Guardian Angel

Demoted! I can’t believe it. I was on my way to Dominion, the top tier in the Second Triad of the Heavens, and one small incident and now I’m busted back to angel. Not even an archangel, just your garden variety angel who is constantly interfering in the affairs of humans. What’s next, I have to be some earthling’s guardian.


So, here’s what happened. The other Virtues and I were doing our thing and exerting our power over the natural order. Assisting with seasonal changes, keeping planets in their orbits and moons circling the planets, nothing complicated, just the usual. It’s not like we were creating a new element or giving Saturn a few more moons or anything. Anyway, they had me doing planets that day. Usually I was on season duty but things were slow this year. With global warming on Earth the change of seasons wasn’t as easy as it used to be. We tried to bring Winter to the northern hemisphere around what earthlings call December but to celestial beings it is the Far Point for Earth or FPE. It just wasn’t working. We were able to get a three day cold snap going but then the Earth took on a mind of its own and even celestial interference couldn’t change it. Actually, I may have gone a little too far with that cold snap. I ended up freezing an entire continent and a few of the more northern spots were slammed with six feet of snow. 


So, I’m now I’m on planets and we’re having a slow day, no comets and the solar storms were pretty quiet as well. Someone, I don’t remember who, had an idea to bowl using some of the moons in the outer planets of the Milky Way Galaxy (that’s the Earth name). Next thing you know, I’m up and I take Pluto’s only moon and it goes flying off into the chaos and lands smack in a black hole. You’d think celestial beings are all powerful, but we’re not and, unfortunately, the Supreme Being isn’t always around to fix everything that happens in the heavens. So you get little glitches on Earth. The Grand Canyon is one of the mess ups — that wasn’t us, that was the Powers. Anyway, there was no getting that moon back and no time to create another moon which takes millennia anyway.


And the next thing you know Pluto is downgraded to a dwarf planet and I’m downgraded to Guardian Angel.


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