On the subject of angels

Christa Förster

I remember playing with a childhood friend in the attic of her home many years ago and finding a picture of two children walking along a precipice. The picture showed a guardian angel watching over them.

At the time, I was much impressed by the drawing, but I also wondered why I never saw such angels. Later I wondered whether angels were just an imaginary concept or there was something more to this subject of angels.

Far more real today than the presence of angels seem to be the world's looming dangers. The threat of war has a long history in my part of the world. And while was and cold war hostilities in Europe are undergoing promising changes in the 1980s, great concern still remains over such things as the unpredictable threat of terrorism or nuclear accident. There systems may not fail or be bypassed.

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