Jan/Feb 2025

Angels on Earth magazine

Angels still visit us today to guide us, and give us reassuring evidence of God’s eternal love. Discover the angels in your own life with Angels on Earth!

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Down To Earth
Happy anniversary to Angels on Earth, celebrating 30 years! The milestone got me thinking about the early days of my career, working as a copy editor at Angels on Earth’s parent magazine, Guideposts. Fact-checking was a big part of my job, which was
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Angels On Earth Magazine
President & CEO John Temple Senior Lead Editor Colleen Hughes Creative Director Kayo Der Sarkissian Editorial Team Morgan Beard, Meg Belviso, Sabra Ciancanelli, Sabrina Diaz, Kimberly Elkins, Amanda Ericson, Celia M. Gibbons, Lisa Guernsey, Jane Haer
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OUR Long & Joyful RIDE
After flying all night from Detroit, I could barely keep my eyes open while we rode the bus from the Amsterdam airport to the passenger terminal, where my friends and I would board the ship for a river cruise adventure. What day was it even? With the
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Lost & Found
I pulled into the parking lot of the Bouncing Barn, an indoor play area with bounce houses. My five-year-old son, Nathan, jumped out of the car and right into a snow drift. He certainly put his favorite Spider-Man snow boots to good use. Inside, Nath
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A Forest of My Own
Santa wouldn’t be delivering his Christmas magic to our house the year I was 10. Life as we knew it had come to a halt when my father died unexpectedly a month before the holidays. My oldest brother, Wayne, was sending home his paycheck from the Navy
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No Complaints
Complaining wasn’t in my husband Aaron’s nature, so sometimes it took a while for him to speak up and ask for the help he needed. For the past few days, I’d had a hunch that he was in pain but didn’t want to say so. “Your ear’s still hurting, isn’t i
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Heavenly Best Friends
I am now at the age when I think a lot about how God will welcome me into heaven. What must it feel like to arrive at those pearly gates? What will I see when I step inside? I imagine that the heavenly homecoming might be tailored for each newcomer.
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Earning Their Wings
Driving conditions weren’t the best that evening, and I drove slowly on the snowy road. When I reached my cul-de-sac, I breathed a sigh of relief. Almost home. Then my house came into view. I was home but not home free. Not with the slushy mound the
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EYEWITNESS TO AN Angel
Who receives the first angelic visit in the Bible? It’s not at all whom I expected. Not a prophet, not a patriarch, but a young woman in a distinctly subservient role. The first angel recorded in the Bible appeared to Hagar, an Egyptian slave girl, s
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Sisterhood Of The Traveling Christmas Card
My sister, Lucinda, and I have always been very different people. Lucinda remained in the rural community where we grew up. I moved away. She liked working with children and retired after 44 years of teaching. I liked working with numbers and spent m
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On A Wing And A Prayer
Driving my sister Joyce’s “big boat” of a car—a Ford Crown Victoria with a sticky gas pedal—wasn’t easy. Joyce didn’t feel comfortable driving it all the way from New Jersey to visit my sister Barbara in Pennsylvania. I took the wheel, but a wintry m
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When the Eagles Came for Bobby Owen
It drifted overhead like a winged shadow against the grimy winter sky, circling lazily above St. Peter Hospital in Olympia, Washington, on a warm December day in 1992. Robert Sison, 57, studied the sky from a window on the hospital’s third floor canc
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Valentine Angels
Valentine’s Day was only a month away when my husband, Brian, went to heaven. Even in our seventies, we celebrated our love every day, not just on February 14. I couldn’t imagine a Valentine’s Day without him. On the night of Brian’s passing, I lay i
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Warm Memories
In my kitchen at Christmastime, a dish towel hangs from my oven door with a coffee cake recipe printed on it. But it’s not just any coffee cake; it’s the recipe my mother-in-law, Shay, used for our Christmas morning breakfasts. I knew it would be bit
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Rocking Chair Angel
Even at 12 years old, I was afraid of the dark. I always slept with my bedroom door open so I could see the faint hallway light all night long. But there was no familiar comfort like that where I lay now. I was in a hospital bed, tethered by tubes an
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OPERATION Golf Cart
Life in our quiet retirement village had its advantages. Friendly neighbors, a peaceful setting, the relaxed pace, and it was easy to maneuver. The house my husband, Ralph, and I lived in came with a golf cart for the nearby course—or just for gettin
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He Makes Winds His Messengers
That Saturday morning, I folded three $20 bills together for the farrier and slid them into my back jeans pocket with my phone. I headed out to the barn, where my horse Whiskey would get her hooves cared for later in the day. First I saddled her up f
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When the Time Comes
"You’ll just know.” That was the advice I was given about when to release my husband, Phil, to hospice care. Laying out his daily medications for the next morning, I couldn’t imagine ever making that call. Phil had multiple conditions to manage: dive
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The Collector
At eight years old, my son Henry got really excited about cars. He did his research and learned the names of all the different makes and models. “Corvette C8!” or “Corvette Stingray!” he’d call out as we drove around town. I couldn’t tell the differe
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Kayaking to Heaven
We held my daughter Jill’s memorial service on the banks of the Nolichucky River in eastern Tennessee. After it was over, I stood off by myself, gazing into the rushing waters, heartbroken, devastated. How could she be gone? The light of my life for
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Only Human?
My daughters and I stopped for lunch in Salinas, California, on our way from the Bay Area to my parents’ house in San Luis Obispo. It was a familiar drive, but timing was everything this trip. We were meeting my brother to decorate a Christmas tree b
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Heaven’s Music
When the 2019 school year came to a close, Mrs. Orr’s first-grade class hosted a party to thank us Pet Partners volunteers (both two- and four-legged) for participating in a special program that helps young readers build confidence by reading to dogs
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Our Christmas Baby
Five children, plus one grandmother, all living under one roof in Long Island, New York, and with only one bathroom between us. My parents ran a full house in the winter of 1962, when they gathered us together for a surprising family announcement. “W
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Letters & Messages
Shopping for my mom’s January birthday had never been easy. She had a stack of unused gift cards to prove it. Last year, I made a certificate for a Lunch of the Month club. Mom, my sister and I were the exclusive members. One or the other of us took
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Walking in Grace
Boarding the plane, I was focused on my phone, trying to fire off as many work emails as I could before getting to my seat. Up ahead, there was a lady on one of those scooters built for people who were unable to walk long distances. Near the entrance
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Angel Sightings
The Bethesda Fountain has stood in Central Park since 1842, to commemorate the year fresh water came to New York City. What better symbol of the new water system than the Angel of the Waters from the Gospel of John, sculpted by Emma Stebbins. The Bet

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