~ The One Who Looked Like a Man ~

On the twenty-fourth day of the first month,
as I was standing on the bank of the great river, Tigris,
I looked up and there before me was a man
dressed in linen,
with a belt of the finest gold around his waist.
His body was like chrysolite,
his face like lightning,
his eyes like flaming torches,
his arms and legs like the gleam of burnished bronze,
and his voice like the sound of a multitude.

. . . the one who looked like a man
touched me and gave me strength.
"Do not be afraid, O man highly esteemed," he said.
"Peace!
Be strong now; be strong."

(Daniel 10:4-6, 18-19)