Angels in Our Lives 

I have often considered, even back my more agnostic days that we are surrounded by angels in our lives. I know many of you my loyal readers have at one time, or another been touched by someone who somehow changed your life for the better. 

I have at least had one experience and yet, there are probably too many to count, times when someone or something interrupted the path I was headed and took a turn away from what most likely would have been my demise. 

I know these people were angels because I never saw them again. They appeared and just as quickly disappeared from my life forever. I even sometimes suspect that God might have even appeared in the form of a human to guide me away from that which would have surely ruined me. 

Then, let us not forget those memorable angels from their roles in movies: Clarence in It’s a Wonderful Life, Cassiel and Damiel of Wings of Desire, Dudley in the Bishop’s Wife, Pete Sandich of Always, Gabriel in Prophesy, Joe Pendleton in Heaven Can Wait, Al the Boss in Angels in the Outfield, Azazel in Fallen, and Loki and Bartleby of Dogma. These angels for better or worst shaped the mortals who made them either understand something clearly at last or create chaos. 

I believe in the angels more now than ever because how my own path has taken me. At first, I didn’t listen to those angels who came to me in their human disguises. I denied they knew what they were saying. I now realized they were right, and I was the fool. After my stroke I became a different person not just because I realized my limited human life had changed but because those better angels had indeed rescued me from ruin.