The woman waited several weeks before someone in
the prison died. She was asleep in her cell when she
heard the death bell ring.
She got up and slowly walked down the hallway. She was nearly caught a
couple of times. Her heart was
beating fast. She opened the door to the darkened
room where the coffins were kept. Quietly in the
dark, she found the coffin that contained the dead body, carefully
climbed into the coffin and pulled the lid shut to wait for the
caretaker to come and nail the lid shut.
Soon she heard footsteps
and the pounding of the
hammer and nails.
Even though she was very uncomfortable in the coffin with the dead body,
she knew that with each nail she was one step closer to freedom.
The coffin was lifted onto the wagon and taken outside to the graveyard.
She could feel the coffin being lowered into the ground. She didn't
make a sound as the coffin hit the bottom of the grave with
a thud.
Finally she heard the dirt dropping onto the top of
the wooden coffin, and she knew that it was only a matter of time and
she would be free at last.
After several minutes of absolute silence, she began to laugh...happily
feeling free already and chanting she was free! she was free!
Feeling curious, she decided to light the flashlight to find out the
identity of the dead prisoner beside her. To her horror, she discovered that she was lying next
to the CARETAKER; her only hope to freedom. Many people believe
they have life all figured
out, that they are well connected and can arrange and pre-arrange
things to their favour, but sometimes it just doesn't turn out the
way they planned it.
Think of a 'Plan B'!!! "I don't know what
tomorrow holds, but I know WHO
holds tomorrow." The Happiest People don't have the best of everything.
They just make the best of what they have.
Lovely article justina
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