Alex's House Of Angels (part 1)

52 Stories in 52 Weeks: ## 28 Alex’s House Of Angels

By: Mr. George D. Patnoe., Jr.'s Ambidextrous Brain + Spiritual Mind.

The house laid empty. Only brand new paint laid on the walls and ceiling, along with a brand new white carpet which was laid on the wood floor. The house was empted of everything except a hope for a new owner. Like many houses all over the world, but especially in America, where house owners are free to decorate their houses in anyway they wanted, the house waited for a special owner who would decorate it with a sense of life, like no other house in the world. There are many home decorating magazines that would have painted Alex’s house with the brightest colors and the best furniture that only the rich could afford for their empty houses. Can a million dollar house have any sense of personally just because it is worth a million dollars, or can expensive furniture bring a sense of real life to a house? Alex had lived in many houses over the years and now he wanted a new home.

In Alex’s pre-house of angels, Alex needed a print to fill in the space between the Last Supper painting and a picture of the planet earth which was taken in outer space. So just for the fun of it, Alex looked up at the empty space in his apartment and he thought to himself, ‘What would happen if a poster or print supernaturally popped into my life, instead of me personally searching for it?’ So he waited and as sure as the sun rises over the earth, an angel print appeared for Alex to hang on his apartment wall. Alex was guided to Raphael’s Sistine’s Madonna’s two wondering cherubs.

Once the two wondering cherubs were hung on the wall, between the Last Supper painting and the earth’s floating sphere; it seemed as if a special bond had been created by the realms of angels between heaven and earth. Alex began to wonder about the connection between the realms of the angels and that of mere mortal mankind, on planet earth. You know the ones, the questioning humanoids who were always looking up towards the sky, looking for answers from God and from the angels, because somehow they knew that there is more to life than what is before their eyes. But the same mere mortal mankind that would die of a heart attack if a realm of angels suddenly appeared before their eyes. What would they do?

Once Raphael’s angel print was hung on the wall, to look at him in his eyes, he felt something strange was happening to him; as if a connection had been made between him and another realm. Although he could not explain what was transpiring in his life, a new life awaited Alex; a life away from spiritual and metaphysical books; a life of the spirit. Alex was forced into a house, mainly because he had to many intellectual hobbies, reading, writing, drawing, violin, chess, and of course, the supernatural. Once a person enters the supernatural realm, a person needs more privacy for internal and external discovery. Moreover, Alex wanted to settle down because his mind was moving faster than his body. Alex had learned that moving the body around like a wild animal in the jungle or a flying insect in the air is not what advanced humans were meant to do or even to live for. A still body allowed the mind to stay still enough to travel beyond the mind, even as the body slowly walks on earth. Mentally and spiritually advance humans were meant to develop their minds to the highest of heights of understanding and of consciousness.

On the other hand, Alex had seen so many people settled down in their houses, only to move their minds and bodies into human trouble, as if they had not learned how to become thinking humans and divine like creatures, instead of wandering animals, like the wild animals that are waiting to hunt for their next meal and to have sex and then to die. Alex felt that humans were supposed to overcome their animal instincts for true spiritual development. Of course, the human animal mind would disagree with that statement, but no human animal-ness had ever helped humans develop into a more stable civilianization. Human animal-ness only created more wars instead of heavenly peace on earth.

As he walked into the empty house on Saturday night at 5pm, he laughed at the concept of buying the house. But after he thought about the house’s layout and other aspects of the house, he laughed no more. Less than twenty four hours later, he owned the house, after he won the bid from eleven other bidders. It was like winning the lotto, only with a mission. A month later, Alex had moved into the house. Alex looked at the newly painted white and cream walls, plain as they were to any eye. Alex wondered what he was going to put on the walls. Moreover, Alex remembered how he received the Raphael angel print, so he waited for a grand idea for the house’s walls and its new attitude.

In an unrelated and an unexpected adventure, Alex needed to go to Las Vegas. As he walked around the Las Vegas casinos, he saw all of the different themes of the casinos. Each casino had its own fantasy-land theme. Alex began to wonder about what kind of theme he would want in his casino; if he indeed did own a casino. Then, Alex realized that he would never own a casino, but he wondered if a house could have a theme. Sure it could! As he answered his own question. He had recalled other houses with themes because their owners had very specific hobbies; and those hobbies would created an atmosphere or an aura inside the house. Like if a guy loved a specific football or baseball team, he might have that team’s players pictures hanging on the wall, and he might own the team coats and coffee mugs and maybe even a team rug and team lamp or two, along with a rug with the team’s insignia on it. He might even have the team’s insignia on his car’s windows.

