angels can fly, of course, but did you know that they can’t walk? They never experience what it’s like to lose their balance, or to trip, or to have to get up from a stumble to the ground. They never fall, a scenario that is all too familiar to us.
This insight is not original with me. It came from a rabbi and Jewish scholar, drawing from the book of Ezekiel. Right in the first chapter, the rabbi pointed out, we read the description of the angels that appeared to the prophet. The angels emerged from a cloud:
