Hear the Angels Sing

I've just been listening to a choir singing Bob Chilcott's Mid Winter. It was recommended to me by a choir friend and it is utterly beautiful. As I was listening I found myself wondering if that is what angels sound like? 
If we do as the Methodist Church has invited us to and try and 'hush the noise and hear the angels singing' would we hear perfectly pitched, harmonious choirs making a sound which send shivers up your spine and causes tears to well up in your eyes? I suspect many of us would think so. But why? Why should all the angels be pitch perfect and spine tinglingly amazing singers? Perhaps you would want to argue because God made them, and so they would be perfect. But God made us and we definitely aren't. We're imperfect in bad ways when we say or do things that mar the image of God within each one of us. But we're also imperfect in ways which simply make us unique and interesting, the shape of our face, the funny little habit we have, our inability to pitch a note...
There's a wonderful story in Margaret Silf's Wisdom Stories of a good king who sends out 3 servants to tell the people in a neighbouring land where everyone was very unhappy and life was hard, that they would be welcomed in his kingdom and he would take care of them. The first servant had a beautiful singing voice, the second had an amazing way with the written word, the third was just 'ordinary.' It was this imperfect ordinariness which brought the people to the good king's land because she wasn't out of reach in her perfection.

I wish you all a blessed Christmas and 2025. I hope you hear the angels sing, but don't be surprised if they aren't always in tune, and don't be surprised if you find out that one of the angels is you.

God bless, Angy