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| The Angels with Dirty Faces | |
| By Josie | ||||||||||||||||
| 01 December 2007 | ||||||||||||||||
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THE ANGELS WITH DIRTY FACES
By Josie
Scene I – A Bradford Street
First Person: “So, these angels with the dirty faces as you call them. Where do they live? Are they really angels? They can’t be. Angels wear white and have wings and what-you-call-thems round their heads!” Second Person: “Come, I’ll take you to meet them.” First Person: “Get along with you, stop pulling my leg. You can’t really see angels. They’re only in the minds of silly people. Come on now. Get real.” Second Person: “Be prepared for a shock. They are right here in the centre of Bradford. They’re working angels.” First Person: “In the middle of Bradford? Working? Ha!!! Angels are surely purer than pure and they float round in Heaven don’t they doing nothing but fly and sing? Whatever sort of angel would come to BRADFORD of all places? Oh, well, go on then, if you’re sure. I’ll come, just for the laugh, but we must surely find them at the cathedral?” Second Person: “Well, not quite, but they are to be found in the Crypt of St George’s Church, and be prepared for a surprise. It says in the Bible that we must “be not forgetful to entertain strangers, for thereby some have entertained angels unaware.” (Hebrews 13:2). Also, Jesus was most likely to be found with the down and outs, the prostitutes and the outcasts of society, not with the rich. He blessed the poor in heart and said that a rich man was about as likely to get into Heaven as a camel could get through the eye of a needle. So it makes sense that His angels will be here with those sorts of people." First Person: “But I would never have imagined that angels would want to associate with the down and outs, the drug addicts, the people who have got themselves into a mess in life because they can’t leave drink alone would they? Surely they have other things to do in Heaven haven’t they?
Second Person: “You can find angels working on this earth if you have eyes to see them.”
Scene II – St George’s Crypt, Bradford
Second Person “Here we are. I told you we’d get a warm welcome here. Now, here's a face I recognize. This is Brian, one of the angels with dirty faces. Come on Brian, tell us your story. How did you become an angel?"
Brian “I wouldn’t exactly describe myself as an angel, but I do my best because I want to help others in the way that I was helped. My word, was I down - so down I thought I’d never get up again. My problem was drink. I started at the age of 17 and how I wish I hadn’t. I realized I wanted to drink more than anybody else. Just thought it was “big” and I wanted to be one of the boys. What a fool! I lost everything in life – my home, my job, everything. “ First Person “So what happened?” Brian “You can’t stop drinking overnight. No, no. You get this dreadful craving. I only had to pass a pub and smell beer and I’d be off again. I was told by someone on the street that I could get a meal here and perhaps a bed, and I thought ‘Well it must be better than this cold wet street. ‘ I felt like a social outcast I can tell you, but nobody here made me feel like that. I was met with open arms and that’s the truth of it. But you’ll meet a rum lot here and that’s for certain: assylum seekers, down and outs, drug addicts, drinkers like I was, schizophrenics – you just name it. All here.”
Brian “Oh, no doubt about it, it was when I became a Christian. I suddenly realized that someone loved me, despite all my faults. Of course, I still was tempted to the drink at first. Pass a pub, and I couldn’t resist it, but I’ve fought a long hard battle to be here today. Now I can happily go into a nice country pub and order a lemonade.” ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Brian is one of many many people that St George’s Crypt have helped, and this weekend, we, at our church will take shoeboxes filled with food: sugar; lentils; dried beans, rice and anything else that we can spare, to feed people like Brian who have hit rock bottom in life. It’s easy to think it could never happen to you, but it could. Down and outs often start at the top before they hit the bottom. Yes, this is where the angels work and this is a Christian church putting Christ’s teachings into the world in which we live. Whilst you are sitting with the family, in the warmth of your living room this Christmas, well fed and loved, please remember Brian and his friends in Bradford, and the angels who are giving up their time to be with them. Please see my article on the non fiction side of the website soon.
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