Guardian Angels

I can't agree. If this were true then it would be so terribly sad that some people have Guardian angels when some clearly don't.

I agree with christinefrance.

Wow, saoirse, you definitely needed one, if there is such a thing. Well done, the NHS.

I know I definitely have but don't know who! I was told I needed a heart transplant October 2015 but was facing a long wait because of my blood type. I got the call June 2015 and was extremely ill after. I had to go back in the day after the op because there was internal bleeding and was unconscious for a week. I wasn't expected to make it but after many rejections and infections I'm still here!! Recovery has been slow and there have been setbacks but I'm sure someone's looking after me.

I think mine has been going in and out of re-hab for the past ten years. Some good, some b****y awful.
Wish it would get her/his act together.

uBlock adblocker needed, Auntieflo.

I have now got an ad flashing up for " I request my reading of the angels" by Angela.

Mine does not exist

Thanks, Elegran.

or mine's even.

I think min'e gone on strike.

Durhamjen The quotes are from Joseph Addison and George Herbert.

I wish I could believe in guardian angels but feel that what happens to us (or not) is a question of chance( or luck) and the lack of it, often together with choices consciously, unconsciously made.
Guardian angels or white feathers make a comforting and hopeful story and create a lovely, ethereal image.

NO I'm sorry I don't believe in guardian angels but I do believe in trusting your instincts and taking time to make good decisions. I haven't always done this but when I have 'slept on it' as it where there has been a better outcome.

I can't believe in guardian angels while such wicked things are done in the world, and while people are dying for want of clean water.

The archangels are all male. Not sure about the ordinary ones?

Paddyann, at one time my guardian angel was my dad.
We had been going to buy a guest house on the River Ouse in York. When we told my dad, he said that the car park at the back of the guest house regularly flooded, so we bought one well away from the rivers. The next year we had really bad floods in York, and the guest house we had been going to buy was out of action for at least six months.

Elegran, that sounds like Pilgrim's Progress.

Mine has definitely been slacking over the last 14 months! Hopefully he/she (do angels have gender?) is now going to start doing his/her job!

It's a lovely thought but I don't believe it. If everybody had one, some of them should be sacked for not doing their job properly !

Isn't a lone white feather supposed to be a sign that an angel has passed by? Sure I read that somewhere but I find it hard to believe.

One of the most difficult things for me was when people came up with "wise sayings" that were meant to comfort like "God only gives these burdens to those strong enough to bear them" in which case I wished I had spent my life being weak. But that's another discussion entirely I think. Even though I don't really believe in angels I do find myself hoping for a sign sometimes!

Smothed? Smoothed!

Inknown? Unknown! 9n? In!

Wouldn't it be nice to have our path smothed by an inknown hand? Unless we are one of the majority without that protection, whose path is rough and stony, with precipices to stumble into and storms to fight against.

There are a couple of pious quotes 9n the same vein, - "To a close shorn sheep, God gives wind by measure." and ^"God tempers the wind to the shorn lamb.^" but the icy wind of hardship and tragedy strikes just as hard at those least equipped to cope with it as to the strong and well-prepared.

(And, incidentally, cute little lambs are not shorn until they are as large and hardy as their parents - they don't have enough fleece to make it worth the effort. What is sold as lambswool is the soft first shearing of a hulking great "lamb" eighteen months old or so)