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Seeing Things You Can’t See

I have always been interested in things we can’t see. Gravitational waves for example can’t be seen but have now been discovered. This fascinates me and I can barely get my head round the consequences of the warping of time and space. The mystery of black holes and dark matter and the sub atomic behaviour that defies all known physical laws are like entering the world of the fevered mind of a science fiction writer. It seems as though anything we can think of can come to pass. This is hard science and I like it. I have no problem dealing with it, except in the limits of my own dull mind, when the maths and concepts go way beyond my ability. In the last few decades we have been able to “see things that can’t be seen”. Of course we can’t see them with the naked eye but they are there in reality.

The more we study the Universe, the less we know and the stranger it becomes, testing us to accept the seemingly impossible.

There are even stranger goings on in the spiritual realm that surrounds us and transcends us. We have come a long way in understanding  about God.  Enough I hope for us to understand that we don’t really know anything. That God is so far beyond us as to be unknowable except when He shares things at a level at which we understand. 

But if we are going to try to understand anything at all we have to know that there isn’t God and then us, there are angels and demons around us as well. More than we can count. They are spiritual beings without form, except when they are instructed to be visible in some form to act as messengers from God. It is beyond the scope of this book to explain all we think we know about angels and demons and all the spiritual powers that exist around us. Rather I want us to know that they exist, and that we each have a guardian angel.

I felt it important to note  it here as there is so much false information around in the cinema, television and books. You only need to have dipped a toe into the nonsense Dan Brown writes to see the how misleading it all is. I recently saw a photo doing the rounds on the internet of an angel caught in mid flight or so it was  claimed. It is of course a fragment of a cloud catching the setting sun as anyone can see.

It is important to be well enough versed in the nature of spiritual reality to be able to sort reality from dross. Angels have seeped into modern culture in a misleading way. We even now have little children dying who are going to be little angels. There is a confused pagan folk religion doing the rounds that if it weren’t so sad would be laughable. We will never be angels.

In order to get grips with it all we need to arm ourselves with knowledge, there are plenty of valuable reading materials around to set you on the right path and the Catholic Catechism is as good a place as any to start.

All I want to achieve in this brief chapter is to awaken your eyesight to learn to see truth from make believe, truth from falsehood and to encourage you to read more about the invisible realm that surrounds us. It is far far more important for our lives than gravitational waves.

Angels exist as do demons. One to help and one to harm and we need to be able to discern the difference. Evil can so often masquerade as good and that is something we need to understand and we must be on guard daily lest we fall into the traps that are set for us.

So arm yourself for the journey we are on and keep struggling to see what is really happening around us on a daily basis.

But be of good cheer trust in God completely and we can overcome all trials.