Meditations 5/2001
Hello everyone,<br
the May issue of Diabetes Forecast.
Enjoy.<br
moments in the stream of life rush past us
and we see nothing but sand; the angels come to visit
us, and we only know them when they are gone. George
Eliot<br
listen to my heart to make my own decision, but my head
also listens to people whom I respect. My friend Bob
Esbjornson refers to angels as “messengers of El,” the
Hebraic idea of angel. The book of Hebrews has a
statement about angels: “Do not neglect to show hospitality
to strangers, for thereby some have entertained
angels unawares.” I have heard and read that statement
many times over the years. I have wondered at its
meaning. My own response has been, “But, I’m busy, and my
house is a mess.” I have only looked at the meaning
literally, to mean people coming into my house.<br
efers to messages as angels. The messengers can be the
ideas in a book (read meditatively) or a movie or
lecture (watched and listened to meditatively). He refers
to authors as strangers to whom he opened his mind,
hospitable to the message. He said, “It’s a matter of being
hospitable to strangers, to people with ideas that are
unfamiliar to me but somehow connect with ideas at home in
my mind.”<br
kindled by people whom we know and by people whom we will
never meet. We nourish hope by what we read and hear.
Then, in moments of quiet reflection we reconnect with
that wisdom.<br
Love.<br