Some of you (very few maybe) know I collect angel figurines. They come in all shapes and sizes, and they are a fun assortment of mine, though I don’t have many. While we were in the hospital I also received a beautiful quote from a friend by Elder Jeffrey Holland. It says:
“Not all angels are from the other side of the veil. Some of them we walk with and talk with—here, now, every day. Some of them reside in our own neighborhoods. Some of them gave birth to us. Indeed, heaven never seems closer than when we see the love of God manifested in the kindness and devotion of people so good and so pure that angelic is the only word that comes to mind.”
It is interesting to me that the very things I love to collect are so important to me now. I’ve always believed in angels on the other side watching over us, and now every time we turn around we find angels among us on earth.
Jace is sick to his stomach this week. He awakes ill in the night, and he is barely eating anything. His first bite of food today was French toast at 12 noon- and even then it was one bite. I talked him into a cheese stick, and he did eat a few small pretzels. In the late afternoons and evenings he has been perking up a bit and playing around the house and outside. He’s starting to go stir crazy I think. I’m not sure how he feels about Halloween—everyone is feeling so sad for him that maybe he won’t have a “normal” Halloween, but he doesn’t feel “normal” so I don’t think he cares. He feels mostly sick.
