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Be an Angel Day
Channel your inner earth angel and celebrate this national holiday by reaching out to others.
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This Sunday, August 22nd marks the 17th annual Be an Angel Day, celebrated throughout North America and several other countries. The day encourages us to give thanks for angels by imitating them.
What does it mean to be angelic? Practice acts of kindness and help others in need (anonymously if that's possible, just like angels often do).
Be an Angel Day was started by Jayne Howard of Upperco, Maryland in 1993 when angels were beginning to attract some attention among the general population.
The idea caught on, and people organized festivals, parades and art fairs devoted to angels. Often angel food was served as part of the celebration.
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Many people reported seeing rainbows that day even when it was not raining.
Jayne and other angel experts received recognition in the press, and the holiday’s popularity grew, with Be an Angel Day celebrated in twenty countries.
As the years continued, Be an Angel Day evolved into a day of helping others. Today it’s primarily a non-denominational, non-profit event, and the manner of serving is left up to each participant.
The angelic help you can offer is not defined or limited. It can be physical, emotional, or spiritual. Think about paying a stranger's toll, sending an anonymous card to someone who needs cheering up, or, if you can afford it, buy some groceries for a family out of work and leave them on the porch. Donate blood. Take a child on a nature walk or help her plant a tree. Visit someone in a hospital or nursing home.
“The primary goal,” says Jayne, “is to reach someone who is shut off from love.”
The angels, our faithful companions, are sure to be delighted as we share our knowledge of them with one another. Make their day a special one, and it will be doubly special for you.
Joan W. Anderson has been involved with angels for many years and has authored numerous angel books, including Guardian Angels: True Stories of Answered Prayers.
Visit her website or, if you have a question about angels, you can email it to her at: janderson@guideposts.com.
Download your free ebook Angel Sightings: 7 Inspirational Stories About Heavenly Angels and Everyday Angels on Earth.
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Your Comments
There are scams and fraudulent actions taking place today in
our finances on a small, personal level...such as in the bank
account of one, low-income person. This has happened in my
life and I know the reality of it! While I let myself be a
victim because of an attempt to trust a voice over the telephone which is telling me one thing in order to get infor-
mation from me to get into my finances...it infuriates! yes
and in the end defeats any good purpose. Some angels in the
history of angels were not good, but were used for evil instead! and so we must be warned that an angel is not a god
but a being lower-than-God and angels are not the object of
our worship. Rather, God's Son Jesus the Christ is to be
held in awe and reverence and Him alone worshipped.
You are completely right about us not worshiping angels. I am truly unaware of any angel "expert" who would advise that. Jesus, God's only Son, deserves our exclusive worship.
But do remember that in the Book of Exodus, God says that He is sending angels to us and that we should follow them and do what they say. He is not replacing anything, but simply adding, reassuring us that it is okay for us to pay attention to our angels too.
Blessings, Joan Wester Anderson
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