Alex began to wonder, ‘What would happen if I created an angel theme for the house?’ A house with a heavenly angel theme instead of some earthly theme. Alex had never read about a house with an official angel theme, so he decided to be the first person to create a House of Angels. He did not know where to begin, so he felt that he would first plan by not planning at all. He would let the whole decorating adventure unfold by him shopping around for a certain class of angelic merchandise in the stores. After all, if he was watched over by and guided by angels from other dimensions, he reasoned that he would be guided to purchase all of the angel items for his angel theme house. But there were so many rooms to fill, so it seemed natural to start with the main living room or the television room.

Since the television was located up against a wall, but in the middle of the wall, there was plenty of room on both sides of the television to put angel prints or posters or pictures on the walls, along with other items either on the floor or the wall. Alex took great care to listen when he entered a store to browse for items for his house of angels. In his early search, Alex had found a medium size close up of Michaelangelo’s Creation of Adam’s hand of "God" touching the hand of ‘Man.’ It was cheap too. Alex bought the Creation of Adam to hang up on the left side of the wall of the television set. But Alex knew how the old human concept of God of a god up there in the stars somewhere had changed to a multi-dimensional concept of a God that could be anywhere and everywhere simultaneously. But Alex knew that mere humans did not want to understand a God who is perfect but who also destroys imperfect concepts of God. God reveals God, to all minds who are open to a multi-dimensional understanding of God. Believing that Jesus is God is foolish. "God is incorporeal, divine, supreme, infinite Mind, Spirit, Soul, Principle, Life, Truth, Love.' *

Every framed print or poster or painting that had to be hung up on the wall in the proper manner. First, Alex would have to find the stud finder so he could find the wood stud to put the nail through the hook and then into the wall’s stud. Alex wanted to absolutely know that once the prints and other angelic items were hung on the wall, that they would not be knocked off the wall by winds or an earthquake or by someone bumping into them. So Alex had made a trip to a hardware store to find all of the different wall hooks for prints and posters and paintings and other wall hangings. There were hooks for 5, 10, 15, 20, and 50 pound framed pictures of one sort or another. Alex always used a stronger hook for each job because if he was caught in an earthquake with winds that knocked him into the framed pictures, it would be better to have the stronger hooks to protect the wall hangings from falling to the floor.

The next time Alex went window shopping for angel stuff, he noticed shelves of angel statues, but there were so many different forms and designs of angel statues to choose from. There were small ones and medium ones and even large ones. There were light and heavy ones. There were angel statues for the house and for the garden. There were angle statues made from plastic and ones made from steel. There were white and black and different shades of gray angel statues.

There were even gold angel statues. Some angel statues were playing music instruments; like flutes and violins and horns and the harp. Other angel statues were either kneeling or standing with their hands in the prayer position, while other angels were holding babies or birds or other creatures of planet earth. And then there were those standing angel statutes were holding candles stands for the very wide candles. There were also the cute versus the very serious angel statues to choose from. Alex had guessed that the cute angel statues were for babies and little children who were still innocent of the hard and sometimes dangerous ways of the world. Maybe the more serious angel statues were for the people who had either lost their innocence or had grown into the more serious nature of true manhood and true human-hood.

Alex’s first angel statues were medium size kneeling praying statues. One was a male and the other a female. He put them on a dark wooden table under The Creation of Adam print. He then put a red light in the middle of them, so they would be lit up at night, all night long. After shopping for years, Alex had collect all of the above mentioned angel statues, for one room or another, along with many kind of angel prints and posters and paintings too. Along with many signs too.

Alex had reasoned that if the angel statues could speak, they would talk to humans with messages of Infinite Possibilities; infinite possibilities to humans, from God and the angels. Alex felt that the humans who walked into his house might need such simple messages of hope and of life. Alex also felt that when people exited the angel house, with the angelic messages, that maybe they would not forget the messages or the possibilities of angels helping them with their lives.

Some of the messages that hung on the house of angel’s walls were: Never, Never, Never Give Up! Tomorrow’s another day. Count Your Blessings. Life’s a Journey - Enjoy It! Love is Life’s Greatest Joy. It’s a Wonderful Life. Give Thanks. Life is Good.

