July 23 2023 - I Married An Angel

 

Has anyone claimed to have married an angel?  That was a song by Richard Rogers and Lorenz Hart and a Broadway musical in 1938.  I can’t find any stories about people claiming to marry an angel.  Lots of people claim to have seen angels.   And then there is the regilion-based argument about  Genesis 6:  "The recent fantasy film Noah and a slightly related blog comment by my friend Douglas Wilson have stirred up again the question of whether the “sons of God” in Genesis 6 who married the “daughters of men” were fallen angels or the priestly line of Seth. The article goes on with a line or argument that distinguishes between angel blood and human blood.  Wouldn’t that be a sort of "angels on the head of a pin" discourse? Lots of discussion can ensue as there is no way to prove anything. In comparison, ghosts seem more tangible. My friend, Marina, knows of two stories of women who have married ghosts, and then divorced them.   Astounding to me.  It was in the Toronto Star with the headline:  "She married a ghost.  Then she divorced him via an exorcism.  Turns out that’s a trend”  -  go to the story HERE.  All the papers have picked this up as it is so compelling a headline.  Brocarde, the woman in the story, suspected her ghost husband was heating on her with Marilyn Monroe. Just like the angels on the pin - who can dispute such wonderful claims?  The next story on this topic is in the dailymail.co.uk with a point by point summary (story HERE). Amethyst Realm, 32, from Bristol, fell in love with ghost Ray on trip to Australia Spiritual guidance counsellor was planning to marry and have a baby with ghost She communicated with the spirit, called Ray, through 'energies and feelings' Ray sadly 'changed' on holiday to Thailand after falling into the 'wrong crowd'  Says ghost also have to socially distance during pandemic as they fear illness The biggest story before these was the woman who claimed she married a pirate ghost. She was Amanda Teague, and the story was covered in 2019 - even the Washington Post covered that one (the topic was “religion”).  She divorced him as well.   What is interesting is that it seems so tacky to conclude the fantasy of ghost marriage with the every day marital norms of divorce.  I’ll stick with the Marilyn Monroe cheating story.

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Nov 6 2020 - And the Countdown Continues

 

How different Christmas would be if we had to reach a specific number of prayers, monetary donations and gifts to the presenting organization. That would typically be a religious organization in the past.  In the present, it might be retail organizations.   Probably Amazon - it would be able to keep track of this.  And it makes me think of this Scrooge crossed with performance target scenario:  No Christmas for the poor - you haven't made your quotas. On our Christmas march, we are slowing inching our way towards the U.S. election results.  That's how I think of this:  we're waiting for political Christmas Day.  If we don't get to Christmas Day, we will be experiencing purgatory for another 4 years. Because there is only one scenario that results in Christmas Day.  I know this from the news this morning. This morning's New York Times inbox news tells me that "Trump lies in the White House briefing room, and the networks pull the plug"  “We have to cut away here because the president has made a number of false allegations,” Lester Holt said on “NBC Nightly News.” On ABC, the anchor David Muir broke in and told viewers, “There’s a lot to unpack here and fact-check.” MSNBC declined to air his remarks live at all. On Fox News, the White House correspondent John Roberts told viewers that “we haven’t seen any evidence” to back up Mr. Trump’s claims of electoral fraud. This is the angel in our cemetery.  She's praying with us on this one.

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Angel Voices

I always look at cemeteries in search of angel statues.  They are remarkable and very interesting to photograph.  This one was in Strassburg, PA.

My nearby cemetery has a most unusual Japanese Maple tree that is twined around a headstone.  Everything about it looks like a human form, embracing the headstone.