Time, ferry me down the river
Friends carry me safely over
Life, tend me on my journey
Love call me home.
~ song lyrics by Peggy Seeger
To study angels is to shed light on ourselves, especially those aspects of ourselves that have been put down in our secularized civilizations, our secularized educational systems, and even our secularized worship system. By secularization, I mean anything that sucks the awe out of things.