THE KINGDOM OF HEAVEN

WHERE IS THE KINGDOM OF HEAVEN? IS IT IN PALESTINE? ROME? ISRAEL? I WONDER WHERE THIS KINGDOM IS. I MUST FIND IT. I HAVE SEARCHED AND SEARCHED BUT PEOPLE ON THE STREETS COULD NOT POINT ME IN THE RIGHT DIRECTION. UNTIL I MET A OLD MAN SITTING ON THE BUS STOP. HE SAID TO ME, "YOUNG MAN, I WILL TAKE YOU TO THE KINGDOM OF HEAVEN." FINALLY, I M ON MY WAY TO THIS GLORIOUS KINGDOM.HE SAID "IF YOU WILL MEET ME HERE AT THIS SAME BUS STOP IN SEVEN DAYS, THEN YOU WILL BE READY TO GO TO THE KINGDOM OF HEAVEN." SO I SPENT THE NEXT SEVEN DAYS AT HOME PREPARING FOR MY TRIP TO THE KINGDOM OF HEAVEN. ON THE FIRST DAY, I GOT A CALL FROM MY NEIGHBOR NEXT DOOR WHO NEEDED $50 FOR GROCERIES FOR HIS CHILDREN. SO I WENT INTO MY SAVINGS TO ASSIST HIM. THE SECOND DAY I WAS ASKED TO HELP VOLUNTEER AT THE HOMELESS SHELTER TO FEED THE RESIDENTS. I GLADLY HELPED. THE THIRD DAY I RAN INTO AN OLD ENEMY WHO STOLE MONEY FROM ME YEARS BACK. HE WAS NERVOUS THINKING THAT I WAS GOING TO BEAT HIM DOWN. INSTEAD, I GAVE HIM A HUG AND $10  AS HE WAS IN BAD SHAPE. I TOLD HIM THAT HE WAS FORGIVEN. THE REST OF THE DAYS I FASTED AND PRAYED. THEN CAME DAY NUMBER SEVEN. I WENT TO THE SAME BUS STOP TO MEET THE OLD MAN.INSTEAD, A LITTLE ELDERY WOMAN WAS THERE. SHE SAID TO ME, "ARE YOU THE ONE THAT MY HUSBAND WAS WAITED ON?" I REPLIED "YES". SHE SAID THAT HE PASSED AWAY THIS MORNING BUT HE WANTED ME TO TELL YOU THAT THE SEVEN DAYS YOU WAITED, YOU WERE ALREADY IN THE KINGDOM OF HEAVEN, FOR JESUS SAID THE KINGDOM OF HEAVEN IS WITHIN YOU!!! CURRY'S CORNER.