Two traveling angels stopped to spend the night at the home of a wealthy family. The family was rude and refused to let the angels stay in the guest rooms in the main house. Instead, they got a little space in the cold basement.
As they stretched on the hard floor, the older ones saw angels a hole in the wall and repaired it. When the younger angel asked why, the older angel replied: "Things are not always what they seem to be."
to rest at the next night the pair in the house of a very poor but very hospitable farmer and his wife. After the little food they had, had shared with them, they let the angels sleep in their bed where they slept well.
As the sun up the next morning the sky the angels found the farmer and his wife in tears. been your only cow, whose milk is their sole income, lay dead on 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," he said accusingly.
"The second family had little, and you let the cow die.
" Things are not always what they seem, "said the senior angel.
" When we were resting in the basement of the mansion, I noticed the gold in that hole in the wall in his pocket. Since the owner was so obsessed with greed and share his good fortune did not want sealed I have the wall so that he could not find it.
as we slept the previous night in the farmers bed, the angel of death came to fetch his wife. I gave him the cow instead. Things are not always what they seem. "
(author unknown)
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