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Topic: ANGELS WATCHING OVER ME (don’t write about the song) (06/04/15)
As a little girl, Rosie had a vivid imagination. She would imagine objects coming to life in her room, she’d see shapes and imagine they were creatures in the dark. When Rosie’s parents told her stories of Angels in the Bible, a kind of fear kicked in. A fear that one day an Angel would come and wake her in the night.

As Rosie grew, she continued to carry a fear of the Angelic. A fear that meant sometimes she’d keep the light on at night.

One day, in late November, many years later, this all changed. Rosie was at University, studying Theology while also helping with a local kids club. The kids club was in the heart of a rough estate in Glasgow and Rosie was grappling with what the future was going to look like.

Rosie was taking a prayer walk around the estate when, as she started to walk down one side of a massive tower block of flats, she looked ahead to see two threatening looking men coming towards her. Instantly, she turned back to walk the other way around the tower block, full of fear. As soon as she started to walk the next side of the tower block, the same two men were walking towards her. “Strange” she thought to herself “how have they possibly gone such a distance in such a short space of time?”

Rosie kept walking towards the men very tentatively, and very nearly turning back and running towards the University. Then she looked at their faces and upon them were the greatest smiles she’d ever seen. There was something so warming, so welcoming and she kept walking. The closer she got, the more peace she felt, the more she felt a strange warmth inside her heart.

Both gentlemen continued to walk towards her until they came to meet.

“What a beautiful day!” one of them said as Rosie then looked up to a very grey sky and snuggled her winter coat in even tighter.

“The winter is over, Spring Time is here!” said the other one with the most joyous smile ever.

Then the two men simply continued walking.

Rosie was totally baffled and for a second or two thought upon their completely untimely remarks. Then she quickly turned her head to respond.

Nothing. Nobody there.

She looked all over and even ran to the end of the tower block. Nobody in sight within the area.

An excitement rose up within which she had never felt before and she ran back to the University where a Day of Prayer was continuing.

On her return she was greeted with someone standing up and sharing, “I don’t know if this means anything to anyone here but I felt God give me this scripture”...

“Look, the winter is past, and the rains are over and gone. The flowers are springing up, the season of singing birds has come, and the cooing of turtledoves fills the air.” SONG of SONGS 2:11-12

Rosie’s heart filled with realisation. It was one of the first times she had felt that the voice of God was bringing hope into the heart of her situation. Instantly she was filled with expectation that Jesus knew the cry of her heart and was right there with her.

Simultaneously she knew that she had just encountered two angels in very real and human form.

That the Angelic was not at all to be feared.

This encounter opened Rosie’s eyes to the possibility that Angels are all around us, are constantly watching over us. This was the first of many Angelic encounters which brought so much joy and hope as Rosie journeyed through life.
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Loni Bowden-Horn 
06/15/15
I enjoyed the pace of this story. I may have double-spaced between paragraphs to make the story easier to read. It was a valid point you made in your piece to not be in fear of angels. It must be a common experience to fear because God quite often said, "fear not" when he sent angels.
Yvonne Blake 
06/16/15
Interesting!
I love how God gives peace instead of fear.
I don't know why you capitalized the word "angel." Usually only things of God are capitalized.
Well written.
Shann Hall-LochmannVanBennekom 
06/16/15
I enjoyed the journey you took me on. I could really relate to Rosie. I have some agoraphobia and it's hard to get out and do things. I've had a fear of death or the rapture since I was little too. I could relate to Rosie's fear of angels.

My main red ink would be to encourage you to double check when you use capital letters. Words like angels, spring, and university would be common nouns in most cases and start with a lowercase letter. If they are proper nouns--used as a name, then it would start with a capital letter. A good way to test it is see if you can substitute a name. For example: running towards the University.
If you switch it with Harvard, it wouldn't sound correct: running towards the Harvard.
That doesn't work with all of the examples. When you mention angels in the Bible, you aren't using it as a proper noun, but a common. Some had names (Gabriel, Michael), but others are generic like using humans to describe people in general. I hope that makes sense and doesn't confuse you more.

You really did a wonderful job. I loved the verse you used. I think it's the first time I saw it in this week's stories. It makes your point, but also stands out as fresh and a great message. Nice job.
Noel Mitaxa 
06/16/15
A dramatic moment for Rosie to break through her fear, which yiou have described well.