Opposite Worlds
This is surely unremarkable and obvious, but why have a blog if you can't state the obvious?
Is it not amazing how different our role as humans in the material plane is compared to our position in the spiritual plane? On earth we stand atop the food chain, and, despite the tsunami, have exercised remarkable control over nature.
But in the spiritual realm we are pikelings, spiritually retarded. St. Thomas has nine orders of angels and tells us the lowest order is assigned the guardian role for humans. Yet the fact that our fragility is so understood is a sign of solicitude of heaven - God came down to become man, not angel; he came to redeem us because angels, being pure intellect, have less excuse. We have the baggage of the material but also the capability of transformation, of progress, which angels lack. Having a guardian angel is simultaneously a testament to our weakness and to God's love and care.
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