| Have you ever began a new job not knowing the | | | | boyfriends, but our little angel just kept helping |
| first thing about it? Actually, many employers prefer | | | | people, wearing her worn out and out of date |
| this, so that they can train you their way. This | | | | clothes, and forgetting about herself. |
| doesn't work in heaven, however. You might get in | | | | Her friends, in their later years, shed many tears and |
| without skills, but you won't be able to stay there! | | | | suffered greatly, and then grew old and diseased and |
| When Christ said that we should in effect give up | | | | eventually died, but because they were still attached |
| everything and follow him, He knew what He was | | | | to the world, God in his mercy sent them back to |
| talking about. Whatever it is in the world that we are | | | | the world, to go through it all again. But this time, |
| still attached to and can't do without, that is exactly | | | | because they teased an angel, it wasn't going to be |
| what boots us out of heaven - and maybe just | | | | so easy for them. As a matter of fact, they would |
| when we were beginning to feel comfortable there! | | | | eventually cry enough tears to fill an ocean because |
| Look at the world of an angel. She has no physical | | | | of the many lifetimes they would have to suffer |
| body, so she doesn't need a house, doesn't need | | | | through. |
| companionship because she is satisfied with that | | | | So we should look carefully at our ambition and our |
| something Greater that she has come to know, and | | | | competitiveness, because ambition and aggression |
| for sure she doesn't need pizza! All of the worldly | | | | comes from jealousy and envy, so don't involve |
| tastes have disappeared for her, and all that she is | | | | yourself with these things. Do what society thinks is |
| left with is compassion for humanity and a willingness | | | | stupid, like sharing with others and being against war, |
| to ease humanity's' suffering in whatever way she | | | | and begin honing your skills so that heaven sticks this |
| can. | | | | time. |
| She didn't acquire these angel skills in heaven, | | | | It's all up to you, you know, no one else, and if you |
| however, she acquired them while still living on earth | | | | are not sure what skills are the right skills, just spend |
| and doing things that most of her friends thought | | | | fifteen minutes a day in contemplative prayer or |
| were stupid. Her friends would laugh at her and make | | | | meditation, and listen for the angels to help you. |
| her feel bad, teasing her with their new dresses and | | | | They speak softly. |