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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 mansions 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 family, but very hospitable farmer and his wife. After sharing the little food they had, they couple let the angels sleep on there bed where they could have a good night 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 he asked the older angel, "how could you have possibly allow this to happen?"
"The first man had everything, yet you helped him," she accused. "The second family had little but was willing to share everything, and yet 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 store 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 would not find it again. The last night as we slept on the poor farmers bed, the angel of death came for the poor mans wife, but I gave him the cow instead. Please try to understand that, "Things aren't always what they seem."
Sometimes this is exactly what happens when things don't turn out the way we think they should. If you have faith and courage, you just need to trust that every outcome is always in your advantage. You might not know it until sometime later….
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Henry Ekwuruke
Henry Ekwuruke is Executive Director of the Development Generation Africa International.
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Great Abongta Shu Moncha Brain | Oct 19th, 2006
This is great, I like every word in that story and keep on with this spirtit. Things aren't always what they seem indeed
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