It Wasn’t Worth Hearing
The young preacher was called to a rural church and appeared for his first sermon that Sunday. To his dismay he found that one of the parishioners had brought his dog to the service. He asked the dog’s owner to kindly remove the animal. The man obligingly took the dog out and returned to his seat.
After the service, the church deacons rebuked the new preacher for insulting one of their staunchest members. The dog made no trouble, they pointed out, and had been accompanying its master to church for years. The preacher called on the dog’s owner and apologized.
“Don’t worry about it, Reverend,” the man replied. “It all worked out. I wouldn’t have had my dog hear that sermon for anything in the world.”
God’s Problem Now (A repost but worth the smile again)
His wife’s graveside service was just barely finished, when there was a massive clap of thunder, followed by a tremendous bolt of lightning, accompanied by even more thunder rumbling in the distance. The little old man looked at the pastor and calmly said,
“Well, she’s there.”
Consequences
Several years ago while working at the county jail (where I still work) I was locking down the inmates for the night and one man didn’t want to get off the phone. After several attempts to get him to hang up the phone failed I switched it off.
About two nights later I was working the same wing and the same inmate called me over and said that if we were on the street that wouldn’t happen.
I said, “Ya, I would have no reason to tell you to get off the phone and if I wanted to use a phone I would go and find one.”
He had nothing more to say.
