[quote=flyer][quote=scaredyclassic]I used to go to church with my wife every week when we first got married. Hated to be apart. She laughs when she thinks about the pained expression I’d make when she’d occasionally put a 20 in the basket. I still remember the discomfort. I wanted that 20 back. Why not a fiver baby? Please? Here’s 2 bucks. I learned the more I resisted and complained the more she gave. She was teaching me to obey…. Sometimes she’d let the basket just go by! Ahhh! A freebee! Thank you Jesus!. I was so crazy crazy crazy about that girl.
It was so fun taking my little wife to church!
Today I’d be OK w a 20. But 100 is pushing it. It might be worth it to assuage guilt during fund drives for public radio though..[/quote]
Great story, scaredy. Young love IS great.[/quote]
it is still prudent not to speak of the Father’s Day i went to church in bare feet, like Jesus might have done, in my mind, and got in an argument with the usher who demanded i be shod and who claimed i was presenting potential liability from being barefoot and basically threw a fit over my bare ffeet.
she did not like that. she told me so.
i myself felt they were out of line in giving me the boot for no shoes. seemed Jesusy to me to be barefoot. i thought i might even get a shout out from the Priest. Ha! what a nut..
laibility?! how am I more likely to have an injury than the women teetering on heels? my feet are tough. i look out for obstacles.
they also said it was ‘disrespectful”.
harrumph!
WKOFWJW, i said?
what?
what kind of footwear would Jesus Wear?
would you go to synagogue like that? she retorted….
well, no, but they don’t glorify being downtrodden and the simple minimalist lifestyle, i replied.
dress shoes for men, they replied. dress up nicely.
i guess i was looking for an exit plan to not be invited back.
