Tale of two angels

THE other day, I revisited an online lecture about angels. It played while I worked on reviewing retouched pictures. One of the angel tales made me smile.

Clearly, angels figure quite prominently in all religions, to include Islam. According to the lecture I listened to, the Islamic belief about guardian angels has it that we each have two guardian angles. One of them writes down all of the good deeds of the human s/he watches. The other one writes down all of the misdeeds. Fair enough.

What made me smile is this. The angel who writes down all of the good deeds does so immediately. As in, right away, now, quickly. Thus, the record of good deeds gets written on the Akashic records (where every thought, feeling, word, and action is recorded) immediately. Now the other angel, writing of one's misdeeds, waits for one hour before committing a misdeed to record.

Imagine that. The angel gives her/his ward one hour to correct the thought, feeling, word, or action that is not of the good. I imagine that the crucial hour is there for one to unthink a cruel thought, perhaps, or process oneself out of an unworthy feeling, take back words better left unspoken, undo a wrong deed.

After the hour, I guess the misdeed is final and executory, damning its doer to reap of what s/he sows, in even greater amounts than sent out. The other side of this is, of course, that the good deeds come around with just the same accuracy.

Speaking of guardian angels, the Islamic version of their presence seems the more charming tale of two (pun intended), the other being of our Catholic guardian angel, where there is one such watching over each of us. But I'm thinking, there are legions of them, and why should we think of them in ones or twos? They are legion, and there to walk with us when asked.

I'm taught that when dealing with such higher beings that the call compels the answer. We need only call in prayer to get angelic answers, wherever we are.-- from Sun.Star Baguio