Tuesday, April 21, 2009
Guardian Angel?
I was looking through some pictures the other day when I came upon one that I've seen about a hundred times. It is one of Andrew and myself at his military ball this year. We are all dressed up and standing outside at a railing. I am not a fan of this picture, because I think that I look absolutely terrible, so my eyes focus on him - studying everything about him. And then I notice a strange flaw in the picture. A dim outline coming up from behind Andrew's shoulder and gently curving and then sloping downward. It might be a trick of the light or a defect in the camera. All I know is that it looks like the outline of a wing. A relaxed wing. The kind of wing you see attached to the back of an angel. How peculiar. I browse through some more pictures and find one of us in front of a statue. It is nighttime and there is wind and rain and a big, odd orange glow just above our heads. Strangely enough in the shape of a wing. Admittedly, there is a light fixture on a building somewhere in the background that contributed to this strange apparition, but it still does not stop me from wondering about the coincidental position of wing-like things in two separate photographs taken with two separate cameras in two separate locations. To top it all off, I am remembering a story Andrew told me about an encounter he had with an angel in his bedroom when he was very young. Could this be the same angel? Could this angel be following Andrew? Protecting him? Keeping him safe? My heart wants desperately to believe this. I hope it is so. It gives me happiness just thinking about it.
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