Once there was a little fish who lived in the sea. It swam with a great school of other fishes, living, loving, and learning in a seemingly endless expanse that provided for its every need.
The fish was happy enough. But sometimes it struggled to find food and always it swam in fear of bigger fish – or worse the white-winged creatures that plunged down upon members of its school when they least expected it…
“I am the angel of death and I came to get you,” said the angel. “But as you were kind, I will lend you the Book of Destiny for five minutes; you may change what you want.”
The angel gave the man the book. As he was leafing through its pages, the man began reading about the lives of his neighbors. And he got discontented…
A dot of movement grows larger as it rushes downwards. Like a runaway candle it enters the earth’s atmosphere. Is it a chunk broken away from the moon? Or, could it be a flying saucer?
No, it’s a very beautiful young angel. Here? An angel? Her name is Esther. And she smacks into the highest spruce tree. One wing now trapped between two branches.
Help me…
Perhaps Jesus sent some of His apostles to Hell to save souls,” said John, even in the worst of torments, not all is lost.”
The idea surprises me. We are chatting in one of the few bars in Los Angeles. John is a…
A newly arrived soul in Heaven was met by St. Peter. The saint toured the soul around Heaven. Both of them walked side by side inside a large workroom filled with angels.
St. Peter stopped in front of the first section and said, This is the Receiving Section. Here, all the petitions to God said in prayer are received.
The soul looked at the section, and it was terribly busy with so many angels…
There was a king who presented his daughter with a beautiful diamond necklace. The necklace was stolen and his people in the kingdom searched everywhere but could not find it. The king then asked them all to search for it and put a reward for $50,000 for anyone who found it.
One day, a clerk was walking home along a river next to an industrial area. This river was completely polluted and filthy and…
An old legend says that in the beginning, when God created the world, He gave every living thing an angel to bless and guard it – an angel for man, one for the birds, one for the beasts of the forest, one for the trees, and one for the flowers.
Even the common grass had an angel. But the angel of the grass was not pleased…
“I am a daisy in a field of daisies,” thought the flower. “Amidst others, it is impossible to notice my beauty.”
An angel heard what she was thinking and commented:
But you are so pretty!
I want to be the only one!
In order not to hear any complaints, the angel…
Abbot Isaac of Thebes was in the patio of the monastery praying when he saw one of the monks commit a sin. Furious, he interrupted his prayers and condemned the sinner.
That night he was prevented from returning to his cell by an angel who said to him…
A monk was meditating in the desert when a beggar came up to him and said:
I need to eat.
The monk — who was almost reaching the point of perfect harmony with the spiritual world — did not answer.
I need to eat, insisted the beggar.
Go to the town and ask someone else. Can’t you see that you are bothering me? I am trying to…
