I am a sucker for old television shows, ironically, as I become older. I never thought I would sit down and become obsessed with Gunsmoke or Bonanza but here we are. There is a channel called ME TV that runs all of those vintage shows and I stay on that channel about eighty percent of the time when I am home.
Now that I have run through those aforementioned shows, my new addiction is Highway to Heaven. Ran in the mid 80’s for about five seasons and it stars Michael Landon has an angel on earth to help people in rough spots or to enlighten those who need to be taught a lesson in humility. It is a simple show yet it is so powerful in many ways. I watched it the first time around nearly forty years ago but this time, the show hits differently, as it should.
One day I got to thinking—-Do all of us have a guardian angel? The more I thought about it, this conclusion hit me, I believe we do. Our faith is infinite and why not hope that we have someone who walks with us and cares for us beyond our wildest imagination.
My next thought was to immediately issue an apology to my guardian angel. We all have free will so that means we make a lot of mistakes. A lot of mistakes and boy, have I made my fair share. How many eye rolls has my angel given? How many times has my angel screamed, “No, no, no!” Then this realization—How many times have I put my guardian angel in therapy? Five or six times? Maybe more?
Yes, it is all tongue in cheek and it is fun to imagine that our guardian angel has protected us from trouble we have never even imagined. He probably has the same reaction to us as we do when we see a bird or squirrel in the middle of the road–“Move, Move, Please move out of the way. Move!” Yeah, let me up that therapy session to be about ten times now.
In Matthew 18:10, it says that God’s Angels are involved in the lives of believers, offering guidance, protection and support. How valuable are those three things in our lives and in our journey? It is nice to believe that there is someone doing that with us and for us, instead of believing that we are just all alone on some big rock in space. Perhaps that angel is a friend of ours who does just that to us and maybe we have never ever realized it.
So buckle up guardian angel, we have a lot more life to live and fun to have and lives to change. I will wait until you get out of this most recent therapy before we proceed.
