YES, INDEED SHE WAS WITH US
Friends have come to our aid in ways great and small since hearing about our car accident on Saturday morning. The phone calls and emails have meant so much. The loan of a vehicle for Sean and Shana, who don't have rental car insurance, was over the top. It's an amazing thing belonging to the Body of Christ, and to the Presbyterian Church in Peace River. I thank God at every remembrance of each of you who have reached out to us in Christian love.
While we wait for insurance companies to sort out the mess of tangled cars and wait to learn what we need to do next, I am aware of the blessing of having all four of us: Sam, me, Isaac and Lauren walk away from so much destruction. Polly said it well, "your angel was with you."
Presbyterian's aren't known for speaking about angels much, for which there are likely myriad reasons. Such spiritual beings seem alternately spooky, childish or anti-intellectual to most. Not worth considering to others. And yet...
Over the years I've found I have a rather well developed 'angel-ology' having perused every reference to them in both the old and new testaments. Once, after having delivered a sermon about these beings, a member of the congregation came up to tell me that I'd done a very fine and thorough job on such an inane subject!
My understanding of these creatures (that's part of what I beleive about them, that they are created by God) is that they are, in and of themselves, will-less beings. Scripture does not attest to them having a free will as we do, which means they make no independent choices. Rather they're beings who move at the impulse of God's will alone. God send's His angels to us to watch, protect, report, aid, announce, comfort... and a host of other duties outlined in Scripture. When or where or how they appear is not for us to know or choose.
I have a very real vision that on the infamous September 11th, there were as many angels as victims in the Twin Towers--one for each of them, sent to guide them home. A whole legion of angels a gathering to wonderful and terrible to imagine.
So on Saturday morning, as glass shattered and cars crumpled, as airbags were deployed and a passer-by phoned 911, in ways we will never truly be able to name, angels were with us not because of anything we did or said but because God uses these heavenly creatures to watch, protect, aid, and comfort.
Polly's email reminded me of all that I believe about angels. Thanks Polly. Yes, indeed she was with us. BLESSINGS and JOY, THE CELTIC MONK
While we wait for insurance companies to sort out the mess of tangled cars and wait to learn what we need to do next, I am aware of the blessing of having all four of us: Sam, me, Isaac and Lauren walk away from so much destruction. Polly said it well, "your angel was with you."
Presbyterian's aren't known for speaking about angels much, for which there are likely myriad reasons. Such spiritual beings seem alternately spooky, childish or anti-intellectual to most. Not worth considering to others. And yet...
Over the years I've found I have a rather well developed 'angel-ology' having perused every reference to them in both the old and new testaments. Once, after having delivered a sermon about these beings, a member of the congregation came up to tell me that I'd done a very fine and thorough job on such an inane subject!
My understanding of these creatures (that's part of what I beleive about them, that they are created by God) is that they are, in and of themselves, will-less beings. Scripture does not attest to them having a free will as we do, which means they make no independent choices. Rather they're beings who move at the impulse of God's will alone. God send's His angels to us to watch, protect, report, aid, announce, comfort... and a host of other duties outlined in Scripture. When or where or how they appear is not for us to know or choose.
I have a very real vision that on the infamous September 11th, there were as many angels as victims in the Twin Towers--one for each of them, sent to guide them home. A whole legion of angels a gathering to wonderful and terrible to imagine.
So on Saturday morning, as glass shattered and cars crumpled, as airbags were deployed and a passer-by phoned 911, in ways we will never truly be able to name, angels were with us not because of anything we did or said but because God uses these heavenly creatures to watch, protect, aid, and comfort.
Polly's email reminded me of all that I believe about angels. Thanks Polly. Yes, indeed she was with us. BLESSINGS and JOY, THE CELTIC MONK
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