angle man with wings

When I first started read the man with enormous wings, it was a little hard for me to catch on. As I began to understand it more I saw that it was kind of magic and spiritual story. There is actually a lot of symbolism in the story. It starts off with Pelayo having a dream that he finds an old man, homeless with unusually large wings. After talking to his wife, they had the thought that the old man was an angel that came to take their sick child to heaven. They keep the old man in a chicken coop and find that the old man with wings is drawing in a crowd. Soon there were so many people that came for healings and what not, that the wife began to charge people for admission. Its interesting how the angel was so beat up and unattractive, yet so many people still flocked to him. The spiritual signifcance I see in this is Isaiah 53 when Isaish prophesies over the suffering servant. “ one of things it talks about in that chapter is how the suffering servant was not attractive to many. Then when we jump to the new testament, large crowds are constantly surrounding Jesus, not for his looks but for his miraculous healing power. People flock this “angel” partly on faith but also to see him perform miracles. Once they hear the story about the spider woman, the people devote their attention to the spider woman. Although the story is not less strange, the dirty old man who is supposedly an angel cannot match the appeal of a spider woman. I think a lot of our lives look that way. When we experience something that is satisfying, we tend to give our attention to that thing, whatever it may be. But like how the people lost interest in the old man, we lose interest in once we see something that looks better. When jesus walked earth, people were amazed by is healings and miracles but as soon as jesus started being real with people and telling them the way to live, they quickly lost interest and left. My thoughts are kind of jumbled but that’s what it made me think when I read this.