I remember when I was a young lad and I’d just learnt how to ride a bike. I loved to ride it on the flats. It wasn’t a flash bike with gears, so no riding uphill. Oh and I loved going downhill. Super fast. There was a really steep hill outside where I lived. A long steep, sweeping slope that I could ride down, swing round a corner and coast up to my house.
One day, I decided to do it without brakes, as you do. I came round, super fast of course, flew round the corner, hit a curb, flew off my bike and landed on some nice rocky stairs. Without a helmet too. Amazingly, I didn’t hit my head or break any bones. Just a couple of scratches and cuts. Good luck?
Then there’s the time I decided to pull a u-turn without first checking if the coast was clear and narrowly missed a guy on a scooter. Good fortune?
Luck? Coincidence? Good fortune? I don’t know if I believe in those. Close shaves, narrow misses, about to take a long drive but stop and find out your front tire wasn’t screwed on properly?
It’s someone looking out for you. I like to think I have my very own guardian angel, sent by God to watch out for me, especially when I decide to do something stupid. Someone who’s always watching you, keeping you safe, prodding you in directions God wants you to go. What a fantastic gift to have!
So today, take some time out and thank God for your guardian angel!
Great post beardy!
Guardian angels are super aren’t they?
I remember one new years, I was in my friends car and we were driving up to a cliff at raglan. We were coming up to a corner (blind, right next to the cliff), and I got this premonition something was going to happen. He was going quite fast, so I yelled out “Brake, brake!” to him. Unfortunately he took this as meaning “pull a hand-brakie”.
Little did we know, there was a large 4WD coming the other way around the corner. So my friend pulled a handbrakie, we slid round the corner, saw the 4WD, panicked, tried to stop…
We came to a stop a couple of centermeters from the cliff and maybe 10cm from the 4WD. I don’t know how we managed to miss both, or how the 4WD managed to stop. But I think that our Guardian Angels had a lot to do with it.
One day I’d like to know how they did it, I mean, did they guide my friend’s wheel, did they talk to the guardian angel of the driver of the other car.
Lately I have been trying to get to know my Guardian angel. I wanted to try and find out it’s name, so I prayed, and sure enough a name popped into my head. It was Demios. Which was weird, because that didn’t sound like an angel’s name at all.
It wasn’t an angel’s name, I looked it up and it meant terror. That got me a bit concerned that I had a demon following me around, but that’s another story for another day. I tried it again and came up with Andrew – meaning ‘man’. I’m not sure if I was naming him or if I actually had some communication going on there – but neither were the sort of names I would have thought of readily.
Guardian angels always do everything they can to get you to Jesus. Thats why mine is currently in charge of waking me up to go to morning mass (I’m really not a morning person). A few weeks ago my friend and I were trying to get into the little chapel at our church to pray in front of Jesus. Theres a combination lock on the door, but it wasn’t working. Eventually a guy came out and let us in. We told him about the lock, and he said he had problems with it too – but he’d just ask his guardian angel to get him to Jesus and it’d work straight away.
We haven’t had any problems with it since.
One other cool little thing I’ve heard lately, before this comment gets really, ridiculously long-
When you’re in mass you can release your guardian angel to go and be with Jesus. After all, you’re in heaven in mass and are completely safe, being surrounded by all the angels and saints.
God Bless
And pray for all the overworked Guardian Angels!
Nice to be reminded about our guardian angels. Thanks. Dangermouse, I don’t think we need to release our guardian angels at mass to be with Jesus. They are always with Jesus. They are continually in His full presence, contemplating his face – which is one of the most wonderful things about them. I heard a priest say once that we can ask our guardian angels to speak to other people’s guardian angels – its a way of transmitting positive thoughts I guess. Because our guardian angels can inspire us with good aspirations – so they have a certain access to our interior in the form of suggestions. This isn’t mind control of course but we can help others be more well disposed toward the truth by getting their angels onto the job! It works wonderfully before difficult meetings or even with hitchhiking!
That’s an interesting question actually, could a guardian angel focus more on Jesus if it didn’t have to look after us? Angels are spirit, but are not God – does that make them limited in the amount of attention they can give?
I’d say that an angel is not torn between two focal points. Being in the full vision of God is totally blissful for the angel and totally captivating as well. Yet, it is in God that the angel sees us. That is precisely why the angels gaze is so true on us. This is a limited sharing in the gaze of God on us, because God also sees all things in Himself – through his Word, as participations in the Word.