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This morning I walked in to a bunch of New York Times<\/em> newspaper clippings scattered across my desk, each one from a different coworker, every one the same story\u2014about an angel with a cellphone.<\/p>\n

It seems a Dutch sculptor won a 1997 competition to create new statues for the ancient St. John the Evangelist Cathedral in the Netherlands. Ton Mooy, the sculptor, made 40 statues, 14 of them angels, one of them highly unconventional.<\/p>\n

The Little Angel, slouching slightly, in blue jeans and with a laptop bag over her shoulder, has a cellphone pressed against her ear and the look my 14-year-old daughter haswhen she\u2019s listening intently to a friend and shouldn\u2019t be disturbed. The body language and downward glance suggest, This is an <\/em>important call.<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cAngels are there to guide, to protect people,\u201d Ton Mooy said about his thoroughly modern take on a beloved subject. \u201cThey get messages from above. How do you show that? With a cellphone!\u201d<\/p>\n

A local couple couldn\u2019t have agreed more. They printed business cards with a picture of the Little Angel\u2014and her very own telephone number. The wife is the \u201cvoice\u201d of Little Angel, and has answered calls from all kinds of people, some asking for prayers, some for solace, some looking for a moment\u2019s companionship. Her favorite callers are children wanting to know if the Little Angel is cold, or worrying that she has no umbrella in the rain! \u201cIn most cases,\u201d she says, \u201cthere is laughter.\u201d<\/p>\n

And why not, when spreading joy is also the work of the angels. I sure got a laugh out of the dozen or so copies of this story torn from yesterday\u2019s paper. And I felt blessed that all these earth angels I work with read this story and thought of me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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