Two travelling angels stopped to spend the night in
the home of a wealthy family.
The family was rude and refused to let the angels
stay in the mansion's guest room.
Instead the angels were given a small space in the
cold basement.
As they made their bed on the hard floor, the older
angel saw a hole in the wall and repaired it.
When the younger angel asked why, the older angel
replied, "Things aren't always what they seem."
The next night the pair came to rest at the house of
a very poor, but very hospitable farmer and his wife.
After sharing what little food they had the couple
let the angels sleep in their bed where they could have a good night's rest.
When the sun came up the next morning the angels
found the farmer and his wife in tears.
Their only cow, whose milk had been their sole
income, lay dead in the field.
The younger angel was infuriated and asked the older
angel, "How could you have let this happen? The first man had
everything, yet you helped him," she accused. "The second family
had little but was willing to share everything, and you let the cow die."
"Things aren't always what they seem," the
older angel replied. "When we stayed in the basement of the mansion,
I noticed there was gold stored in that hole in the wall. Since the owner
was so obsessed with greed and unwilling to share his good fortune, I sealed
the wall so he wouldn't find it."
"Then last night as we slept in the farmers
bed, the angel of death came for his wife I gave him the cow
instead. Things aren't always what they seem."
Sometimes that is exactly what happens when
things don't turn out the way we expect they should. If you have faith,
you just need to trust that every outcome is always to your advantage. You just
might not know it until sometime later....
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