The channel Off the Left Eye asked a question.
"What impressions do you have of angels?"
This is my home turf. The stream of responses from readers has been steady, and rich. One woman wrote about how her mother had them leave a plate of food for the angels on Christmas, and it was always empty in the morning. Another wrote about an inexplicable time when he escaped unharmed from an inevitable crash. One person said she feels a tap on the shoulder of "It's time to go" and when she heeds it, things go well. If she ignores it, not so much. One woman said
she heard a message reassuring her that she would be protected through the upcoming storm. The next few years were indeed tumultuous, and yet she felt somehow loved.
While I have no knock-your-socks-off examples of my own, I have been asking friends about it for years. One of John's aunts told us of the time she witnessed her daughter falling down the stairs to the
basement, and at the past possible second, gently landed. This was from the sixties, long before angel lore was in vogue.
I have had whispers of things that may seem inconsequential to others. Once was when we were looking to buy a car, and when I drove by a red van parked on the street with a FOR SALE sign, knew it was meant for us. I can neither use it to prove
anything spiritual to someone else, nor cite it as an example for car shopping, but it did guide me in a time I needed help.
One way I have experienced angels is in a cloud. I have been enveloped in a puff of protection, in circumstances that could have gone badly. It is a tender awareness, and cannot really withstand interrogation. Yet it has hovered behind my shoulders
for my whole life. I felt it as a child, and it stays with me even now as I walk through Philly toward the hospital for my shift.
The part I cannot piece together is how other people are not protected. Apparently. Many threads of logic fall apart, and could take me with them.
But there is one bright beacon that keeps my heart from breaking.
"The joy you will feel in heaven will be infinitely greater than the pain you endured on earth."