Fourteen Angels

I was very ill with bronchitis. I had been in bed for several days. My temperature would not go down. 

One night, I sat up in bed. I said, “I have done all that I know how to do. I’ve got to be released from this.” 

During the night, I could feel the bronchitis, the illness moving. I felt it settling into my left lung. Then, I began to feel this massaging of my left long. 

My body around me was being massaged. It was so noticeable that it startled me. It woke me up. I said, “What is this?” 

There was a reply. It said, “We are your 14 angels. We have come to make you well.” 

So time went on. The first Sunday after all of this, I went to church. The minister said, “I have special music today. The soloist will now sing Fourteen Angels. I had never heard of that song, before since. It was so beautiful. 

Note: if it is true, that our souls each have an assignment, upon coming to earth – that is, a purpose which needs to be fulfilled; perhaps the friend who told me this experience was a bit behind schedule and simply needed to get on about the work of it, and was given a boost. 

“Fourteen Angels” by Jeffrey Van 

“When at night I go to sleep

14 angels watch do keep

Two my head are guarding

Two my feet are guiding

Two to whom 'tis given

To guide my steps

To heaven

To guide me

When at dawn my eyes do wake

14 angels my peace do take

Two there are who need me

Two there are who feed me

Two who sway before me show me

All I've known

Is wrong, that I am

Not me

Two there are to take my soul

Away from here

To guide my steps”

Billye Jones 

Excerpt from Angel Power, Angel Love. Other books by Billye are The Essence of Loving and Women Pioneers in 12 Step Recovery.