NOT ALWAYS AS THEY SEEM
Two traveling angels
stopped to spend the night in the home of a wealthy family. The family was rather rude and refused to let
the angels stay in any of the mansion’s guest rooms. Instead, the angels were given a 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 quite hospitable farmer and his
wife. After sharing what little food
they had, the couple let the angels sleep in their only 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 so
little, but was willing to share everything and you let their 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 this is exactly
what happens when things don’t turn out the way you think they should. If you have faith, you just need to trust that
every outcome is always to your advantage. You might not know it until later days of your
journey through life. Things aren’t
always what they seem.
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