Guardian Angel, Walk Angelward

Guardian Angels

We each have an angel assigned to us, a guardian angel, who accompanies us along our paths through lifetimes. Our angel has an overview that it is not possible for us to have. Angelic awareness sees, takes in, and remembers everything for us. As the carrier of our higher self, our angel can remember what we have been and who we want to become. Angels listen to our thoughts. Our angel’s eyes radiate love, recognition. To become aware of one’s angel is to feel oneself to be watched over, seen and deeply recognized.

 The Angel In You

   Rose Auslander

Elihu Vedder, The Sorrowing Soul Between Doubt and Faith

The angel in you

Rejoices over

Your light

Weeps over your darkness

Out of his wings whisper

Words of love

Poems, tender affection.

He watches over

Your path

Direct your step

Angelward.

 But our angel and the spiritual world have given all of us a particularly precious and important gift—our freedom. Nothing is determined. Opportunities are presented to us. Our angel may gently suggest through inspirations, thoughts, atmospheres, will impulses. But whether we respond, or not, and how we respond, is entirely up to us. How we play our life’s music is our choice.

How can we strengthen our connection with our own angel? How can we work in community with the world of the angels? Every quieting of feelings of irritation or anger or envy or fear creates space for our angel’s clarity of conscious and overview to enter our souls. All our efforts at meditation, all religious practice, contribute to this. (It is not important whether we judge ourselves to be successful or not in these endeavors; what angels can make use of is the strength of our striving; it is the activity itself that is of use to them.) All these help us in walking with our angel; they are ways of ‘directing our steps angelward’.

Cynthia Hindes

1st St. Johnstide 2018, Tailor Your Robe

Mark 1, 1-13

This is the beginning of the new word from the realm of the angels, sounding forth through Jesus Christ. Fulfilled is the word of the prophet Isaiah:

Tamara Rigishvili

Behold, I send my angel before your face.
He is to prepare your way.
Hear the voice of one calling in the loneliness of the human soul
Prepare the way for the Lord within the soul,
Make his paths straight, so that he may find entrance into Man’s innermost being!

Thus did John the Baptist appear in the loneliness of the desert. He proclaimed Baptism, the way of a change of heart and mind, for the acknowledgment of sin. And they went out to him from all of Judea and Jerusalem and received baptism from him in the river Jordan and recognized and confessed their failings.

John wore a garment of camel’s hair and a leather belt around his waist. Fruits and wild honey were his food. And he proclaimed: ‘After me comes one who is mightier than I. I am not even worthy to bend down before Him and to undo the straps of His sandals. I have baptized you with water, but He will baptize you with the fire of the Holy [healing] Spirit.’

In those days it happened: Jesus of Nazareth came to Galilee and was baptized in the Jordan by John.
And at the same time, as he rose up again out of the water, he beheld how the spheres of the heavens were torn open, and the spirit of God descended upon him like a dove.

And a voice sounded from the world of the spirit: ‘You are my son, the beloved —in you is my revelation.’ [‘Today I have conceived (begotten) you.’ Luke 3:22]

1^st St. Johnstide
June 24, 2018
Mark 1: 1-11
 
“Behold, I send my angel before your face. He is to prepare your way. Hear the voice of one crying in the loneliness of the human soul.” Mark 1:1, 2

These words, of course, refer to John the Baptizer, and his role in preparing the way for Christ Jesus. At the same time, we can certainly resonate with the mood of these words; for many of us, this desert loneliness of the human soul is how modern life feels. We all feel like John.

At the same time, we each also

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have an angel that walks before us. This angel helps us make straight our own soul paths so that Christ can find entrance into the depths of our hearts.

We are hovering at the solstice. The year is turning. As the outer light diminishes, it will turn into warmth. Now is the time to begin again; to turn around, to change our hearts and minds. It is time to begin to turn inward, to warm our hearts. As the poet says:

This is now.  Now is,
all there is.  Don't wait for Then;
strike the spark, light the fire.
….
The green earth
is your cloth;
tailor your robe
with dignity and grace.*

*Rumi, “Begin”, (adapted by Jose Orez from a version by Coleman Barks in The Soul of Rumi).  

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