A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings

The beginning of this story there is a man and wife whose child gets completely sick and they find this man in the field that turns out during the story is said to be an "angel." I like the part of this where it states, "He reminded them that the devil had the bad habit of making use of carnival tricks in order to confuse the unwary." How deep. You can see that in every day life, Satan gets ahold of us in trickery ways where he end up getting us to fall to his level. Then making it that much more challenging to come out of the dark hall in which you have fallen.

I was confused at points in this reading, thinking is this man really an angel? Or have the people just made this fabrication and made themselves believe he is. Maybe he is just a regular man who happened to be there when the child became sick. The whole entire town treats him and helps him as if this man is an angel, but I am still lost to know if he really is. The "angel" does not say much so I have speculation as the story continues.

However it does state that he has wings, but what is ironic is in the text it states, "or maybe he was just a Norwegian with wings." It is as though they contemplate the same thing that I do.

It seems strange that there would be such thing as an old angel unable to fly and do these things in which he needed to. The angel finally is able to go back out to flight, and I liked the ending to this story how it said,"he was no longer an annoyance in her life but an imaginary dot on the horizon of the sea." The angel was gone for good, and no longer would she have to fool with it.

This story made me think a lot about angels and about life. I recall when I was younger watching the show Touched By an Angel, and the angels not having wings in that program, they were people just like you and me. That angels could be right here among us doing deeds and helping us and we not even know it. But of course if we saw someone with large wings we would immediately assume they were not of human decent but possibly an angel.

I just could think of angels in numerous different ways. An angel could be your friend, your mother, someone there... that guiding source in your life. Or a real angel, sent from God. However we are all sent from God. It is a lot to think about, and comprehend.