Sunday, January 17, 2010

Who Was the Quietest Man in the Bible?

Comma has a CD with several Bible stories on it. He handed it to me this week and asked me to tell him which stories were on it. I read the list of stories to him and finished with, "... and the last one is about Paul."
He replied, "What about Silence?"

(He was referring to Paul and Silas in the Philippian jail, a story he is familiar with from a favorite book)

Wednesday, January 6, 2010

It's All a Matter of Perspective

Today when leaving the gym I walked up to what I thought was my vehicle and pressed the button to open the door. When it didn't open, I initially thought my key fob thing was broken, but then I glanced in the window and noticed that this vehicle had different kids' books scattered on the seat than the ones I'd left in mine. A quick check of the license plate confirmed that this wasn't my car and a little further search led us to the right vehicle, down a few cars in the same row. Because I had been in such close proximity, I had been opening and closing the door on my vehicle as I tried to open the one that looked like mine. It was closing as we walked up to it and I remarked, "Wow, that car looked just like ours!" Comma replied, matter-of-factly, "No it didn't. It had different tires."
M.E.: It did?
Comma: (a little impatiently) Yes, why didn't you look at the tires?
M.E.: Well, the tires are down by the ground, so they're not the first thing I see. You notice them because you're shorter and they're right where you're looking.
Comma: (pretty disgusted with me by this point) Well, you should have asked me. I could have told you!