"Then the angel said to him, “Put on your clothes and sandals.” And Peter did so. “Wrap your cloak around you and follow me,” the angel told him. Peter followed him out of the prison, but he had no idea that what the angel was doing was really happening; he thought he was seeing a vision."
Acts: 12:8-9
'Where were you when I laid the earth’s foundation?
Tell me, if you understand.
Who marked off its dimensions? Surely you know!
Who stretched a measuring line across it?
On what were its footings set,
or who laid its cornerstone—
while the morning stars sang together
and all the angels shouted for joy?'
Job 38:4-7
I wonder what happened to us when we stopped believing in angels.
Did they stop believing in us?
Or do they sit waiting for us to eventually (perhaps only at the last minute) to turn our gaze back to them?
There was a time painters captured the image of angels on the vaults of cathedrals. Perhaps that made us too lazy to look for the real ones (when all the painters wanted to do was remind us!)
Sometimes, if you turn your head very quickly, you might still catch a glimpse of one. Look! Quick!
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