Saturday, May 28, 2005
"The Angels will follow us."
I was eating oatmeal with Rebekah and Benjamin this morning. In 8 days we'll leave for Florida. In 15 we'll be in Honduras. It's hard not to be a little anxious.
There was a great story I heard of a parent who overheard an older brother, say four or five, asking his younger sibling who was one or two, "Do you still see the angels? I can't see them anymore."
To be honest, for most of my life I did not believe in Angelic creatures. I'm not 100% sure I believe now but I'm closer to it. As a child of science and modern culture we are not too prone to believe in anything we can not see. I know it is difficult for me. I spent many hours scoffing at those "religionists" proclaiming angels and the devil. As a child of our culture I thought such ideas outmoded. I thought it infantile and anti intellectual. I believed my view, somehow more evolved.
I'm not so sure anymore.
The story above planted a seed in my head. What if small children can "see" what we can not. Maybe we forget. Maybe it is a gift that lasts only a short while in the spectrum in life. I started asking my little ones if they saw angels. It can't hurt to ask right? There answer does not prove anything but everytime I ask Benjamin if angels are in the room he points and nods his head. It is curious. Maybe this is the reason Babies can stare at lights and things for hours? I don't know.
The reason this is my topic is that at breakfast this morning I asked my four year old if we would experience God in Honduras. Rebekah nodded enthusiastically. "Yes" she said between bites of oatmeal, "The angels will follow us."
Sounds good to me.
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There was a great story I heard of a parent who overheard an older brother, say four or five, asking his younger sibling who was one or two, "Do you still see the angels? I can't see them anymore."
To be honest, for most of my life I did not believe in Angelic creatures. I'm not 100% sure I believe now but I'm closer to it. As a child of science and modern culture we are not too prone to believe in anything we can not see. I know it is difficult for me. I spent many hours scoffing at those "religionists" proclaiming angels and the devil. As a child of our culture I thought such ideas outmoded. I thought it infantile and anti intellectual. I believed my view, somehow more evolved.
I'm not so sure anymore.
The story above planted a seed in my head. What if small children can "see" what we can not. Maybe we forget. Maybe it is a gift that lasts only a short while in the spectrum in life. I started asking my little ones if they saw angels. It can't hurt to ask right? There answer does not prove anything but everytime I ask Benjamin if angels are in the room he points and nods his head. It is curious. Maybe this is the reason Babies can stare at lights and things for hours? I don't know.
The reason this is my topic is that at breakfast this morning I asked my four year old if we would experience God in Honduras. Rebekah nodded enthusiastically. "Yes" she said between bites of oatmeal, "The angels will follow us."
Sounds good to me.
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