Article December 18, 1971 Issue

CATCHING ANGELS

JUNE E. BECKWITH

The Christmas store windows were full of beautiful decorations—red and green and gold and blue, all glittering and sparkling. In the middle of one window Tanya saw the most beautiful thing she had ever seen. It was like a big paper doll, all white and gold, and it had feathered wings and was flying like a bird. It was beautiful, but Tanya couldn't understand why her friends called it an angel. She'd run home and ask her mother!

"Mom! Mom! Are there two kinds of angels?" called Tanya as she raced to the kitchen. Between gulps of milk and mouthfuls of cookies, Tanya told what she had seen in the store window.

"We learned in Christian Science Sunday School that angels are God's thoughts. But if what I saw was an angel, doesn't that make two kinds of angels?"

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