entertaining angels

there is a quiet invitation woven through scripture

that we often turn outward, but rarely inward:

“do not forget to show hospitality to strangers,

for by so doing some people have shown hospitality

to angels without knowing it.”

Hebrews 13:2

we hear this and think about how we welcome others:

how we open the door,

how we make space...

but what if the stranger is also you?

what if the one waiting to be received with tenderness,

is our own soul

Gautama Buddha spoke of meeting ourselves with compassion...

not fixing, not forcing... just being with what is here

Prophet Muhammad reminded us that

how we tend what is entrusted to us matters...

what has been entrusted to us more intimately than our own being???

still...

we offer others warmth

and meet ourselves with pressure

we try to grow by pushing

to become by striving

to feel worthy by earning it

but what if we became a place we could rest?

what if we created, within ourselves,

the kind of space we so freely give a space where we are

not rushed

not judged

not required to prove anything

if you believed an angel might walk through your door today

would you speak gently?

would you honor them?

so why not with ourselves???

this is not about denying pain

there is a way of living that feels like allowing...

like thriving instead of striving

it begins quietly

showing up

listening

returning again and again to Creator

not to perform

but to connect

to trust timing

to receive Wisdom

we are not meant to chase Becoming

only to welcome it

so let's open the door

soften our voice

and stay

we might just be entertaining an angel

me | Blithewold Mansion | 2026