Today is April 27th, 2011 and I am adding "Some Have Entertained Angels' to my music page.  This was the second piece I composed while hosting the angels for a week in my studio.  (See "The Three Angels Project" on The Listening Room page.)

A friend (one to whom I had sent the angels after I had them) said to me, "I wonder why I had to have someone else tell me that I had angels with me, when I know that really, they must be with me all the time."

 

I felt the same way.  Why did I forget for so many years, that I am surrounded by loving spirits and guardian angels?  Why did I forget the love and goodwill that enfolds me every moment of the day and night?

 

When I was a little girl, I had an old prayer book that had been my father's when he was a boy.  My father was raised as a Catholic.  My mother was a Cumberland Presbyterian.  My mother took me to church with her when I was a little girl and I still have so many wonderful memories of the kind souls who cared for me in that little church.  But when I was an older girl, I was baptized at St. Mary's Catholic Church and actually, became the church organist there.  That was back when the Mass was still in Latin.  I loved the mysteries and rituals of the Catholic church.  I especially loved the old Gregorian chants.  

Anyway, I remember every night I used to say the prayer that was in my father's old Catholic prayer book.  It was not a prayer to Mary, to Jesus, to the Holy Spirit or God the Father.  It was a prayer to my Guardian Angel.  

I had been wondering what had become of that old prayer book.  Then, a couple of months ago, I was at my sister's house and spotted it on top of a pile of old books stacked in her living room.  She let me take it home.  

Here is the prayer entitled "To Our Guardian Angel" from that old book.

 

Angel of God, my guardian dear,

To whom His love commits me here,

Ever this day be at my side,

To light and guard, to rule and guide.  Amen.