by Richard Long,
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Archive for the ‘Humour’ Category
Innocent Prayers from Kids
November 8, 2009“When all else fails …”
January 24, 2009
by Richard Long
Prayer made the headlines today in the Ottawa Citizen.
“When all else fails” was the headline for an article about how after 45 days of the bus strike there was a prayer service at St. Joseph’s RC church to pray about the problem.
Several observations
1. This is the first time the media realized that people are praying about it.
(I’m sure that hundreds of thousands of prayers have gone up to heaven about this strike from even before it started. We had our own dedicated prayer time on this issue a couple of weeks ago at NHOP.) We just didn’t call the media.
2. It shows how the secular media thinks about prayer. It’s an action of last resort. “When all else fails …” A final, low-odds gamble. “Heh, we’ve tried everything else …”
Most Christians know prayer as the first response to a crisis. At least we should!
Some seasonal humour
December 13, 2008by Richard Long,
There are a number of Christian humour websites that I visit from time to time. A new one has come online recently.
Here’s a sample …
Bad Mom: Christmas Traditions - Written by: Caron Guillo
My kids love keeping the family traditions alive, which generally means I’m expected to work my tail off during the holidays. But even family traditions morph over the years. These are a few of my favorites.
Christmas Cookies
Early Years: Sift the flour, break the eggs, and roll the dough. Make a frantic hunt for Christmas cookie cutters; then find them in the cabinet above the refrigerator. Get whacked by the whirling ceiling fan while climbing off the step ladder. Mix eight colors of icing before oven timer goes off. Dress the kids in oversized aprons and let them loose with the decorations, giving tips on using toothpicks to outline fine details and where to place candy buttons, eyes and reindeer paraphernalia.
Middle Years: Buy refrigerated cookie dough, a tub of frosting and candy sprinkles. Slice the cookies. Color the frosting red and green before the timer goes off. Tell the kids the sprinkles are festive and leave the room.
Later Years: Buy Christmas cookies.
