I want to tell you a Christmas story about how an angel saved my life. 

In my family, we talked about angels a lot. Not the people with wings you see on Christmas cards or in windows when you’re shopping for gifts. Mary Baker Eddy, who discovered Christian Science, says that angels are “God’s thoughts passing to man” (Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, p. 581). I can tell you that angels are real, because one year at Christmas, one talked to me, and that’s how it saved my life.

Every year at Christmastime, my family and our friends would drive twenty hours for a ski trip. Since it took a long time to get there, we would talk about lots of things, like the Christmas story, and angels, and what Christmas is all about: how Jesus came to show us that God is always-present, all-powerful Love.