Prayers Dreams and Angel Wings

Our story begins, with a little Angel.  She was indeed little, for all the other Angels were so much taller and their wings seemed to cover the sky to her.  This little Angel would watch from a cloud, and sigh with happiness at the sight of them  passing over.  She was never sad, or angry with them, she was far too happy for them instead.  For she thought,"It is a beautiful thing, and that is not to be upset about. Rather, something to be amazed at in the glory of god."  And then after her sigh, she would smile the smile that only little Angels possess.  But still while so happy, she would often wish that she too would one day have wings like the others.

One day, the little Angel stopped to watch the fairies dance among the sun beams that sprinkled in rays through the clouds.  But after a few minutes the fairies took notice of her, and huddled together with giggles wriggling them tight, and whispered.  The little Angel watched them and smiled back when they would look up to see if she was still there.  "Hallo!  Do you enjoy the sunbeams today fairies?", she tried to start conversation.  She loved fairies as they too were small, and never sad about their stature, quite opposite in fact.  As suddenly as she finished her question, the fairies huddle burst apart with even more giggling and wriggling into the sunbeams.  Then one flew up close to her nose, and with a giggle said "Little Angel, do you know your place?" in a voice of windchimes.  "Well of course, my place is with god" she smilingly replied.  The little fairy nodded with a smile, and quickly did a back and around little twirl sprinkling dust over the little Angel.  The little Angel giggled and shivered as it fell up on her, for fairy dust is slightly shivery and tingles.  The small fairy watched a brief second and gave a double nod, and then flew down to join the others diving into the sunbeams.  "What a joy it must be to spread shivers and tingles to others as they do!", thought the little Angel and then she departed their play.

The next day, the little Angel woke from her pillow of cloud and yawned and stretched in pure bliss.  "What a wonderful dream I had Lord!  I dreamed I too had large wings like the others, and I flew and I flew..."  and then she smiled again, as only little Angels can.  "Thank you Lord for such a dream!"  And with her last word...she launched off to find the fairies and to share her dream with them.  After she found the fairies, they were in the sunbeams again, she started her descent.  As she did, she noticed some of the sunbeams they were playing in, went out, and the fairies fell a short distance with a suprised laugh looking up at her.  "It is she! It is she! The one to whom we delivered the dream!"  She heard them call to each other, as she took up a small cloud to rest upon.  She looked around for this she they spoke of  but saw no others present.  "You mean! You gave me the dream of wings?", she asked in wonderment.  The fairies doubled over and wriggled and giggled for a while before finally one approached to answer.

"No, Angel we did not give you this dream, it was yours!  We were just sent to deliver it while you slept!", the fairy told her with a big smile.  "Then it was God that gave me the dream!" she smiled again.  "No no no Angel, it was your dream, God simply heard your prayers!  Dont you know?"  The little Angel was not certain she did and slowly shook her head.  "Then why did you bring it to me?  If it was already my dream, and God heard my prayers why did you come to me?"  And now all the fairies giggled and laughed for quite a long time, dancing around the little Angel, who could not help but laugh too, for fairy laughter is very contagious.  When at last all the fairies and now the little Angel stopped laughing to catch a breath, one fairy spoke out, "Angel you didnt know?  We fairies are the deliverers of dreams and prayers come true!  Why look, do you not see the beams are fewer today than yesterday?  Do you not know you have been blessed?"  And with that all the fairies flew behind the little Angel and lifted her wings...  And she saw, in wide eyed wonderment the truth of her blessing.  " Oh thank you! Thank you God!  Thank you Fairies! I have my wings!"  She pushed up into the sky, faster and faster to a height she had not known so easily before.  "Thank you!", she cried as she spread her new wings as far as they could reach.  And with that she shed a smile tear of joy that fell...fell... only to be snatched up quick as light by the small fairies.  For everyone knows, fairy dust is mostly made of such things. 

And that... is how the little Angel got her wings.  So now dear Angel, you know why you must say your prayers before you sleep and be certain you do them in that order.  For Fairies must first be told to deliver the magic of prayers and they can only bring them to you, while you dream.

Nite Nite.