Gregory was singing in the bathtub, but once I started recording, he just wanted to talk about his favorite kind of Indian flatbread.
Sometimes when Gary and I read scriptures together, I'll read the whole time, but I'll pause randomly and make Gary try to fill in the next words.
For example, we were reading in Matthew 25 the other day about the parable of the talents. Jody: "Thou good and--" Gary: "faithful servant," Jody: "thou hast been faithful over--" Gary: "a few things," Jody: "now I will make thee ruler over--" Gary: "many things." Sometimes Gary doesn't get the words verbatim, but when he gets the gist of it, I let it go without correcting him. Well, after the parable, it was talking about Christ separating the sheep from the goats, and in verse 34, it says, "Then shall the King say unto them on his right hand, Come, ye blessed of my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world." We got to verse 41, and this is how it went down: Jody: "Then shall he say also unto them on the left hand--" Gary: "Go to hell." The actual words said: "depart from me, ye cursed, into everlasting fire, prepared for the devil and his angels." I decided Gary's version was close enough. We moved on to verse 42. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- In related news, here are two jokes: 1. What do you get when you cross an elephant with a rhino? Elephino! 2. A man dies and arrives at the pearly gates. Saint Peter says to him, "Upon reviewing your life's works, it doesn't look like you did much good. Can you think of anything that might qualify you for heaven?" The man replies, "Well, I did pay five cents in tithing once." Saint Peter considers this and says, "I don't know, man, that's really not much. Can you think of anything else good that you've done?" The man thinks hard, but can't come up with anything. "I'll have to check with the boss, then," says Peter. Peter goes into heaven and finds God. "Hey," he says, "there's a man out there who wants to come into heaven, but the only good thing he did in his life was pay five cents in tithing. What should I do?" God thinks about it for a minute, then says, "Give him his nickel and tell him to go to hell." Do you ever see a headline that says, "World's Oldest Person Dies"?
I always stop and think, "Huh, I wonder why we don't see that headline more often. Doesn't seem like that would happen every other week?" |
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