Alex had his favorite angle symbol. It is taken from Raphael’s Sistine’s Madonna and child, with the two wondering cherubs. They are normally shown alone, but they are part of larger oil painting with Jesus being held by his mother and along with two people on the side of them. The wondering cherubs are underneath the four individuals who are obviously guided by the divine intelligent plan. What are those two wondering cherubs wondering about? Are they wondering about the future life of Jesus or of life in general. Alex like them for two reasons, the first being that humans were meant to be wonderers about God and angels, and other dimensions, and even human life. Alex thought that maybe they were not wondering at all. Maybe they were just listening and watching the scene of a mother holding her baby, the baby who would change the course of human history until the end of time.

So the two cherubs were all over the angel house. They were on: pillows, and bedspreads, and even the table cloth runner and cover. The were on lamps and candle holders. At least one of them, usually larger one, was in a clock in each room. There were even window shades for the car, so wherever Alex traveled, Alex would not forget what the real story of life is. There was at least one picture of the wondering cherubs in each room, along with other angelic reminders that every room was a welcome place for angels, but they were reminders for Alex to never forget about the spiritual universe all around him. Of course, Alex knew that most humans saw the universe as a solid mass of ‘stuff’, but that was only because they perceived the universe with their limited minds. If they had perceived the universe with the Mind of God, they would see a completely different universe.

Alex also started to decorate his backyard with angel statues too. Around his pond, there are plants and bushes and birdbaths, but now there are tall and short angel statues too. Against the red fence, the white tall statues stood tall, while the shorter angel statues stood tall in front of the tall statues. All around the fence, angel statues of one form or another stood, seemingly to guard the yard from invaders, but also give a special presence to the yard. Alex knew that in the very hot desert summer sun, animals from all directions visited his pond to take a slip of water. Unlike the other yards whose owners cared little for earth sometimes helpless creatures, Alex care for the creatures who needed water to survive in the summertime. Birds, cats, racoons, possums, and other creatures visited the pond for water and the occasional leftover food stuffs that Alex would leave out for the cats and possums. He would also leave out bread and rice and sometimes fruit like apples for the birds. To all of these earthly creatures, they knew it was an angelic backyard, statues or not.

After all the backyard was finished, Alex decided to make a somewhat giant step forward in his angel theme house and yard. Alex had lived in the neighborhood for a few years now, and he never put an angel statue in the front yard because it just never occurred to him to do it. He was just to busy decorating the house’s interior and the backyard. But the moment arrived when he saw a brownish angel statue in a store and he knew exactly where it would be placed. He had never seen any thing like it, so knew that it would fit perfect in a corner of his front yard porch. It was a decisive moment of no return. Alex knew that once he put even one angel statue on his front porch, everything might change with his neighbors, but that was not important to him.

After Alex had put the brownish praying statue on his front porch, he put a few smaller one there too. Soon, word had spread around the street, as words always spread around street, that Alex had put angel statues on his front porch. Alex could hear their whispers, along with the changes in people’s behavior and demeanor as they either drove up or walked up his house. Some people now avoided him, while other people stopped to look at the angel statues. He could only guess their questioning minds. ‘Did he become religious?’ ‘What is his problem?’ ‘Is he going to start preaching to us?’ ‘When did all that happen?’ ‘Is he a nut job?’ ‘Maybe he knows something we do not know.’ ‘Who does he think he is? Does he think he is better than us?’ ‘Is he smarter than us?’ ‘What church does he belong to?’ ‘Maybe we should ask him what he knows.’

But Alex knew one for sure. Which each every new angel statue or print that he bought and put in his house or yard, he experienced a deeper and deeper connection between the filled up space between heaven and earth. Alex understood that real angels do not have featherly wings and he realized that the symbols of angel statues and angelic prints only inform the other creatures of other realms that a human named Alex was ready to connect to those realms between the heavens and earth. Alex had so many stories to tell that he started writing a few of them down for people to read. Even with all of the modern day technologies available to connect people to each other people, Alex felt that every single person should learn more about their connections to God and the angels.

* Question. - "What is God?'
Answer. - " God is incorporeal, divine, supreme, infinite Mind, Spirit, Soul, Principle, Life, Truth, Love." pg. 465 from Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures. By Mary Baker Eddy.