I have met another angel and he is a student of mine who has Autism. If any of you are familiar with Autism, it is a social disorder which hinders a person to fully connect with people around them. It also gives a person who has this disorder a rare gift of incredible intelligence!
I knew right away that me and this young man, my 6th grade angel would become dear friends. Lucas often seems as though he is in another world, staring around the room, looking at something, thinking about something, seeking something that the rest of us just don't get. When I say good morning to Lucas I rarely get a response, but sometimes I get the rare smile that brightens my day because those days are few and far between. When Lucas connects with me, I take notice and I feel as though there has been a break through.
Lucas reminds me of the concept that I should be living for a different Kingdom. The Kingdom of Heaven. The Kingdom that Jesus teaches through the Beatitudes, that blessed are the Poor in spirit, those who recognize their place for God and recognize their broken state.
When his eyes are wondering and he seems to be in another world, I think of how I should be constantly living for the Kingdom of God. Focusing on the Father's purposes, but also connecting the world with love, just as Lucas connects with me with a simple smile. This is the message this little angel has imparted on me. It is okay if we feel as though we are from another place and have another ruler other than what this world knows. I am a child of God, therefore my focus is heavenward, and my King is Jesus.
Thursday, January 21, 2010
Monday, December 21, 2009
Everyday Angels
If you chose to read my blog you will be reading just short encounters I make everyday with people possibly like you and me. People that bring me messages everyday. In the Old Testament in the Bible, the word "Angel," means "messenger" and I am currently trying to take notice of the messages and lessons I am learning everyday and the people who deliver these messages!
For as Hebrews 13: 2 says: "Do not forget to entertain strangers, for by so doing some people have entertained angels without knowing it."
If we rush through life too fast without stopping to truly see people we will miss these angels! We will miss these messages that God is possibly trying to tell us through others. They might not be the prettiest people, the most popular, the fastest, strongest, most wise, but they are angels none the less. They are often people we would normally just pass by.
I will start with my first angel who happens to be my preachers little granddaughter who has Down Syndrome. She might not be the swiftest at some things but she knows how to love greater that anyone I have ever met. Whenever she sees someone, she shouts their name with incredible joy and then hugs them and holds them a while, squeezing their hands, rubbing their shoulder, and just speaking through her little eyes to all she meets that whoever she is talking to matters and has value. Whoever meets this little angel is touched with a love so sincere, so genuine, and so pure that they will never be able to forget meeting her. She is a little girl of the age of 19 and she blesses everyone she meets through her pure joy!!
I was blessed with staying the night over at her house and I got to wake up to an angel singing!!! It was this precious little girl, singing praises to our Lord!!! It might of been still dark outside and the hour that you only usually hear the faint sound of crickets chirping or the snoring of others in your home of 5:45 AM, but it was the hour of JOY and the best way of waking up. I pray I can have a heart like hers where I wake up praising our Lord and Savior, for he is good. Always. Thank you little angel for singing your joyful song everyday and teaching me the message that we should be praising God with out ceasing from the moment we rise to the moment we lay our head down!
Another little side note about this little girl, she is often found talking to people when nobody is around her. You walk into the room and she is alone having a full conversation with somebody else. I think that somebody else is an angel.
For as Hebrews 13: 2 says: "Do not forget to entertain strangers, for by so doing some people have entertained angels without knowing it."
If we rush through life too fast without stopping to truly see people we will miss these angels! We will miss these messages that God is possibly trying to tell us through others. They might not be the prettiest people, the most popular, the fastest, strongest, most wise, but they are angels none the less. They are often people we would normally just pass by.
I will start with my first angel who happens to be my preachers little granddaughter who has Down Syndrome. She might not be the swiftest at some things but she knows how to love greater that anyone I have ever met. Whenever she sees someone, she shouts their name with incredible joy and then hugs them and holds them a while, squeezing their hands, rubbing their shoulder, and just speaking through her little eyes to all she meets that whoever she is talking to matters and has value. Whoever meets this little angel is touched with a love so sincere, so genuine, and so pure that they will never be able to forget meeting her. She is a little girl of the age of 19 and she blesses everyone she meets through her pure joy!!
I was blessed with staying the night over at her house and I got to wake up to an angel singing!!! It was this precious little girl, singing praises to our Lord!!! It might of been still dark outside and the hour that you only usually hear the faint sound of crickets chirping or the snoring of others in your home of 5:45 AM, but it was the hour of JOY and the best way of waking up. I pray I can have a heart like hers where I wake up praising our Lord and Savior, for he is good. Always. Thank you little angel for singing your joyful song everyday and teaching me the message that we should be praising God with out ceasing from the moment we rise to the moment we lay our head down!
Another little side note about this little girl, she is often found talking to people when nobody is around her. You walk into the room and she is alone having a full conversation with somebody else. I think that somebody else is an angel.
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