"She sings like an angel." Well, no, no one has ever said that to me - something about a tune and a bucket, maybe, but never an angelic comparison. I'm not offended.
I wonder, though, what would an angel's song actually sound like? Beautiful, to be sure! But maybe too beautiful for mere human ears to take in. I mean, when the shepherds heard just one angel, that angel had to calm them. "Fear not," he (she?) assured them. And let's assume that had a profound effect on the watchers of sheep and they let their fear melt away. And then an unimaginable number MORE angels made a sudden appearance. I might be tempted to think the first angel had been speaking sarcastically!
All those singing heavenly voices belting out their best "Glory to God in the highest!" Imagine the loudest concert you have ever attended, in the smallest room possible, with an enthusiastic crowd singing along, and King Kong on drums, and the biggest and best amplification. Then raise it to the multitude! It had to sound like thunder - the kind that booms suddenly and immediately overhead! The kind that reverberates in your bones!
Imagine Heaven, who had been anxiously waiting for Earth's salvation, bursting into song. Now THAT is an angel song - one that cannot be even closely approximated by mere human. But that won't stop me from trying!
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