This is an audio file I recorded over a year ago. I just found it on my desktop. It's just me reading a post titled Angel at the Grocery Store. It's under 4 minutes long, and it was the third thing I posted on this blog, and it one of the most heart-warming synchronicities I've ever experienced.
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About that Mexican cashier in the story. She said nothing at all, to me or to the customers ahead of me in the line. She simply smiled and pantomimed everything.
In this essay I said that the Mexican cashier was pretty. Well, let me clarify that. You know who she looked like?
If you were doing a movie about the birth of Christ, and you needed to cast a beautiful young woman to play the role of the Virgin Mary, this girl would be who you would hire. Yes, she looked like the incarnation of Mary, mother of Jesus.
It is as if I had come face to face with an archetype of a mystical kind of purity and sweetness. This silent cashier was the embodiment of a subtle kind of perfect beauty. I had never seen anyone that radiated something so kind and calm—except this silent cashier. The Blessed Virgin/Angel/Cashier I saw looked very much like the actress Catalina Sandino Moreno. The girl I saw was barely 20.
In this essay I said that the Mexican cashier was pretty. Well, let me clarify that. You know who she looked like?
If you were doing a movie about the birth of Christ, and you needed to cast a beautiful young woman to play the role of the Virgin Mary, this girl would be who you would hire. Yes, she looked like the incarnation of Mary, mother of Jesus.
It is as if I had come face to face with an archetype of a mystical kind of purity and sweetness. This silent cashier was the embodiment of a subtle kind of perfect beauty. I had never seen anyone that radiated something so kind and calm—except this silent cashier. The Blessed Virgin/Angel/Cashier I saw looked very much like the actress Catalina Sandino Moreno. The girl I saw was barely 20.
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| Catalina Sandino Moreno |
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6 comments:
What an amazing story. Thanks so much for sharing this!
Thanks for this, Mike.
You know... it's probably stupid of me to mention this, but... My mom's name is María de los Angeles (Mary of the Angels), my father's name is Miguel Angel (Michelangelo), and my older sister's name is Angélica.
I was named Miguel, plain and simple. My father says the hypocrisy had to stop somewhere ;)
I remember this story! We reposted it and, I think, used it in one of our books. Synchros abound in your life, Mike.
In this essay I said that tHe Mexican cashier was pretty. Well, let me clarify
that.
First - She said nothing at all. to me or to the customers ahead of me in the line. She smiled and pantomimed everything.
You know who she looked like?
If you were doing a movie about the birth of Christ, and you needed to cast a beautiful young woman to play the role of the Virgin Mary, this girl would be who you would hire.
She looked like the incarnation of Mary, mother of Jesus.
Like - an archetype of that kind of purity and sweetness.
Like - a kind of perfect beauty that nobody I have never seen on this earth - except with this girl.
Like this?
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-y1TAqCRlR5w/ULzSI_zZiDI/AAAAAAAAA04/t7sNK7O07pc/s1600/mary-keisha-castle-hughes.jpg
Reply to RPJ,
About the angel in the grocery store as The Blessed Virgin....
You sent me a picture of the British actress, Olivia Hussey, from Franco Zefferelli's Jesus of Nazareth (1977)
The cashier I saw looked more, well, more Mexican (and not British). She looked like the actress Catalina Sandino Moreno.
- also -
Today, August 15th is Assumption of Mary Day...
The Catholic Church teaches as dogma that the Virgin Mary "having completed the course of her earthly life, was assumed body and soul into heavenly glory."
In the churches that observe it, the Assumption is a major feast day, commonly celebrated on August 15. In many countries the feast is also marked as a Holy Day of Obligation.
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