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. You just need to trust that

every outcome is always to your advantage. You just might

not know it until some time later.

For every adversity lies within it an equivalent benefit.
All you need to do it to unwrap it and find it out. Remember,
things aren't always what they seem to be...