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My Angel Story

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Did you know that although most angel images are female, angels seem to manifest as genderless or male? This is my own story, or at least the beginning of it.  Janet K. Smith, Ph.D. It was the end of spring semester at the U. of Washington. I was a flaky, insecure 20-year-old art student with an unimpressive GPA who had acquired a summer job in the cafeteria of the Safeco Insurance building. In spite of my Catholic upbringing, I was an agnostic who was actively searching for God. During the previous semester I had taken World History, and one of the requirements was to read "The Sermon on the Mount," three chapters in the book of Matthew. It rocked my world. If there is anything to Christianity, I thought, this is how it should be.  From my Catholic education, I knew the story of St. Augustine, how he heard a child's voice one day saying, "Take up and read. Take up and read." A book was sitting next to him, so he picked it up and read Romans 13:13, admonishing h