angela was on
the way to the hospital to see her grandpa and her
mother-in-law, who were just a few rooms away from each
other, she knew something had to be done to honor and
remember our loved ones. Angela thought of doing
an angel magnet that said In Loving Memory. She
called her mother right away and told her about the
idea. Leslie said she would pray about it and draw
just the right angel. A week later Angela was told
her mother-in-law had only 3-5 days to live. Three
days later Angela and her husband were there when she
took her last breath. Angela felt helpless; there
was nothing she could do to ease his pain. Three
months later Leslie’s father passed away. It is
difficult to put into words the heartache you feel when
you lose a loved one. It is a loss you carry with
you always, it’s timeless.
Angela and Leslie created Inspired To Be
to honor, to cherish, and to remember our loved ones.
Our loved ones deserve to be honored for how they
touched our lives in so many precious ways. We
need to cherish them because of the love that we shared
and for the love they are still sending us. It
heals our hearts to remember them and the memories that
we made together. People need to know that it is
okay to think of them, to still love them, and to
remember them.
Angela and Leslie are also doing a
Bereavement Gathering called “Guidance In Grieving”.
They thought of doing this because they know how hard it
is to lose a loved one and they wanted to try and help
those who are grieving. Angela and Leslie have
found that by helping someone else through their pain it
eases their own.
About Angela
At the age of 19, Angela’s life as she knew it
changed in a single moment. Her fiancé passed away
in a tragic car accident in 1994. She began
searching for answers to make sense out of what had
happened and found none. She began writing to
express her feelings and to heal her own pain.
After years of just going through the motions, she was
hit with another tragedy, the loss of her only brother,
Billy, who passed away on New Years Eve in 1998.
Two days after his death she was awakened by something
telling her she needed to write a poem. Angela
tried ignoring it because she had not gotten any sleep
and was extremely tired. The feeling persisted, so
she grabbed her pen and paper and began writing.
In about 10 minutes she wrote a poem titled “Never Say
Goodbye”. She believes it was Billy’s message to
his family and friends, letting everyone know that he
was alright and that he would never say goodbye.
The response Angela received from the poem was
overwhelming and that is when she began writing for
others to help ease their pain.
She is a divinely guided poet and her personalized
poetry is gifted and sent from the Heavens above.
She can connect on a soulful level with your loved one
who has passed away. She can feel the messages
your loved one wants to send you and then she writes the
message into a beautiful and inspirational poem.
People have told her how their own personal message from
their loved one gave them hope during a time of sorrow
and gave them the courage to begin to heal.
About Leslie Kay
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Leslie's gallery
Leslie Kay is a divinely gifted artist. Her art is
guided and touched by angels. She has been blessed
with 5 daughters and 1 son. Her work has always
been commissioned pieces, because of this she enjoyed
painting everything not just one subject. Then in
the blink of an eye her life changed. Her precious
and loving son, Billy, passed away on New Years Eve in
1998. For Leslie everything stopped, it was no longer
automatic to breathe, to walk, or to live. Every
ounce of her energy was spent on survival, and her
painting ceased. After 6 months, Leslie picked up
a brush and painted a portrait of her son. When
she looks at his painting she knows the healing begins
there, as it brings her a sense of peace and comfort.
Leslie prays for all of you who are walking this same
path.
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