Some Questions for Angels

 

Chuck and I started talking about angels a few weeks ago.  For some reason, neither of us can remember exactly what got us started.  It seems that I asked him a question about angels and he started googling on his laptop and we were off and running!

Several years ago, I wrote in my journal that I wanted to paint pictures of the unseen world.  I had no idea how I was going to do that at the time.  Or even what I meant by it.  But after Christmas, I felt compelled to try my hand at angels. 

My bluebird paintings usually have an angel somewhere in them, but I think I'm at a different place now...where the angels are going to be center stage. 

This painting is a cropped version of a digital painting I've been working on since Christmas.  It's about the story of Jacob's ladder in the Bible with a little twist...at least in the staircase!  I have a lot more work to do on it, but thought you might enjoy seeing it.

Here's a little late night journal entry from Sunday while pondering  my guardian angels.

I've been reading angel stories today.  It makes me wonder about my guardian angels.  Like where are they while I'm writing this...looking over my shoulder?...smiling at each other?...hovering above me near the ceiling?...or sitting beside me on the bed?

If I talk to them would they feel better?  Have I been ignoring them my entire life after all they've done for me?  Should I ask questions or their opinion about things?  Should I ask them to come enjoy the sunset or watch the clouds shifting in the wind?

Should I talk to them like I talk to God?  Should I ask them for ideas for paintings or  for directions when there is a fork in the road?

Would they like to discuss ideas for the garden?  I think angels like gardens.  It probably made them sad to guard the Garden of Eden from Adam and Eve.

Maybe my guardian angels sit outside in the garden when things are slow here with me.  Maybe they're the ones calling me out to play on the first warm day of spring...and every day after that! 

Maybe they like the garden for the same reason I do...there is so much to remind them of God there.  The color.  The beauty.  The mystery and magic of life.

Chuck is preaching a series of sermons on angels. You can read the first one,  Entertaining Angels: Who are Angels and Why Do We Need Them? at chuckwarnock.com