Occasionally the angelic purpose is to warn. But most often it is to comfort, to provide some form of merciful attention, guidance in difficult times.

Even the Son of God, a God Himself, had need for heavenly comfort during His sojourn in mortality.

The latter days are not a time to fear and tremble. They are a time to be believing and remember our covenants.

This is Fatherhood

he knew I had crossed the river and was in danger. Because it was dark and time was of the essence, he removed his clothes down to his long white thermal underwear, tied his shoes around his neck, and swam a treacherous river to rescue a wayward son.

On occasions, global or personal, we may feel we are distanced from God, shut out from heaven, lost, alone in dark and dreary places. Often enough that distress can be of our own making, but even then the Father of us all is watching and assisting. And always there are those angels who come and go all around us, seen and unseen, known and unknown, mortal and immortal.

Instruction:

• May we all believe more readily in, and have more gratitude for, the Lord’s promise as contained in one of President Monson’s favorite scriptures: “I will go before your face. I will be on your right hand and on your left, . . . my Spirit shall be in your [heart], and mine angels round about you, to bear you up.”
• In the process of praying for those angels to attend us, may we all try to be a little more angelic ourselves – with a kind word, a strong arm, a declaration of faith and “the covenant wherewith [we] have covenanted.”