Germany

Since then, I have written a foreword for a book by the best-selling German Christian voice, the monk Ansel Grün, when he was published in Danish in 2020 with “Alle mennesker har en engel” by Hovedland. Among other things, I wrote: Of course, we cannot look at angels with the eyes of a child, writes Anselm Grün, once we become adults.

Then we must look at them with the knowledgeable and sensible eye of an adult, and that is exactly what he can teach us.
If you, as an adult, see the angels’ starting point in your life, if you see the angelic footprints, as he calls them, then you can, in his words, come to “healing and liberation”.
You are set free because you understand that there is an angel near each and every one of us.

We have simply repressed it.

Many actively reject the child and its knowledge. Grow up, we may angrily exclaim. How childish you are, it can sound patronizing.

After reading Anselm Grün, I would argue the opposite.
If we talk, as children do, to whatever or whoever he calls our guardian angel, we can sensibly have a conversation about what to do in our lives.”