In our lesson for today the angel Gabriel makes an announcement to the virgin Mary that will change the world forever.

But before we get to that, I ran across some thoughts on the Internet that children have expressed about angels. I thought you would enjoy them this close to Christmas:

“I only know the names of two angels,” says Gregory, age 5. “Hark and Harold.”

“Everybody’s got it all wrong,” says Olive, age 9. “Angels don’t wear halos anymore. I forget why, but scientists are working on it.”

“It’s not easy to become an angel!” contends Matthew, age 9. “First, you die. Then you go to heaven, and then there’s still the flight training to go through. And then you got to agree to wear those angel clothes.”

“Angels work for God and watch over kids when God has to go do something else,”…