The Eyes of An Angel

Laurie J. Brenner — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 13:21:34 +0000

Be not forgetful to entertain strangers: for thereby some have entertained angels unawares Hebrews 13:2

I used to see a dirty and ragged man sit at the light where I turned onto the freeway on one of the many routes I took to work back when I lived in the city for a while. I couldn’t say he was an old man, neither could I say he was young.

He had the look of another place.

It was easy to see that he was without home or without food and without the comforts that so many of us take for granted. And there he would sit and wait upon the kindness of strangers, the bare soles of his feet worn black and hard from wearing no shoes.

Many drivers would speed by him in the hopes that he hadn’t seen – that they had seen him. It was as if they acknowledged his presence, something was wrong with them, because they gave nothing. If they acted like they hadn’t seen him – they could deny he was there.

I know because I pretended that I hadn’t seen him too.

He never asked for money. He didn’t carry a sign. He just sat at this light, at this median in the road with his head bowed, heavy with thoughts unknown to any but himself.

Sometimes I would drive a different way, because I had nothing to give or I felt guilty because I was being selfish, clinging to the change for my Starbuck’s Venti Latte.

And then I couldn’t stand it any more. This man, this solitary person, this being that had the look of another place, stayed in my soul, quietly, hovering. It was if something was telling me that I must give what I could to this weary soul.

I made the decision that day to drive this route, and no matter what anyone thought, I could no longer drive by this being without giving something. I dug down deep and laid the change upon the passenger’s seat and rushed to greet him, full of myself.

He was not there.

And so, when days passed and I took that route again and again, I made sure I always had change. Sometimes I would come with my hands full of my gift, this token, this toll I would gladly pay knowing that I had made a difference.

I would reach my hand out the window and his would meet mine in mid-air. He would say thank you every so quietly and humbly and briefly look into my eyes with warm brown eyes.

He had the eyes of a child; no malice lived there.

I would continue driving feeling just a little bit lighter.

One morning, when the sun rose to greet the day, and the cars struggled like so many cattle rushing through the only gate toward pasture, I saw him again. I dug down deep and produced a handful of change and slowed to give it over to his dirty hand. And as I did so, a man behind me laid on his horn as I slowed to stop.

I threw my hand up into the eye of the rearview mirror like a mother waving at an impatient child, letting the horn-blarer know just what I thought. I put on the brakes and ignored the man behind me because he didn’t know anything else.

And I reached out to give this stranger my change.

This moment in time, this moment ongoing will be with me always. The man reached out to take my change and he looked into my eyes again.

Only where brown eyes used to be, the blue of a fresh morning sky greeted me with a look that had seen forever. And he smiled. That smile sailed through my soul like lightning and landed somewhere next to my heart.

At that moment, I knew that I had looked into the eyes of an angel.

And I’ve never seen him since.

This is a true story. I don’t make this stuff up. If I’m writing fiction, I’ll tell you straight out.

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Fear or Love-What Rules You?

Laurie J. Brenner — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 21:15:54 +0000

Elvira Amrheim's Guardian Angel-to get your own copy click on the picture!

There are really only two emotions-fear and love-and all other emotions stem from these two.

With what’s going on in the world today, wars, rumors of wars, economic downturns, starvation, the housing collapse and on and on, one could easily become frightened if one is trying to take the outside picture and try and make it fit on the inside.

If, however, you decide to live from the inside out, you realize that these things that are happening in our economy and in our world are not to be responded to with fear. You realize that love is the dominant force in the universe.

For if you only know that fear and love are opposite ends of the same stick. Which end are you holding?

You also realize that there is no switch that turns on the darkness; there is only a switch to turn on the light. Darkness is simply the absence of light.

However complicated you want to get with your own emotions is fine, but boil it down to one of these two emotions and you can begin to get a handle on your own life.

Sure, you can’t change the housing market, or affect Wall Street, but when you tap into your Source, these things don’t bother you. You soon realize that these are things that are in constant flux all the time anyway and if one were to gauge their life by them they would surely be in a state of constant fear.

Learn to connect with your Source; learn to get in touch with what rules the Universe and the creation of worlds: LOVE. It may sound trite but it’s true. Look at nature. The animals and the abundant life on, this, our earth could care less if the stock market crashes.

The money that is represented by these transactions doesn’t exist anyway. They are just numbers on a screen or on a page. There really is no such thing as money. It’s just paper that can be burned. In the United States we were taken off the gold standard years ago, so the money that is printed is only symbolic of a rate of EXCHANGE that we all agree upon.

There’s no need to get heated up about something that can be burned. Anything that can be affected like this has no real lasting value. It is not that which is seen that is real and has value, but that which is unseen that is real and has value.

What has value is what is inside of you. What values do you carry, what dreams to you hold, whom to you love, where is your worth placed? Do you love yourself? Do you understand that the Source of all things lives within you and that once you connect with that Source consciously you need never fear again?

Paul, George, John and Ringo had it right: All you need is love. Let go of the fear and embrace yourself. You are worth loving; you are worth embracing; you are a divine child of the universe and the energy that creates worlds flows through your being. Let go and let it flow!

I know how you feel, I grew up in a fear-filled home, more fear than love, but I learned to conquer my fears, I learned to open up to the love inside, the all-embracing love. If you want to find out how you can do that too, just hop on over this link. Choose to live your life from the inside out. Say yes to love. Let go of the fear.

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The Eyes of An Angel

Be not forgetful to entertain strangers: for thereby some have entertained angels unawares Hebrews 13:2

Fear or Love-What Rules You?