To the readers of this column: a favorite column of the readers is being repeated by request. It seems there is a special interest in angels and this topic has especially interested my grandchildren. My five-year-old granddaughter has a great need to hold her birthday angel like a security blanket as she travels on vacations.

As we were traveling along together I heard her say, "Grandma, do you believe in angels?" Deep in thought, and before I had a chance to give her a long recital about the many times I felt protection in my travels alone by air, sea, and land. And the many dark times, and the storms of life, I could hear her soft voice saying, "Grandma? Are you listening? Grandma? Do angels have wings?" "What do you think?" I asked. "Grandma, that was my question!" she reminded me. For some reason, my thoughts were carried immediately to my childhood and I shared with her that I remembered the picture on the wall at the foot of my bed and that angel in the picture had wings. Even though we could not have the kerosene lamp lit all night long, I always felt a protecting angel throughout the dark night.

We both began to feel very tired, but my thoughts carried me to a church in Cleveland, Ohio. I remembered how my heart was warmed and touched as I listened to the beautiful, soft music that a blind girl named Ruth played and sang. As her fingers touch the strings of her harp, her angelic voice sang, "When at night I go to sleep, fourteen angels watch to keep. Two, my head are guarding. Two, my feet are guiding. Two are on my right. Two are on my left hand. Two who warmly cover. Two who o'er me hover. Two, to whom tis given to guide my steps to heaven."

I was then reminded that NP Willis stated, "If there is anything that keeps the mind open to angel visits and repels the ministry to evil, it is a pure human love." Warmth Thought: It takes a heap of living to make a house a home. Have a great day and the heart of your home.

Warm Thoughts from the Little Home on the Prairie Over a Cup of Tea by Luetta G Werner

Published in the Marion Record, June 20th, 1996.

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