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Dean Powery on Discovering a Stranger is an Angel
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In his column in the (Duke) Chronicle, Chapel Dean Luke Powery remembers times he and others have been unexpectedly assisted by strangers. Citing the example of angels who came to Jesus in the desert, he writes, “Those little signposts of grace — ‘and suddenly angels came …’ — can be so brief that you miss them amid the overwhelming abundance of temptations and human struggle.”
“As the retired pastor Rev. Dr. J. Alfred Smith once preached: ‘Hope is a tiny sprout growing in cracked concrete’” Dean Powery writes. “Hope is so tiny, he is saying, that you can miss it. But I hope you have eyes to see the little sprout of grace, the flower blooming, the stranger as your angel.”