Elder Holland States “Not All Angels are from the Other Side of the Veil”

“When we speak of those who are instruments in the hand of God, we are reminded that not all angels are from the other side of the veil.

Some of them we walk with and talk with—here, now, every day.

Some of them reside in our own neighborhoods.

Some of them gave birth to us, and in my case, one of them consented to marry me.

Indeed, heaven never seems closer than when we see the love of God manifested in the kindness and devotion of people so good and so pure that angelic is the only word that comes to mind.”

Many of those angels in our lives have spent countless hours caring for us, at the sacrifice of their own comfort and interests. Elder Holland spoke of these caregivers:

“For those of you who earnestly seek to bear another’s burdens, it is important that you refortify yourself and build yourself back up when others expect so much of you and indeed take so much out of you. No one is so strong that he or she does not ever feel fatigued or frustrated or recognize the need to care for themselves.

Jesus certainly experienced that fatigue, felt the drain on His strength. He gave and gave, but there was a cost attached to that, and He felt the effects of so many relying on Him. When the woman with an issue of blood touched Him in the crowd, He healed her, but He also noted that “virtue had gone out of him.”