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Heaven Bound
A star basketball dies and is line at the pearly gates. Ahead of him is a talkative guy dressed in sunglasses, a loud t-shirt, a leather jacket and jeans. ST Peter addresses the noisy guy, "Who are you?"
The guy replies, "I am Joe Espinosa, taxi driver, of Las Vegas."
St Peter consults his list. He smiles and says to the taxi driver, "Take this silk robe and golden staff and enter the kingdom of Heaven!" The taxi driver enters through the gates with his robe and staff. Then it's the basketball player's turn.
The basketball player stands erect, all seven feet of him, and announces, "Yo, I'm Joseph Snow, NBA Player of the Year."
St Peter consults his list. Finally, he says to the athlete, "Take this polyester robe and wooden staff and enter the kingdom of Heaven."
"Just a minute," says the basketball player, "That man ahead of me was a taxi driver, and he got a silk robe and 24 karat golden staff. How can this be?"
"Up here, we work by results," advised St Peter. "There is nothing you did as a basketball player that improved your fellowman."
"But what about the taxi driver?" the athlete interrupted.
"While he was careening in and out of Las Vegas traffic, people were in the backseat praying!"
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