“Entertaining Angels Unaware” is one of my favorite songs by
Erik Johansson, a Vermonter and part time Texan who restores pipe organs and
through his music and prayer the human heart as well, including my own I might
add. It was always my first request in the past when he would unpack his hand made harp, followed
closely by my second request for a whimsical, sweet song about fishing with a
child. They might be the same thing for when the human heart is healed by
hospitality the angels are entertained and in our restoration they rejoice. The
hospitable life of Hebrews is found in mutual love expressed by loving the
stranger, which is the literal meaning of the Greek. It means we remember those
in prison as if we were in their place. It is for one’s own being to be
tortured by the thought of another’s body violated, as well as grieving for the
spirit and soul and mind of the one who devises and inflicts pain upon another.
Honoring marriage, resisting the lure of wealth, contentment within one’s self,
being thankful for faithful leaders, doing good and sharing what you have are
all expressions of the hospitable life in which the angels rejoice and God is
pleased. So entertaining angels unaware is not a chance encounter with a cherub
but a life encountered and changed by Jesus, the same yesterday, today and
always.
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