Sunday, November 8, 2009

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Things Are Not Always What They Seem

Taken from Elizabeth Mahlou's blog with her permission. If you don't visit her, please do. :)

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," he 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."

9 comments:

  1. Cool story! And I love your new look Miss Robyn, very classy!

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  2. Wow! I really enjoyed this story. Thanks for sharing :)

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  3. Robyn, Thanks for the story, I really enjoyed it. As a longtime fan of your blog, I'm going to ask a question that's been bothering me for some time, but I've been reluctant to bring it up. How do you know WHAT you want to write? I read and love all kinds of books, really everything except horror. I've written several mystery manuscripts, and was working on an historic romance when My DH died, and everything got dropped. Now I want to write again, but I think I might like to write YA fiction. I can't decide what to settle on. Any suggestions to help me get unstuck? Thanks.

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  4. I love stories like this --- fables that make you think. A little like Aesop :D

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  5. Love the story!!!!!! Thanks for posting it.

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  6. Powerful. It's all in perspective isn't it?

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  7. Thanks for the very cool story!

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