THE HEARING
Bubba goes to the revival and listens to the preacher.
After
a while, the
preacher asks anyone with needs to come forward and be
prayed
over. Bubba
gets in line.
When it's his turn the preacher says, " Bubba, what you want
me to pray
about?"
Bubba says, "Preacher, I need you to pray for my hearing."
So the preacher puts one finger in Bubba's ear and the other
hand on top
of
his head and prays a while. After a few minutes, he removes
his hands and
says, "Bubba how's your hearing now?" Bubba says, "I
don't
know
preacher, it's not until next
Wednesday in
Montgomery!!
Mildred, the church gossip and self-appointed monitor of the
church's
morals, kept sticking her nose into other people's business. Several
members
did not approve of her activities but feared her enough to maintain
their
silence.
She made a mistake, however, when she accused Henry, a new member, of
being
an alcoholic after she saw his old pickup parked in front of the town's
only
bar one afternoon.
She emphatically told Henry and several others that everyone seeing it
there
would know what he was doing.
Henry, a man of few words, stared at her for a moment and just turned
and
walked away. He didn't explain, defend or deny. He said nothing.
Later that evening, Henry quietly parked his pickup in front of
Mildred's
house... walked home.... and left it there all night.
You gotta love Henry