Are angels nearby?

Unseen Help

Your relatives and dear ones often come from the unseen world to help and protect you, but the angels always do. Yet they have never been allowed to make themselves visible to you except at a few times of very special need. In ways you do not recognise, they influence you towards holy thoughts and incline you towards God and good conduct, and God's Spirit, dwelling in your heart, completes that work, for the perfecting of your spiritual life, which you have been unable to accomplish.