Balance

Once upon a time in the kingdom of Heaven, God was missing for six days. Eventually, Michael the Archangel found him, resting on the seventh day.

He inquired of God, "Where have you been?"

God sighed a deep sigh of satisfaction and proudly pointed downwards through the clouds, "Look, Michael. Look what I've made."

Archangel Michael looked puzzled and said, "What is it?".

"It's a planet," replied God, "and I've put Life on it. I'm going to call it Earth and it's going to be a great place of balance."

"Balance?" inquired Michael, still confused.

God explained, pointing to different parts of earth. "For example, northern Europe will be a place of great opportunity and wealth, but cold and harsh while southern Europe is going to be poor but sunny and pleasant."

"I have made some lands abundant in water and other lands parched deserts."

"This one will be extremely hot, while this one will be very cold and covered in ice."

The Archangel, impressed by God's work, then pointed to a group of islands and said, "What's are those?"

"Ah," said God. "That's the Philippines, the most glorious place on earth. There are beautiful beaches, rivers, mountains and forests. The people from the Philippines are going to be handsome, modest, intelligent and humorous and they are going to be found traveling the world. They will be extremely sociable, hardworking and high achieving, and they will be known throughout the world as carriers of peace and love."

Michael gasped in wonder and admiration but then proclaimed, "What about balance, God? You said there would be balance."

God replied, "Wait until you see the idiots I put in the government."

Found this buried deep in my inbox. After posting If Noah was Pinoy...., I remember having read another email I received a couple of years before with a similar theme. I managed to find it after some digging, and decided to post it because of it's, let us say, "timeliness." :-) Of course, the Philippines does not claim a monopoly on idiotic government officials, so if you're from another country and you can relate, feel free to change the country reference if you're so inclined to pass this around. :-)

Peace!

Comments

OptyMyst said…
hehe ron. do you know of a government to which this story could not be related?
October 23, 2005 2:50 PM
Ronald Allan said…
Come to think of it...:-)
October 23, 2005 3:15 PM
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