Chapter Eighteen

Jack

Heaven

“WOW!” ERNIE GASPED with admiration. “How did you do that? You fouled up their computers. I had no idea that you knew anything about computers.”

“I have had so many prayers about keeping computers up and running go through the Pray Care Center,” Jack replied as he paced at the edge of the cloud that gave him the best view of the research labs on the outside of the village. “After the first thousand or so prayer requests, I had to learn about computers to understand what people were praying for. Sometimes it was the machine that was not working properly. Sometimes it was a person’s unhappiness with his or her job or task. I had to know where to send the prayer request so it could be answered properly.”

“They are not pleased when we intrude on human endeavors.” Ernie gulped. “Or so I have heard.”

“I am hoping they do not find out what I have done. If we can keep everything going the way it is down there, soon the problem may have solved itself.”

“And if it does not?”

“I will have to figure something else out.” He rubbed his hands together uneasily, because he knew there might be only one way of resolving the mess his good intentions had caused. It was not something he had ever anticipated doing, and he hoped the problem was smoothed over and everyone went on with their lives without further interference from him. He had gotten used to his wings. He did not want to lose them.

“What?”

“Let me worry about that.” He did not add that he had not been doing much of anything else since he had sent the baby to Earth by mistake.