Christ Jesus loved the childlike thought—receptive and yielding so quickly to good. He said, "Take heed that ye despise not one of these little ones; for I say unto you, That in heaven their angels do always behold the face of my Father which is in heaven."Matt. 18:10;
Those who may still think of angels as having physical features, such as wings, would be more consciously receptive to angels if freed from this restricting material picture. Perhaps we have already dismissed this mythical picture and therefore believe we are bereft of angels because for us they do not exist. We need to accept the Christianly scientific sense of angels as "God's thoughts passing to man." In Science and Health Mrs. Eddy gives us the full definition that turns our thought in practical directions: "Angels. God's thoughts passing to man; spiritual intuitions, pure and perfect; the inspiration of goodness, purity, and immortality, counteracting all evil, sensuality, and mortality."Science and Health, p. 581;
Angel thoughts, characterized by hope, are not restricted to or by any human or mortal formations, and they present only goodness. Angels permeate individual and collective thought—healing, adjusting, harmonizing, saving. Angels cannot be weakened, because their source is infinite, Almighty God alone.
