232: Unkind?
Is there a situation where it's appropriate to be unkind?
I fulfill my function.
I am my function.
My functions, rather. I am many things before the throne and away from it, because I travel now, see and take in as much I can, but my responsibilities, my, what I oversee... it's a lot of stuff.
Not that I do it all myself. I outsource to little kids from India.... oh no wait, I already told Ynez that one and she called horse-puckey on it, so never mind. Okay, I don't outsource to India. Guam, now.... There are other angels under the Name who help, and anyways time doesn't work the same way for us, we got more hours in the day than you guys got, we get everything done that needs doing is the point.
It's a big list. Birth, first off. Lots and lots and lots of births. Six billion and change, and countin', you guys runnin' around, busy busy monkeys. World revolving right round you all. But I love this part of the job, I love beginnings. I love talking to you then, in those moments before everything's all light and noise and pain.
There's messages too. Messenger, that's me. Truth be told I... don't handle this end of things so, so much, right now. Too many people not listening, message gets lost, and it's been a while since He did a one-on-one communique with a particular chosen prophet. The voice of one crying in the wilderness is out; Youtube is in. Times change. Will change again, but until then the good Lord does His speakin' in a still small voice and it's been a while since I dropped in anywhere blazing with the authority of the word of Heaven.
Revelation's kinda the same package, annunciation, they all fit into that. I got no big news to share right now. You'll know it when I do.
Mercy.... I'm doing a lot of that one. Trying to make up for lost time. For mistakes. Common conception maybe is that it comes easy to me, angel of the Lord, of course I'm a nice guy, yada yada.
No. We are not.... in our own selves... merciful creatures. We're not-- not the infants on greeting cards with the wings and the hearts. Cherubs, that's what you call 'em. Cherubs. Man, do you know what the cherubim are like, the al-kerubayim who are in the presence of G-d? Lightning and thunder in the high places, an infinitude of eyes, wings, voices. They are terrible for a man to behold.
No. We are good-- by definition-- we are just, righteous, holy-- but we.... are not kind, not as humans would understand it. Not by our nature.
If I am kind now, if I am merciful now, it is because I have learned these things from you, and every day I struggle to apply what you have taught me.
Anyway that leads nicely into the other bits of my portfolio. The ones that don't go over so well in Precious Moments cards. For I... am also set... over fire, over the vengeance of the Lord, over death.
I am still my function. I am always my function. As long as the universe requires it of me. As long as the Name requires it of me. I am the fire that was brought forth by the word of the Almighty God back at the beginning of things, and however much I have changed, however vastly I have changed, whatever it is I have learned, I exist because my purpose is to be fulfilled.
If that purpose is wrath... if the will of the Lord is that I should be a burning brand from heaven... I am so. I am so.
'Appropriate,' the question says. 'Appropriate' is not my concern.
I fulfill my function.
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gabriel * the prophecy series (movie) * word count: 630
I fulfill my function.
I am my function.
My functions, rather. I am many things before the throne and away from it, because I travel now, see and take in as much I can, but my responsibilities, my, what I oversee... it's a lot of stuff.
Not that I do it all myself. I outsource to little kids from India.... oh no wait, I already told Ynez that one and she called horse-puckey on it, so never mind. Okay, I don't outsource to India. Guam, now.... There are other angels under the Name who help, and anyways time doesn't work the same way for us, we got more hours in the day than you guys got, we get everything done that needs doing is the point.
It's a big list. Birth, first off. Lots and lots and lots of births. Six billion and change, and countin', you guys runnin' around, busy busy monkeys. World revolving right round you all. But I love this part of the job, I love beginnings. I love talking to you then, in those moments before everything's all light and noise and pain.
There's messages too. Messenger, that's me. Truth be told I... don't handle this end of things so, so much, right now. Too many people not listening, message gets lost, and it's been a while since He did a one-on-one communique with a particular chosen prophet. The voice of one crying in the wilderness is out; Youtube is in. Times change. Will change again, but until then the good Lord does His speakin' in a still small voice and it's been a while since I dropped in anywhere blazing with the authority of the word of Heaven.
Revelation's kinda the same package, annunciation, they all fit into that. I got no big news to share right now. You'll know it when I do.
Mercy.... I'm doing a lot of that one. Trying to make up for lost time. For mistakes. Common conception maybe is that it comes easy to me, angel of the Lord, of course I'm a nice guy, yada yada.
No. We are not.... in our own selves... merciful creatures. We're not-- not the infants on greeting cards with the wings and the hearts. Cherubs, that's what you call 'em. Cherubs. Man, do you know what the cherubim are like, the al-kerubayim who are in the presence of G-d? Lightning and thunder in the high places, an infinitude of eyes, wings, voices. They are terrible for a man to behold.
No. We are good-- by definition-- we are just, righteous, holy-- but we.... are not kind, not as humans would understand it. Not by our nature.
If I am kind now, if I am merciful now, it is because I have learned these things from you, and every day I struggle to apply what you have taught me.
Anyway that leads nicely into the other bits of my portfolio. The ones that don't go over so well in Precious Moments cards. For I... am also set... over fire, over the vengeance of the Lord, over death.
I am still my function. I am always my function. As long as the universe requires it of me. As long as the Name requires it of me. I am the fire that was brought forth by the word of the Almighty God back at the beginning of things, and however much I have changed, however vastly I have changed, whatever it is I have learned, I exist because my purpose is to be fulfilled.
If that purpose is wrath... if the will of the Lord is that I should be a burning brand from heaven... I am so. I am so.
'Appropriate,' the question says. 'Appropriate' is not my concern.
I fulfill my function.
______
gabriel * the prophecy series (movie) * word count: 630