What If?

What if autistic children were sent onto this earth as angels, and those angels were sent to see how others would treat them?  What if those children were meant to someday inherit the earth and the heavens, and the rest of us would be judged by how we treated them?  What if we are protected as we protected them, respected as we respected them, and loved as we loved them? 

What if the poor were sent onto this earth as angels, and those angels were sent to see how others would treat them?  What if the poor were meant to someday inherit the earth and the heavens, and the rest of us would be judged by how we treated them?  What if we are treated with kindness and generosity as we treated them in kind?

What if pain and struggle was a gift from God, and that gift was sent to see how others would respond?  What if those in the greatest pain were meant to someday inherit the earth and the heavens, and the rest of us would be judged by how we responded?  What if we are comforted and cared for as we did for others on earth?

The angels are already here.  The gifts are already at our feet.  Those gifts have nothing to do with gold or money, but rather our capacity to love one another and care for those who need us the most.  For it will be those people who will inherit the riches forever.

Be well and God bless.  Tom