LOL, Kathy!  Poor guy!  And poor Greg and congregation.  I wonder how the
Lord was dealing with it.  I'll bet he was thinking what a precious child
of mine, and He smiled with His sweet patience.  Too bad we can't always
have that attitude.  <sigh>

Helen

At 03:04 PM 1/15/04 -0500, you wrote:
>Helen, You're really getting into this!  What fun!
>
>You know, I do have a funny story to relate about proverbs as well.   At
>our church we will often have someone be willing to offer a prayer for
>Greg before he preaches, no comment Phil, (GRIN,) and the prayer is
>usually accompanied with a verse of scripture.  Well, the lady who kind
>of heads this up asked this really sweet old guy to offer the prayer one
>Sunday and she asked him to also share the verse, Proverbs 19: 23 which
>reads, "The fear of the Lord leads to life:  then one rests content,
>untouched by trouble."  Well, this guy misunderstood and thought that he
>had been asked to read Proverbs chapters 19 through 23 and so he
>proceeded to do just that.  This guy could hardly stand and by the end
>hewas shaking all over.  He'd stop every once and a while and make a
>comment like, "I don't know why I'm reading all this," but then would
>pick up where he had left off and keep going.  People started trying to
>assure him that he had read enough and that it really would be okay if he
>gave up  and sat down, but being a full fledged Mainer, there was no way
>that he was going to backdown from his commitment.  Finally, we all just
>gave up and started praying for God to give him the strength to make it
>through.  This gentleman is really failing healthwise right now, but
>every time I think of those four chapters, they have become rather
>special to me for a rather unusual reason.
>Kathy
>
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