We are children of God and he has given angels charge concerning us!!

I know there are days (and probably years) when you have not felt like a precious child of our Heavenly Father. You may not have known how it felt to be cherished and unconditionally loved. There is one that does love us each unconditionally.  I am sure there have been many times where it would be easy to doubt his awarenss of us down here on earth, but I believe that he is aware of us and that he does send angles to watch over us. I love this beautiful quote by President George Q. Cannon.  

“There is not one of us but what God’s love has been expended upon. There is not one of us that He has not cared for and caressed. There is not one of us that He has not desired to save, and that He has not devised means to save. There is not one of us that He has not given His angels charge concerning. We may be insignificant and contemptible in our own eyes, and in the eyes of others, but the truth remains that we are the children of God, and that He has actually given His angels—invisible beings of power and might—charge concerning us, and they watch over us and have us in their keeping."

Can you think of small moments that you have felt his awareness of you. It is usually in little ways. But as we keep track of those times in our life we can turn to those memories during the tougher times.

I can think of two times that stand out in my memory of when I felt god was aware of me. One day during my college years when I was nearing the end of my senior year and I was feeling ugly, lonely, lost and confused -I went to the temple to think and ponder. A sweet little elderly temple worker came up to me and said that she felt that she just needed to tell me how beautiful she thought I was. She did not know what I was struggling with at the time and I have never seen her since. But I felt the spirit witness to me that God was aware of how I was feeling. Another time around those same years I was home for the summer from college. I had not spoken to any of my high school friends in years. I was feeling very alone and again that no one cared. I was tearful expressing my loneliness in my room to God in prayer when my mom called me down to say that a high school friend of mine was at the door. This friend said she had been walking down the street and something told her to stop and ring the door bell. She did not know if I even still lived there -but decided to take the chance. Again I felt the Lord was letting me know that he was aware of me. Now these are small and insignificant examples and I have had many more. But more than what happened --it was the spirit and the feelings that I felt. I felt the Lord was close by. What you can you do to feel those feelings of the Lord more in your life? How can you allow yourself to more freely feel those feelings of love from him and from yourself?