Painting Revelation Blog

The other morning I opened the French doors in my bedroom and saw something stuck to the screen. A stick? No, a walking stick. Sometimes called Phasmida from the Greek word for apparition or phantom. These odd insects are found all over the world. Some look like leaves, some like sticks. They can grow to 20” long. A Google article says they make good pets but I deposited mine under a bush in some ivy after I was done taking photos.

Walking Stick

How many of these phantoms pass through our day? Hebrews 13:2 says that we should entertain strangers because we might be entertaining angels unaware. Jesus said we can’t enter the kingdom of heaven unless we become like toddlers. I don’t think he was talking about the future, but about now, today, right where we are. Tuning our senses into the present, the burrr of a hummingbird’s wings, the hard marble of an acorn under our shoe, the gleam of copper from a red-headed father and son, the lonely eyes of an immigrant worker we pass on the street. What treasures are hidden right before our eyes?

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