Angels in My Hair

I read it and it was interesting. But then you read her website and see her claims that the Earth has its own soul and so forth…so now we have to start wondering about the authenticity of the message…

In The Discarded Image, C.S. Lewis said that the medievalists believed the air to be “thick with angels”. While he was, in context, speaking in hyperbole, we do know that angels were a far greater reality to people in the Middle Ages than they are today. Which makes neither age “right”. The Church teaches that each of us has a guardian angel, assigned at baptism, I think (not sure), but the guardian is far more concerned with our soul than with our physical safety–as indeed we should be ourselves. There are stories about angels protecting the lives of their charges, but there’s no way to know if they are true. We do know from the Old Testament that countries have patrons who are angels. But the expert on the reality of angels would have to be Padre Pio and he hasn’t told us much–just enough to verify that each of us does have a guardian angel.Going to this woman’s website and reading her remarks about the “soul” of the earth, as well as some of her other remarks, I’d say she’s highly imaginative and that this imagination may have had more than a little encouragement from a publisher whom we already know as not much interested in truth and very interested in profit.

Perhaps she needs to hear Abraham Lincoln’s words: “You can please some of the people all of the time, all of the people some of the time, but not all of the people all of the time.” Or maybe her publisher is “guiding” her public relations. Too bad. She’d do better to depend on her guardian angel there.