Little Johnny and his father came across his puppy, dead in the back yard. Daddy explained that Buddy had gone to heaven.

“So why are his legs sticking up in the air like that, Daddy?” asked Little Johnny, as he fought back tears.

At a loss for something to say the father replied, “Buddy’s legs are pointing straight up in the air so that it will be easier for Jesus to take him by the leg and lift him up to heaven.”

Little Johnny seemed to take Buddy’s death quite well. However, two days later when his father came home from work, Little Johnny had tears in his eyes as he said, “Mommy almost died this morning.”

Fearing something terrible had happened, his father questioned, “What do you mean Johnny? Tell Daddy!”

“Well”, mumbled Little Johnny, “Soon after you left for work this morning I saw Mommy lying on the floor with her legs in the air and she was shouting, ‘Oh Jesus! I’m coming, I’m coming!’ And, if it hadn’t been for the neighbor who was holding her down, she would have gone to Heaven just like Buddy did.”