A man and his dog were
walking along a road. The man was enjoying the
scenery, when it suddenly occurred to him that he was
dead. He remembered dying, and
that the dog walking beside him had been dead for years. He
wondered where the road was leading them.
After
a while, they came to a high, white stone wall along one side
of the road. It looked like fine
marble. At the top of a long hill, it was broken
by a tall arch that glowed in the sunlight. When he
was standing before it he saw a
magnificent gate in the arch that looked like Mother of
Pearl, and the street that led
to the gate looked like pure gold.
He and the dog
walked toward the gate, and as he got closer, he saw a man
at a desk to one side. When he was close enough, he
called out, "Excuse me, where
are we?"
"This is Heaven, sir," the man
answered.
"Wow! Would you happen to have some
water?" the man asked.
"Of course, sir. Come
right in, and I'll have some ice water brought right
up." The man gestured, and the gate began to
open.
"Can my friend," gesturing toward his
dog, "come in, too?" the traveler
asked.
"I'm sorry sir, but we don't accept
pets."
The man thought a moment and then turned
back toward the road and continued the
way he had been going with his dog.
After another long
walk, and at the top of another long hill, he came to a
dirt road which led through a farm gate that looked as
if it had never been closed.
There was no fence. As he approached the gate, he saw a man
inside, leaning against a tree
and reading a book.
"Excuse me!" he called
to the reader. "Do you have any water?"
"Yeah,
sure, there's a pump over there". The man pointed to a
place that couldn't be seen from
outside the gate. "Come on in."
"How
about my friend here?" the traveler gestured to the
dog.
"There should be a bowl by the pump."
They went through the gate, and sure
enough, there was an old fashioned hand pump with a
bowl beside it.
The traveler filled the bowl and took
a long drink himself, and then he gave
some to the dog. When they were full, he and the dog
walked back toward the man who
was standing by the tree waiting for them. "What do you
call this place?" the
traveler asked.
"This is Heaven," he
answered.
"Well, that's confusing," the
traveler said. "The man down the road said
that was Heaven, too."
"Oh, you mean
the place with the gold street and pearly gates? Nope. That's
Hell."
"Doesn't it make you mad for
them to use your name like that?"
"No. I can
see how you might think so, but we're just happy that they
screen out the folks who'll leave their best friends
behind."
Our
daughter sent this email to me one day, saying it
reminded her of her dad. In fact, it seemed so much like
something Rick
would do, that I wanted to share it with others that knew
him.
I asked
her to send me more. As word spread, I began receiving so
many that I created the library.
As time went by I had to create another,
and another,
and...
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