More Augury
Feb. 17th, 2023 07:57 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sdiI'm presently reading Angels at my Fingertips by Christian mystic Lorna Byrne—it's light, much easier than Plotinus, and I tend to only have a few minutes here or there right now. She talks about how angels often give gifts of feathers in unusual places to people who need hope:
I have seen angels give people feathers all of the time. It is one of the many signs that angels give us when we need hope in our life[. ...]
The angels work really hard, giving us signs, and it's not easy for them. They use the feathers of the birds of the air, so birds have to play their part too. They tend to use feathers because they are light. Angels find it easier to move minds than physical objects. I have described physical manifestations of angels in my books—knocking on doors or windows or causing winds to blow—but they are quite rare.
Most of the time when you ask for the sign of a feather you will find it in an unusual place, somewhere you are not expecting to find a feather. [...] We are just so slow, even myself at times, to recognise the signs the angels give us. We pass them by.
I had just put a bookmark in my book and got up to clean the kitchen from making breakfast. I was pondering what I had read—I see feathers often, albeit not usually in strange places, and never think of them even a little, perhaps because my parents always told me that they were dirty and that I should leave them alone or else I would get sick—and as I walked into my study in to put the book back on the shelf, what do I see but a feather sitting in the middle of the floor. How on earth did it get there? I'd just cleaned the floor yesterday, and I'd been through the study half a dozen times today already and hadn't seen it, and it's not as if our floor is littered with feathers...
I wasn't much in need of a sign, but I'm reminded of a Sufi saying, that you should "take what is voluntarily offered: it is the daily bread which God sends to you. Do not refuse God's gift!" How literal that is, today!
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