Punny Stories

Our beloved bishop David was in charge of the sharing time today and ended up unintentionally being very punny. I hope none of our guests were shocked at the rising titter of laughter that followed his entertaining comment.

Arlyn had just shared how their family trip to CA turned out to be a real blessing. They prayed for protection–once just before they ventured onto a freeway. About ten minutes later, in a rented car, a tire blew out. Whereupon their six(?) year old son said, “Well, I guess God didn’t answer that prayer.”

Arlyn went on to say that he doesn’t know if they explained things just right, but they did talk about the fact that, even though they were inconvenienced by the blowout, they were blessed in that no one was hurt when it happened. So God really did protect them, just as they had asked.

In response, with an apparent reference to the way daily life can safely be committed to God, knowing that God hears and answers, David said, “That’s where the rubber meets the road.”

When people laughed, he quickly added, “That pun was unintended. I’m not that smart.”

I hope those who object to laughter in church were mollified by the disclaimer. For those of us who needed no mollifying, the “jollifying” was quite nice.

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My sister Linda told me tonight about a conversation she overheard between Joel and my mother. Joel apparently had heard that she took a tumble recently, and said something to her about it.

“Well, I’m glad there wasn’t more fallout,” Mom said. (She wasn’t hurt.)