Do You Believe in Angels?

And if so, what do you believe?

We cannot pass our guardian angel's bounds, resigned or sullen, he will hear our sighs." - St. Augustine

I believe that our ancestors are the angels watching over us. The scriptures promise that we have angels round about us to watch over us, and to me, it makes sense that those angels are our deceased family members.

One morning while running in the canyon, I had that creepy someone is watching feeling that you get when you think you’re alone, but you’re not. I glanced around and saw a lone runner in the distance. A voice in my head that sounded remarkably like my Uncle Henry whispered, there he is. There’s your problem. Run! So, I ran faster. I looked over my shoulder and saw that the runner was coming up behind me fast. Again, the voice urged me to run faster. But the runner caught up to me. 

He was my husband.

 And at that moment, I could almost see my uncle bent over with laughter and joking with his angel-peers.

The scriptures promise us that when we are on the Lord’s errand, his angels will be on our right hand and on our left, his Spirit shall be in our hearts and his angels will be round about us and bear us up. So then, if we want to always have his spirit and his angels around us—shouldn’t we always be doing the Lord’s will? Why would we ever want to do anything else?

Joseph F. Smith said: “When messengers are sent to minister to the inhabitants of this earth, they are not strangers, but from the ranks of our kindred [and] friends . . . . In like manner, our fathers and mothers, brothers, sisters, and friends who have passed away from this earth, having been faithful, and worthy to enjoy these rights and privileges, may have a mission given them to visit their relatives and friends upon the earth again, bringing from the divine Presence messages of love, of warning, of reproof and instruction to those whom they had learned to love in the flesh.”

Angels are not only here to serve and protect us, in Hebrews, Saint Paul commissions us to do the same for them. Be not forgetful to entertain strangers: for thereby some have entertained angels unawares.

And since we can't tell who may or may not be an angel, wouldn't the wisest and kindest thing to do is to treat everyone as if they are an angel unaware?

I don't know about you, but I'm hoping to meet an angel today.