The overwhelm angel

I have a tendency to think that angels are all love and light, but humans aren't, so why should angels be?  Ok, so that's a rhetorical question! 

The point is this: we humans can be stubborn.  If we weren't, we would learn life's lessons with the lightest of touches, with grace and ease, moving on before a situation implodes around our ears.  We don't.  Some of us even thrive on the drama of chaos.

So angels of redundancy and overwhelm may not be actual angels, but metaphors for the human condition and not necessarily something to be feared. 

Human beings, from my personal experience, by and large, tend to like the comfort of the familiar.  We are loathe to change, even when it's for our own highest good.  Enter the Overwhelm Angel: this angel visits us when we are too cosy within our own mess. 

The Overwhelm Angel is an angel of great kindness, compassion and non-judgement.  She invites us to upgrade our lives, to move into a new room in the mansion of life, so to speak.

This angel removes the dark glasses we were wearing, the blinkers that allowed us to avoid seeing our reality for what it is: an inadequate reflection of who we are.  This angel invites us to step up to life and sort the treasures from the rubble in our daily life. 

It's useful to remember the kindness of this angel, because when we feel overwhelmed we have a tendency to add large dollops of shame, anger and resentment to the mixture.  It's not necessary. 

Bringing kindness to every aspect of the human condition is a spiritual practice in itself, a healing practice of global consequence, for we are never the small time actors we imagine, we are powerful, we are angels, we are the divine... and we're slowly remembering that truth. 

From the ashes of overwhelm, come the gifts of this angel, insight, clarity and compassion.