Many of us remember seeing this
image as children. Perhaps unsophisticated or schmaltzy, it nonetheless
communicates the truth of God's all enveloping care and watchfulness as
embodied in the Angel Guardians.
A
thousand may fall at your side,
ten
thousand fall at your right:
you
it will never approach.
Your
eyes have only to look
to
see how the wicked are repaid.
For
you, O Lord, are my refuge.
You
have made the Most High your dwelling.
Upon
you no evil shall fall,
no
plague approach where you dwell.
For
you has he commanded his angels
to
keep you in all your ways.
They
shall bear you upon their hands,
lest
you strike your foot against a stone…
Since
he clings to me in love, I will free him,
protect
him, for he knows my name. Psalm 91
