At the Speed of an Angel

I saw a framed saying today--"Never fly faster than your angel."  Good advice.  Native Americans are said to have hiked for three days and then rested for one--so that their spirits could catch up. The Judeo-Christian practice of Sabbath observance is the same idea--to refocus your relationship to God. Regrettably, many of us fly at the speed of technology--instant everything, all knowing data--with human spirits that cannot interpret, use, let alone catch up to. The all too familiar phrase is--"There's a ghost in the machine!"  Human automatons...  The idea of flying at the speed of your angel is to seek the wholeness of the soul, of the sacred in the soul over and against the race of the world.  Do we need multi tasking or single hearted devotion to God?  It does not mean that we cease from our responsibilities.  It means we take them seriously enough to order and priortize them according to the great commandment (Love God and neighbor as self).  Madeleine L'Engle raises this question:

"What if Mary had been so full of herself 

                      that she did not have time for the angel?