Marrissa had taken to visiting the hospital alot in between her good and bad deeds. The peacefullness of the place was a balm for her. A lot of people thought hospitals were noisy busy places, and of course for the living and surviving they are, but for the passing soul it is a quiet surreal kind of noise. Calming. Well for the most part. Every once in a while a soul fought passing, causing frenzy in the emergency rooms, when all was for aught anyway. The ones that Marrissa loved the most though were the stupid ones, the ones that she could convince that this was hell and they were never gonna leave the hospital for eternity. Boy those were good times. But for right now, Marrissa was just floating along looking for something to do, someone to connect with, some peace. Sometimes she thought of that handsome angel Satan, and wondered really just what that was gonna be like, probably give her a vibrator with no batteries and make her look at him all the time. Now that would be hell.
Going into the preemie sector, she found a soul hovering over a tiny baby. The soul was so sad.
" What happened? Do you know?"
" No, I just know that Himself and Herself have given me these parents a couple of times and the mother just cant seem to keep me with her. I just want to earn my way into the big time, the better time. But to do that I gotta be born and die a few more times so I can learn all I need to learn. Sorry, I know I should be glad of the chance at all, some dont ever get it, but I'm not. I really wanted to live this time."
" I'm sorry, I dont know what to say. But if you want to, you can tell me about this big time stuff your talking about. I never heard about that before." Marrissa thought she knew it all. Your born, you die,you pay your price, you go to heaven and your reborn. Thats it. Now she finds out that not it!
" Yeah might as well be out of here, I hate to watch the rest of this. Tears and the body being destroyed. Brings bad memories of past lives."
So Marrissa and Jay as he called himself, floated to the top of thehospital and settled on the roof.
" Now you said past lives? Whats that about,and whats this big time about, and..."
"Whoa there, slow down Marrissa. Let me see just what you know and just what I can say. First of all, you know your shrinking right? Didnt Death come get you yet? If not, your gonna be gone soon, and I mean really gone,no energy, no space, no nothing."
"Death hasnt found me yet. And I got tired of waiting, so I tried to get help from Peter, and Satan, but they said only Death can help me."
" Well their right. Death has to decide where ya go. In fact Death is a bit late for me too. Wonder where he's at. He's usually on top of things. Must be a back log or something.
Anyway, you die, you go to hell, most everyone does. I cant tell you what your hell will be like, cause Satan is pretty ingenious, its individual what happens to that soul, but when they are ready they go to Peter and he lets them in the gate. There you rest up, meet with old friends, in general go to different classes, learn about the next levels...."
"levels? there are levels? Sounds like school. I didnt do very well there."
" No, what I mean is its like a big wheel, you know that corny movie about the "circle of life", ok that true to a point. Our bodies die and feed other things giving birth to other things, well its kind of like that. your soul moves on to bigger and better plans, does more, sees more, I mean the heaven are an infinity. I am on my third time around trying for just the next level."
Marrissas soul got very quiet. She had never heard anything like this shit. Oops, now she would really have to watch.... Forget it. She had some time and a few " levels", so this soul was gonna have some fun. But it was kind of interesting to hear about the big time.
" Do you know what the big time is?"
"No, I just heard it from a couple of angels that got their golden wings".
So Marrissa "sat" next to this older soul no longer speaking, each into their individual thoughts about the up coming events in their existance.
