While sitting at home taking a sick day today, I awoke from a cough medicine nap into one of those “crime scene investigation” shows on TV. After the crime was solved and the bad guy was sent off to jail there was a very emotional memorial service for the victim.
While the scene played out, a most interesting song played in the background that immedately caught my ear: The song is “Gabriel” and the first line is what brings me here today:
I can fly but I want his wings…
True, I can be this on-track, spiritual person, but what I Really want to be is that enlightened Master in the realm of Jesus, et al. What it seems as if I’m saying to myself is that (when I’m in this particular mood), for some reason my own brand of Spirituality just Isn’t Good Enough. And if I could be like HIM, how much better I could be!
Of course you realize there’s another side to that.
How very Boring it would be if our world (and particularly our Spiritual world!) was filled with all the same types, all the same opinions, all the same beliefs (etc) as… ourself. Isn’t the great learning and growing experience of “spiritual formation” (we used to call it church education, or Sunday School, etc) is that we get to meet others with beliefs just a slight bit away from ours? Would we not then lose the fun of no longer having to worry about “checking our brain” at the church door, because it would ALL be the same, and just the same as ours?
I like the spiritual and intellectual challenge that comes from the idea that “what I like about my insert worship practice here is that I don’t have to check my brain at the door.” I like being about to discuss, disagree, even argue in that positive manner that brings enlightenment, discernment, and growth.
Sure, when I’m in the middle of a downer day, I want to be like the arcangels instead of the angels: not so much that they probably have a much more arduous job description (ever wonder what an angel’s job description was??) but that they have the BIG wings, the COOL wings. They get to fly higher and faster and soar longer in the firmament between earth and heaven! Ah! to be able to do what I can do already, anyway, but to be able to do it with the really COOL tools!
If you’ve never heard the song Gabriel, or it’s not your cuppa, then think about the song that I thought of after this realization:
This little light of mine,
I’m gonna let it shine.
This little light of mine,
I’m gonna let it shine.
This little light of mine,
I’m gonna let it shine…
Look away, beyond, the blue.
If I have the tool already (if I can already fly) then sure, using the COOL stuff is a fun fantasy. And until I am awarded the BIG wings of the archangels, I’ll find satisfaction in flying with my little wings.
The alternative – not flying at all – pales.
Keep the faith!
- Amen
Gabriel – lyrics
i can fly
but I want his wings
i can shine even in the darkness
but I crave the light that he brings
revel in the songs that he sings
my angel gabriel
i can love
but I need his heart
i am strong even on my own
but from him I never want to part
he’s been there since the very start
my angel gabriel
my angel gabriel
bless the day he came to be
angel’s wings carried him to me
heavenly
i can fly
but I want his wings
i can shine even in the darkness
but I crave the light that he brings
revel in the songs that he sings
my angel gabriel
my angel gabriel
my angel gabriel
my angel gabriel
my angel gabriel
my angel gabriel
my angel my angel
my angel gabriel
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