It Took Angels

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 It took Angels to show me the way.  I grew up in the Church.  Went to Christian colleges and have a degree from seminary.  Was a pastor.  But it took Angels to show me the way.  They replaced all that complex theology with a simple statement.  They simplified it all.  That simplicity is too simple for most, which is why I left the Church and never went back.  Beliefs don’t matter.  What matters boils down to one thing:  Respect for Human Life including my own.

Not sure where I’d be without my Angels.  More than likely I’d never see my 43rd birthday.  But here it is 31 years later.  And after two brushes with death, I’m still here alive and kickin’, as they say.  If I had lived, I have no idea what I’d be like without them.  I have all kinds of scenarios in my head.  But things would be far different without them.  I just have no idea.  I can only guess.  And not one guess has a good outcome.  

I was literally saved by Angels.  Nothing else would have saved me.  I now say I’d be the most righteous in hell.  But now it’s just the opposite.  I am the least likely to be in heaven.  But that would not have been my final destination without Angels.  I still struggle from time to time, but now they are defeated instead of the struggles defeating me.  I am certain I wouldn’t have come this far without them.

These are my thoughts this morning about my Angels.  I ponder my life with my Angels as much as I can.  I am very thankful for all they did and are still doing.  I think about it all while smoking my pipe.  I love to ponder my Angels the most.  My pipe this morning is my Boswell pipe and my tobacco is Byzantium.  My coffee this morning is Mt. Comfort.  Thank you for your time and Peace to each one of you.

Dave

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