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Things
Aren't Always What They Seem
Two traveling
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 they should. If
you have faith, you just need to trust that every outcome is
always to your advantage … even if you don't understand it until some
time
later.
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© 2006, Jace Carlton. All International Rights Reserved.
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