Two 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. 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 farmer’s 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. If you have faith, you just need to trust that every out come is always to your advantage. You just might not know it until some time later...
We will never know how much just a simple smile will do.
-Mother Teresa
Shelters: SAN FRANCISCO
Bay Area Benefits Access Collaborative (BAYBAC)
995 Market St., # 915
San Francisco, CA 94103
Phone: 415-512-1728
Fax: 415-512-7334
Email: fmcilveen@sfbar.org
The General Assistance Advocacy Project (GAAP)
276 Golden Gate Avenue
San Francisco, CA 94102
Phone: 415-928-8191
Contact: Manel Kappagoda
Email: kappagod@holmes.uchastings.edu
The Homeless Advocacy Project
995 Market St. # 915
San Francisco, CA 94103, the cross street is 6th St.
Phone: 415-974-6541
Fax: 415-512-7334
Email: aengel@sfbar.org
1065 Sutter Street
San Francisco, CA 94109
Phone: 415-474-3245
Fax: 415-771-4251
Email: raphael@raphaelhouse.org
Homeless Health Project
UCSF - Dept. of FCM
Box 0900
San Francisco, CA 94143
Email: kgill@itsa.ucsf.edu
Email:stewartd@ece.ucdavis.edu
San Francisco State University
BAHP / CHHS
1600 Holloway Avenue
San Francisco, CA 94132-1722Shelters: SAN JOSE
2011 Little Orchard Street
San Jose, CA 95124
Phone: (408) 294-2100
Fax: (408) 294-1400
Email: ehc@homelessness.org
Innovative Concept Transitional Housing, Inc.
1571 Endicott Drive
San Jose, CA 95122
Phone: 408-937-5904
Email: Celeste1@pacbell.net974 Willow St.
San Jose, CA 95125
Phone: (408) 292-4286
Fax: (408) 271-0826
Email: jan@innvision.sj.ca.usSavings Associations Mortgage Company Inc. (SAMCO)
152 N. Third St #605
San Jose, CA 95112
Phone: 408-938-7900
Toll Free: 877-26-SAMCO
Fax: 408-885-0204