Entertaining Unawares

Entertaining Angels Unawares
Genesis 18: 1-15

One of my friends thinks she may once have met an angel. She was driving to work along a stretch of road surrounded by open land in a well-to-do part of the Los Angeles area, and she passed someone who looked rather like a homeless man, walking his bicycle. It was not a place where she regularly saw bicycles, and it was not clear what the man would be doing there and why he would be walking. She felt compelled to turn back and (against her usual principle) to give him some money. When he looked at her through the driver’s window “his eyes were radiant—glowing, almost,” she said. “As I drove on to work I said to myself, ‘That was an angel.’ And I felt a bit shaken up.”...