Matt,
John 4:6-42.
Re joke: snicker, snicker!
Vicki
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From: "Matt" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Thursday, February 19, 2004 9:00 PM
Subject: woman at the well and a joke
> Ok, I will probably look and find it tonight.
> Thought I had this place marked in the bible but evidently not.
> Where do I find the account of when Jesus went and talked to the woman at
> the well.
> Jimmy Evans says that Jesus was actually doing marital counseling here.
> Saying, if you trusted the one true god, you could stop sucking the life
out
> of all of these men looking for something to fill you up.
> She had been married 5 times and had given up on marriage and was living
> with a man by then from what I hear.
> Evans says that jesus was really just messing with this woman by using the
> drawing of the water at the well as a way to illustrate his point.
> Oh, I was going to throw in a joke I heard because I thought this a short
> message before I wrote it.
>
> Stump and Martha were a sweet little country couple.
> Martha was a bit controlling and stump was a bit too much of a yes dear
> type.
> When they were young and newly married they paid a visit to the state fare
> where they would enjoy a day of seeing the sights and watching the people.
> Every year they would return to the fare, and they would see the airplane
> ride and
> this always fasenated Stump.
> He'd always turn to Martha and say, Martha, you see that thar airplane
ride?
> Well, I'd sure like to ride on that airplane.
> Martha's response every year was always the same.
> Now Stump, that thar airplane ride costs 10 dollars and 10 dollars is 10
> dollars.
> Stump would always just nod his head and shrug his shoulders and each year
> they left the fare without ever
> riding on the airplane.
> When Stump was 71 years old, he once again visited the state fare with his
> wife Martha same as always and as they passed the airplane ride, he made
his
> same old speech about how he'd sure like to ride on that thar airplane.
> Well, it just so happened that the man who had been running the airplane
> ride all those years was standing out by the airplane and he remembered
> Martha and stump
> because he would see them pass by every year and he had over heard there
> conversation.
> This time when he heard Martha respond in her same old way, now stump,
that
> thar airplane ride costs 10 dollars and 10 dollars is 10 dollars, he
> motioned to the couple to come over to him.
> They walked over and he said, folks, I'll make you a deal.
> If you will go up with me in my airplane, and not say a single word all
the
> time that we are in the air, I'll not charge you a thing.
> However, if you open your mouths and say even one word, it's the usual
price
> of 10 dollars.
> Well Stump loved this deal and Martha agreed to it so they went up.
> The old pilot did loopty loops, he rolled the airplane, he flew up side
down
> and anything else he could think of but when they landed on the ground,
the
> old couple hadn't said a thing.
> He turned to stump and said, you know, I've really got to hand it to you.
> I did everything I could come up with to try and make you folks yell out
and
> say something but I didn't hear a single word out of ya.
> There will be no charge for the ride.
> Stump said, well, I just almost said somethin.
> When Martha fell out the window.
> But, 10 dollars is 10
> dollars!
>
>
> Matt
>
> We marry according to our emotional health.
> Health marries health and unhealthy marries unhealthy.
>
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