Imagine you had a bodyguard who was always with you.
He did all the usual bodyguard things like protecting you from danger, warding off assailants,
and generally keeping you safe in all situations.
But he also did more than this: he offered you moral guidance, helped you become a stronger
person, and led you to your ultimate calling in life.
We already have such a bodyguard.
The Christian tradition calls them guardian angels.
A guardian angel is an angel (a created, non-human, non-corporeal being) that has been assigned
to guard a particular person, especially with respect to helping that person avoid spiritual
dangers and grow spiritually.
Here are some interesting imortant facts about the Guardian Angels.
They are non denominational.
Guardian angels are not only for Christians.
They work with individuals of all the other faiths, such as Muslim, Jewish, Hindu, Pagan,
and Buddhist.
They work with individuals that are spiritual, although they don’t identify with a particular
religion.
This really makes sense, because we were all assigned a guardian angel before our birth.
Guardian angels don’t have a favorite spiritual tradition.
Atheists also have their guardian angels.
Guardian angels respect people’s beliefs, urging them also to respect them, unless the
beliefs of a person are not hurting him or her.
Guardian Angels communicate to us through thoughts, images and feelings.
Angels are spiritual beings and do not have bodies.
They can sometimes take the appearance of a body and can even influence the material
world, but by their nature are pure spirits.
It then makes sense that the primary way they communicate to us is by offering to our intellect
thoughts, images or feelings that we can either accept or reject.
It may not be clearly evident that it is our Guardian Angel communicating to us, but we
may realize that the idea or thought did not come from our own minds.
On rare occasions, angels can take physical appearance and speak with words.
They are with us through everything, good or bad.
Our guardian angels are never going to abandon us, and they particularly stick really close
by our side.
When we have some problems, such as when we are in court, in hospital, in jail or in despair,
our guardian will faithfully support and love us.
In such situations, they are close to us than we can imagine.
They never judge us.
They see every mistake we make for what it is – just a mistake.
They know that human beings are fallible, often doing the best they can.
When we do terrible things, or we are not at our best, their forgiveness is unconditional.
Guardian Angels can move faster than Flash.
Angels are not bound by a material body like we are and so they can move super fast, the
speed of “thought”…much faster than Flash.
So if you ask your Guardian Angel to help someone else out, they will be back at your
side before you realize.
When we ask them to help us, they feel free to help us more.
The angels, particularly the guardian ones, always buzz around and look for some ways
of making our earthly journey interesting, satisfying and dynamic.
This means that even people that never pray, and never ask for help, continually benefit
from the angelic intervention.
When we ask our guardian angels for help about something particular, it will give them the
freedom to assist us more.
The reason for this is as they are almost always going to honor our freewill choices
unless those choices are going to be detrimental for us or for others.
It is wonderful to know that we are not alone in this human experience.
We should spend some time acknowledging our guardian angels, so we are going to become
really good friends.
In that way, the angelic communication is going to occur naturally.