Messengers,part II: Looking for Us

I have come to believe that angels, or messengers from more refined realms, are out ‘looking’ for us--seeking to point us toward a heavenly home world, or at least to a more heavenly consciousness on earth. I have reached this conclusion from my own personal experiences as well as years of listening to people nearing death recounting interactions and communications with angels or higher beings. In most of these 'nearing death' experiences, higher beings offer to help human beings find their way back to the spirit world.

If we assume that messengers of Heaven are out looking for us, we may then return to the question of why it seems somewhat rare that these meetings take place (except for nearing death experiences). I suggested earlier that one reason the angels don’t ‘find us’ very often is our state of consciousness---we are too absorbed in earthly affairs, our 'line is busy’ talking about the things of the world so that heavenly callers can’t get through to us.

A metaphor may help us understand why these human-angel interactions are rare. Suppose a rebellious teenager leaves home. Perhaps she leaves Kansas and hitchhikes out to California to become a movie star. If that young woman wants to stay ‘lost’ from her parents and friends, there are ways that she can do it. She will not call or answer calls. She will not give an address or a location. She will become absorbed in California living and try hard to forget her life in Kansas. She wants to be free, independent, ‘on her own.’

Perhaps her parents could find her, but they know that she will only run away again. She is using her free will to remain lost. They hope that she’ll return home when her days of California dreamin’ have faded. One day she will see Hollywood for what it is, and return home to the ones who love her---to her family.

The Biblical story of the Prodigal Son tells a similar tale of a son who left his kind and loving father to ‘sow his wild oats.’ He eventually tires of his shallow life. He 'hits bottom' and returns home of his free will. The 'lost son' is immediately embraced by his joy-filled father.

These stories are appropriate metaphors for we who find ourselves having wandered from our home world of spirit, currently moving here and there within space and time, birthing and dying within the material universe.

There seem to be at least two types of souls who remain ‘lost’ from the spirit world: (1) those who are outright rebellious, embracing this world as their one and only home, and (2) those who feel orphaned, abandoned or unworthy, not believing that they have a higher home. Both souls have a form of spiritual amnesia, having forgotten their transcendent identity, temporarily thinking themselves to be only physical beings of the earth, rather than magnificent spiritual beings on a journey away from home.

So, here we are. Angels of God are out looking for us, ready to offer help to improve our lives here and guide us toward our home of perfect peace and joy at life’s end. The question is: do we want to be found?