The Warmth of Angel Wings

I'm sure you've felt it too. On those days, or in those moments when your very soul seems crushed within you... When your brain is firing off questions that have no possible answers... I know I have felt it.

I like to think of them as angel hugs. Do you know that feeling when you don't feel like you can even pray because it just hurts too much? There aren't words that come to you, so the hot tears just streak down your cheeks in their place... and then you feel it. The warmth of angel wings wraps you up. You feel the prayers of others lifting you. They carry you through the hard days, the hard weeks, the hard moments...

Often, when I know someone who is hurting, and I just wish that could take their pain away, I pray that they can feel just feel whatever I have felt in those moments. My prayer often wouldn't make much sense on paper. "Please God, just give them whatever that was.." But he knows what I mean.

So friend, today, if you are looking out the window, wondering how the sun can shine so cheerily, how the world can just keep on spinning... I pray that you can feel the warmth of angel wings holding you- lifting you- and carrying you- through this valley. Someday you will smile again. You will laugh without feeling guilty. You will be able to pray in real words again. Until then, rest in the safety of those angel wings; rest in this touch from God.

Today, the Iowa sky is blue, the birds are chirping, the sun is shining, and there is a song on my lips. I'm not sure why God laid this thought on my heart. Maybe it was for you. Maybe it was for me. Maybe I needed to revisit my lowest days so that I can be properly thankful for where I am today. Maybe I needed to remember how just how wonderful angel hugs feel, to help me remember how important it is to live for Jesus. If those moments when He is so near feel so wonderful, can you imagine what heaven will feel like?