Inviting your Angel

"The pain was so great, that it made me moan; and yet so surpassing was the sweetness of this excessive pain, that I could not wish to be rid of it."
-St. Teresa of Avila

St. Teresa was writing about a spiritual experience, and her pain and ecstasy came from her vision of the Divine. But ever since this sculpture grouping by Bernini was installed in the church of Sta Maria della Vittoria in Rome, people have remarked that her attitude of bliss looks like she's experiencing an orgasm. But enough about her.

It's the Angel that interests me more. The word "angel" comes from the Greek for "messenger." What a message He's bringing! What a delivery! So calm and graceful and peaceful, so joyous and engaged, so attentive and abstracted, just before He plunges that arrow that brings exquisite torment and ecstasy. He's my Hero. That's a Top, baby! That's the One you want giving you what you - maybe - possibly - deserve.

Now Saint Teresa invited her angel probably through days of meditative prayer and fasting. You might be able to follow her example and do the same. But who has the time for that nowadays? I've got a better idea. Act and dress like the submissive, or slave, or just bottom that you wish you were, do that as much as you can and in as many places as you can, and - maybe - possibly - your Angel just might show up with an arrow of torment and ecstasy just for you!