Man with Enormous wings

I just love how Professor Corrigan makes us read all of these stories that make you end with saying “what???!” or feeling like you missed something BIG...not!

First off, the story is subtitles A Tale for Children; this implied to me that there was some kind of moral to the story.  I couldn’t find one, but maybe a child’s mind is simpler than ours and can figure it out.

The whole time I was reading this story I was trying to piece together information to try to figure out what was going on.  I thought that at the end there would be one great line that would make me understand the whole point to this story.  I don’t really know if my interpretation is correct, but this story made me think of how we view God and his works in our lives. 

We expect all of these things out of God and expect him to appear the way we want him to, and when he doesn’t we are disappointed.  The line that stuck out to me the most was when the author was talking about people who came in search of a cure.  “a poor woman who since childhood had been counting her heartbeats and had run out of numbers, a Portuguese man who couldn’t sleep because the noise of the stars disturbed him, a sleepwalker who got up at night to undo the things he had done while he was awake…”  All of these things they came for were ridiculous.  People are looking for God, or in this case the angel, to heal problems that would be fixed on their own or that aren’t even ailments to begin with.  This made me think of how people claim that Paul “lost his power to heal people,” when what he did was tell them the obvious, not to drink the water because it was making them sick instead of performing some miracle.  Sometimes people equivalate the workings of God to that of a carnival, and when that happens he WONT move.

This story has so many truths about what some do with God.  Use him as a show, make money, put him down when he doesn’t do what we want him to or meet OUR expectations of him. 

I still don’t fully understand the story, but it left me thinking “what do you do with God when he comes to you?”