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Traveling Angels
 
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.
Then 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", the
angel 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."
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