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Friday, December 12, 2014

What Kids Say About Angels

Angel Names

"I only know the names of two angels, Hark and Harold." 
-Olive,  Age 5

 

Angel Halos

"Everybody's got it all wrong. Angels don't wear halos anymore. I forget why, but scientists are working on it." 
-Gregory, Age 9

Angel Training

"It's not easy to become an angel! First, you die. Then you go to Heaven, and then there's still the flight training to go through.  And then you got to agree to wear those angel  clothes." 
-Matthew, age  9

Angel Work

"Angels work for God and watch over kids when God has to go do something else." And... "All angels are girls because they gotta wear dresses and boys didn't go for  it." 
-Antonia, age 5
-Mitchelle, age  5


Angel Healers

"Some of the angels are in charge of helping heal sick animals and pets. And if they don't make the animals get better, they help the child get over it."  

-Vicki, age 8


Angel Help


"My guardian angel helps me with math, but he's not much good for science." And... "Angels don't eat, but they drink milk from Holy Cows!!!"  
-Mahalia, age  8
-Toya, age 6

Angel Talk

"Angels talk all the way while they're flying you up to heaven. The main subject is where you went wrong before you got dead." 

-Daniel, age  6

Angel Anger


"When an angel gets mad, he takes a deep breath and counts to ten. And when he lets out his breath again, somewhere there's a tornado." 
-Reagan, age  10

Angel Chores

"Angels have a lot to do and they keep very busy. If you lose a tooth, an angel comes in through your window and leaves money under your pillow. Then when it gets cold, angels go south for the winter." 
-Jack,  age 8

An Angel Called Grandma

"My angel is my grandma who died last year. She got a big head start on helping me and my brother while she was still down here on earth." 
-Ashley, age 7

Where Angels Live

"Angels live in cloud houses made by God and his son, who's a very good carpenter." And... "What I don't get about angels is why, when someone is in love, they shoot arrows at them."  
-Janelle, age  8
-Sarah, age  8

 
 When I was a kid my mother told me that every time you heard thunder it was the angels bowling in heaven.  Also, when it rained it was  an angel crying.  When a bell rings it is an angel getting their wings.  If you find a penny lying on the ground it is because an angel tossed it your way to say hello.

What did you think about angels when you were a kid?  What do you children think?  Ever ask them?

Tuesday, November 11, 2014

Notable Angel Sayings

 






An angel can illuminate the thought and mind of man by strengthening the power of vision. ~St Thomas Aquinas

When babies look beyond you and giggle, maybe they're seeing angels. ~Quoted in The Angels' Little Instruction Book by Eileen Elias Freeman, 1994

 

If trouble hearing angels' song with thine ears, try listening with thy heart. ~Terri Guillemets

Angels shine from without because their spirits are lit from within by the light of God. ~Quoted in The Angels' Little Instruction Book by Eileen Elias Freeman, 1994

Silently, one by one, in the infinite meadows of heaven,
Blossomed the lovely stars, the forget-me-nots of the angels.
~Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, "Evangeline"



Music is well said to be the speech of angels. ~Thomas Carlyle
 

Make yourself familiar with the angels, and behold them frequently in spirit; for, without being seen, they are present with you. ~St Francis of Sales



I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free. ~Michelangelo

Whether we are filled with joy or grief, our angels are close to us, speaking to our hearts of God's love. ~Quoted in The Angels' Little Instruction Book by Eileen Elias Freeman, 1994

Angels can fly directly into the heart of the matter. ~Author Unknown

Angels are never too distant to hear you. ~Author Unknown
I believe we are free, within limits, and yet there is an unseen hand, a guiding angel, that somehow, like a submerged propeller, drives us on. ~Rabindranath Tagore
Let us not be justices of the peace, but angels of peace. ~Thérèse de Lisieux

 

The magnitude of life is overwhelming. Angels are here to help us take it peace by peace. ~Levende Waters

Angels are spiritual energy. ~Alexis Flora Hope, 2007

If you can't hear the angels, try quieting the static of worry. ~Terri Guillemets

While we are sleeping, angels have conversations with our souls. ~Author Unknown



Friends are kisses blown to us by angels. ~Author Unknown
Raindrops resplendent with angels patter my head and drizzle God's love over me. Wet rejoicing abounds! ~Terri Guillemets

When we worship God, our angels add their prayers and turn our single voices into hundred-part harmony. ~Quoted in The Angels' Little Instruction Book by Eileen Elias Freeman, 1994


Angels will not disintegrate with logic, but they are more likely to fly for those who believe. ~Terri Guillemets
The angels are always near to those who are grieving, to whisper to them that their loved ones are safe in the hand of God. ~Quoted in The Angels' Little Instruction Book by Eileen Elias Freeman, 1994

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Angels are like diamonds. They can't be made, you have to find them. Each one is unique. Jaclyn Smith



Believers, look up - take courage. The angels are nearer than you think.  Billy Graham


Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.   Alexander Pope


Yes, love indeed is light from heaven; A spark of that immortal fire with angels shared, by Allah given to lift from earth our low desire. Lord Byron



Make friends with the angels, who though invisible are always with you. Often invoke them, constantly praise them, and make good use of their help and assistance in all your temporal and spiritual affairs.   Saint Francis de Sales


The golden moments in the stream of life rush past us, and we see nothing but sand; the angels come to visit us, and we only know them when they are gone.   George Eliot


In this theater of man's life, it is reserved only for God and angels to be lookers-on.   Pythagoras

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