Article May 27, 2019 Issue

Entertaining ‘angels unawares’

Charlene Anne Miller

Late one night in a downtown Prague hotel, I returned to my room from the hall bathroom in my bathrobe and nightgown. As I set down my armload of items, an intuition prompted me to lock and bolt the door, right now! Without delay, I quickly did so. No sooner had I latched it than I heard someone jiggling the doorknob, trying unsuccessfully to force the door open. If the thought hadn’t come when it had, or if I had delayed a few seconds, this stranger would have entered my room.

To this day, I am deeply grateful for the spiritual intuition that kept me safe at a time when I was alone and far from my American home, traveling abroad during the Cold War for my Slavic languages master’s degree thesis. I knew that this intuition to act was a message straight from God.

Many people have had intuitions that resulted in protection and guidance, but may not realize that they have “entertained angels unawares” (Hebrews 13:2). My study of Christian Science has shown me that angels are not winged corporeal visitors but God’s divine messages. These angel messages come directly and continuously to each of us as spiritual ideas, intuitions, and inspiration. So they are always as near as our thoughts. Practical and precise, they lovingly and wisely lead us. They guide us into right decisions. Surely, safely, reliably, they shield, guard, and direct us.

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