A recent video posting on YouTube related the story of a woman who believes she picked up an angel who was hitchhiking during a snowstorm. As her story ends, she reveals why she believed she was blessed to encounter an angel. She explained that when she let the person out of her car, the person seemed to disappear into the storm, and concerned that he might have fallen, she walked around to the passenger side, only to find no footprints or other disturbance in the snow.
Naturally, there is more to the story, but I’ll let you see for yourself.
Once you have watched the video, I invite you to scroll down and read the comments. Suddenly, the experience in the video seems to be more common than you might expect. If we consider that those commenting have nothing to gain from their comments, it adds credibility to their statements.
Our traditional image of an angel is a winged spiritual being, wearing a pure white robe, and maybe carrying a harp. Yet, we would be hard-pressed to find such a description in the Bible. In the memories of many who have described encounters with angels, the angels are usually described as ordinary human forms, It is only in their actions that these angles reveal themselves. Moreover, they usually appear at a critical moment, then are never seen again. We might wonder if we would recognize a guardian angel if we met one.
So where does this fit in with our on-going challenge to apply logic to our questions on faith?
Like so many other aspects of our existence, we have to concede that, just because we haven’t personally experienced something, that doesn’t mean it isn’t real. In fact, if we were to be completely open-minded on the subject, we might realize that we may have in fact, had an experience with the spirit world, we may have had contact with angels, but we are not tuned in to that frequency. The din of our day-to-day lives is so overwhelming, that it reduces our ability to detect those subtle signals of the spirit realm.
If angels are God’s messengers, and if God has a plan, however humble, for our lives, perhaps we have been rescued from our own folly, multiple times. Perhaps God’s angels hover over us, directing our path to help us reach our goal in this life or to place us at the time and place to serve God’s purpose.
And maybe, just maybe, each of us has an opportunity to strap on those angel wings and serve God’s purpose by being at the right place and right time to be that angel for someone else.