Credit for digital music in the Words from the Well series: "Come Fill My Heart" by Elton Smith, Larry Holder and Steve Israel/Songs of Praise
Welcome to Tickles 'n Truth A Fun, Faith 'n Funny Bone Feature
A Daily Dose of Rib-Splitting Fun and Body-building Faith at Peggie's Place!
Tuesday, June 26, 2001
"This is the day which the Lord hath made; we will rejoice and be glad... (Psalm 118:24)."
Have you got a funny bone or two? Can fun connect with faith? You'd better believe it...."Funny Bone Faith" sees humor--AND faith--in the tough times and with God's help, smiles through tears as it triumphs in a Lord who brings joy and laughter to our lives--daily! Enjoy the fun and inspiration--and strengthen YOUR "Funny Bone Faith" right here--today!
Please note: Humor pieces are meant to be funny - no offense is meant with regard to age, sex, race, religion, occupation or any other topic. It is simply a way of laughing at ourselves; please do not take the humor personal or offensive.
"A merry heart doeth good like a medicine... (Proverbs 17:22)."
SAINT PETER--AND BILL GATES!?!
Bill Gates died and went to Heaven, where Saint Peter
showed him to his house; a beautiful 20-room house, with grounds
and a tennis court. Gates was pleased, and spent many months
enjoying the amenities of Heaven.
One day, he was enjoying one of Heaven's many fine parks, when
he ran into a man dressed in a fine tailored suit.
"That is a nice suit, my friend," said Gates. "Where did you get
it?"
"Actually," the man replied, "I was given a hundred of these
when I got here. I've been treated really well. I got a mansion
on a hill overlooking a beautiful valley, with a huge five-hundred
acre estate, a golf course, and three Rolls Royces."
"Were you a Pope, or a doctor healing the sick?" asked Gates.
"No," said his new friend, "Actually, I was the captain of the
Titanic."
Hearing this made Gates so angry that he immediately stalked
off to find St. Peter.
Cornering Peter, he told him about the man he had just met,
saying, "How could you give me a paltry new house, while you're
showering new cars, a mansion, and fine suits on the Captain of
the Titanic? I invented the Windows operating system! Why does
he deserve better??!!!!"
"Yes, but we use Windows," replied Peter, "and the Titanic only
crashed once."
"...building up yourselves on your most holy faith... (Jude 20)."
A Cab Driver's Story
Because I drive the night shift, my cab is a moving confessional. I encounter
people whose lives amaze me, ennoble me, make me laugh and weep. One
passenger I remember well. I was responding to a call in a quiet part of
town. When I arrived at 2:30 a.m., the building was dark except for a single
light in a ground floor window. Unless a situation smelled of danger, I
always went to the door. This passenger might be someone who needs my
assistance, I reasoned to myself. So I walked to the door and knocked.
"Just a minute," answered a frail, elderly voice. A small woman in her 80s
stood before me, wearing a print dress and a pillbox hat with a veil pinned
on it, like somebody out of a 1940s movie. Her only luggage was a small nylon
suitcase. "Would you carry my bag out to the car?" she said.
She thanked me when we got in the cab, gave me an address, and then asked,
"Could you drive through downtown? I'm in no hurry. I'm on my way to a
hospice. I don't have any family left," she continued. "The doctor says I
don't have very long."; I quietly reached over and shut off the meter. "What
route would you like me to take?" I asked.
For the next two hours, we drove through the city, seeing the neighborhood
where she and her husband had lived as newlyweds, and a furniture warehouse
that had been a ballroom where she had gone dancing. Sometimes she'd ask me
to stop at a particular building, and sit staring into the darkness, saying
nothing. With the first hint of sun creasing the horizon, she said, "I'm
tired. Let's go now."
We drove in silence to the address she had given me. Two orderlies came out
to the cab as soon as we pulled up. I opened the trunk and took the small
suitcase to the door. She had already been placed in a wheelchair.
"How much do I owe you?" she asked, reaching into her purse. "Nothing," I
said. "You have to make a living," she answered. "There are other
passengers," I responded. Almost without thinking, I bent and gave her a hug.
She held onto me tightly. "You gave an old woman a little moment of joy"--
she said. "Thank you."
On a quick review, I don't think that I have done anything more important in
my life. People do not remember exactly what you did, or what you said, but
they will always remember how you made them feel.
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