A pretty and wealthy woman was serving life
sentence in prison.
Angry and resentful about her plight she had
decided that she would rather die than to live
another year in prison.
Over the years she had become good friends
with one of the prison caretakers. His job,
among others,
was to bury those prisoners who died in a
graveyard
just outside the prison walls.
When a prisoner died, the caretaker rang a
bell,
which was heard by everyone.
The caretaker then
got the body and put it in a casket. Next, he
entered his office to fill out the death
certificate before returning to the casket to
nail the lid shut. Finally, he
put the casket on a wagon to take it to the
graveyard and bury it.
Knowing this routine, the woman devised an
escape plan and shared it with the caretaker;
The next time
the bell rang, the woman would leave her cell
and
sneak into the dark room where the coffins
were
kept. She would slip into the coffin with the
dead
body while the caretaker was filling out the
death
certificate..
When the care-taker returned, he would nail
the lid shut and take the coffin outside the
prison with the woman in the coffin along
with the dead body.
He would then bury the coffin. The woman
having pre-arranged with the caretaker for
special vents in the coffin knew there
would be enough air for her to breathe until
later in the evening when the caretaker would
return to the graveyard under the cover of
darkness, dig up the coffin, open it, and set
her free.
She wld also carry along a small flashlight to
cope with the darkness beneath until the hour
of expected freedom.
The caretaker was reluctant to go along with
this plan, but since he and the woman had
become good
friends over the years, and knowing dat he
stands to gain a lot from this pretty and
wealthy woman, he more than agreed to do it.
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...But at times even the BEST FAILS...
Only one person never fails... GOD.