This story was created by my grandmother
Aurora Ribeiro Salek that passed away in 1995. To honour her I wrote this story, I just put some more characters and colours.
Once upon a time there was an angel Gabriel, he was rather naughty but he had a good heart. He liked to see the other angels with blue wings flying but he didnt understand why his wings were white and he decided to ask Saint Peter.
Gabriel: Saint Peter why are my wings white?I can fly but my wings are not so beautiful.
Saint Peter: Ohhhh my dear angel your wings are also beautiful and shine like the sun.If you want to have blue wings you have to earn them. As an example there was once an angel called Zalina, she had hope where there was despair, she showed love where there was hate and she saved many lives,in a distant place .So as a reward I gave her beautiful blue wings.
Gabriel: So what should I do then?
Saint Peter: Well now you are going to sleep because you have played a lot,tomorrow I shall tell your mission but first I need to think.
Gabriel went to sleep,he was happy,....
The other day the sky was clear, the angels left in direction of the earth, there were so many,of them... Saint Peter was rather tired because he gave to each angel a mission, so he went to talk to Gabriel
.Saint Peter: Do you think you can face the desilusions of the world?
Gabriel: Ohh Saint Peter I want my blue wings,...
Saint Peter said: You go to earth , I shall give you a bag of things that you will take with you. He then pushed the angel and he fell off in the sky,....but he fainted and woke up two days later.in a cold place inhabited by poor people. The children were starving because there was nothing to eat. The angel started to cry....
Gabriel : Ohh my God what shall I do now??? and he remembered that he had a bag, he took the bag with him so he took it and started to walk around. As he was a handsome angel the children started to follow him.
Gabriel said: I need your help. We are going to make some soup I need matches,wood and a big pan , ..then he looked inside the bag and found the pan, the matches and lots of food. He took some time to prepair everything and all the children helped him. The little angel passed the whole day giving the soup. The queue was long but all the childrenwere able to eat the sacred food. When the soup was almost in the end he decided to eat but suddenly a little boy appeared .He was also hungry the angel immediately gave his soup to this boy.By now Gabriel had grown so tired and weak that he fainted again. . He woke up on the next day but instead of on earth he found that was in heaven., He understood that we are all responsable for our brothers,and we have to take the responsability to help those who need us.
Saint Peter said: Congratulations Gabriel you carried out your mission with merit so now I shall give you beautiful blue wings. Gabriel started to fly and told the other angels his mission to earth but the story doesnt end here, ...
Next story: The angels with the golden wings.
Aurora Ribeiro Salek
Andréa de Oliveira Ribeiro
