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One of my sons memorized the beginning of Psalm 1 and proudly told his father,
“Blessed is the man who walks not on the counters of the wicked,
Nor stands in the way of dinner,
Nor sits in the seat of golfers.”
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I hate to say for how many years I misunderstood “the peace that passeth understanding.”
I looked forward to the day I would understand things.
Imagine my surprise when I realized that “pass” there did not mean,”pass around or hand out,” but “surpass”!
Being Jewish, growing up in the 1950’s, when we sang Christian songs, including Christmas Carols in school, I remember Hark the harold angels sing. (I had a cousin named harold. We three kings of orien tar., Round yon version, my knives have seen the glory.
Sodpoodle,
I saved these with several others contributed by you, taking it on Faith that you shared these as well. They still bring a smile when read :-)
If not you, I apologize to the one who actually shared them.
ALL MEN / ALL GIRLS
When my daughter, Kelli, said her bedtime prayers, she would bless every family member, every friend, and every animal (current and past). For several weeks, after we had finished the nightly prayer, Kelli would say, “And all girls.”
This soon became part of her nightly routine, to include this closing. My curiosity got the best of me and I asked her, “Kelli, why do you always add the part about all girls?”
Her response, “Because everybody always finish their prayers by saying ‘All Men’!”
SAY A PRAYER
Little Johnny and his family were having Sunday dinner at his Grandmother’s house. Everyone was seated around the table as the food was being served. When Little Johnny received his plate, he started eating right away. “Johnny! Please wait until we say our prayer,” said his mother.
“I don’t need to,” the boy replied.
“Of course, you do” his mother insisted. “We always say a prayer before eating at our house.”
“That’s at our house.” Johnny explained. “But this is Grandma’s house and she knows how to cook.”
Once again, thanks for the smiles.
From my childhood: The Battle Hymn of the Republic - He is trampling out the village where the grapes are wrapped and stored.
Saying the Pledge, I mangled one of the words...
“... with liverty and justice for all”
And part of the lyrics to “My Country Tis of Thee” got turned into this:
“...of the icing.”
When my mom was teaching me to say the Hail Mary, I felt things needed to be more equitably distributed and so I began it, "Hail Mary, full of Grace and Gatti."
I once heard a parish priest tell a story about a Catholic elementary school class who was making Christmas drawings. One boy drew a nativity scene that had all the usual identifiable characters, the baby Jesus, Mary, Joseph, shepherds, three kings, angels and one apparently out of place extremely obese man. When asked who the unexpected character was, the boy answered, "Round John Virgin." :-)
WE were flying back to Dallas from the UK with our restive boys years ago. They finally settled down and put on their earphones, and giggled the rest of the trip. The British comedian was talking about his childhood, going to church, and wondering about Gladly, the cross eyed bear!
They still laugh about that 20 years later!
“Harold be thy name”
I also thought the Lord’s Prayer said, “And lead a snot into temptation” !!!
I never could understand it. It seemed so aggressive compared to the rest of it. Plus to our family we understood that “snot” was a cuss word that no one should say, so what was it doing in a prayer we had to know ??!
In did make be hope I would never be a snot, however ...