Morning Medicine

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What Happened?

One Sunday afternoon, my father had had just about enough of
his four-year-old grandson's antics. He firmly put him on a
chair and told him to sit still.

My son didn't budge, but after a minute he asked, "What
happened, Grandpa? Did you have a bad day at church?"

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Resurrection

A pastor was speaking to a group of second graders about the
resurrection of Jesus when one student asked, "What did
Jesus say right after He came out of the grave?"

The pastor explained that the Gospels do not tell us what He
said.

The hand of one little girl shot up. "I know what He said.
He said, 'Tah-dah!'"

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When my youngest son was three years old, one of his finches died. It was winter so we couldn't bury the bird, so I flushed it down the toilet. I didn't realize that he had seen me do this until I heard him crying behind me. Trying to make him feel better, I told him that his bird was with God now.

He stopped crying, looked at me a bit bewildered, and asked, "God is in the toilet?"

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Thirsty

While eating dinner at the dinner table, Jay, 5, stopped and
said, "Mommy, sometimes when I drink water, it goes in to my
heart. But, that's OK because sometimes God gets thirsty, too!"

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Living Inside

After bedtime prayers Elizabeth asked, "Where is God?"

Kathryn replied, "He lives in Heaven, but when we're Christians,
God gives us the Holy Spirit to live inside us, too. That's kind
of like a little part of God."

Elizabeth continued, "With the germs?"

Kathryn said, "What?"

Elizabeth explained, "I learned on Curious George that we have
germs living inside our body. They are like little things that
sing and play banjos. Is the Holy Spirit living with them?"

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The church choir was putting on a car wash to raise money to pay their expenses for a special trip. They made a large sign, CAR WASH FOR CHOIR TRIP, and on the given Saturday business was very good. But by two o'clock the skies clouded and the rain poured and there were hardly any customers.
Finally, one of the girl washers had an idea. She printed a very large poster which said, WE WASH (then an arrow pointing skyward) GOD RINSES. Business boomed!

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Onions

The minister brought his 4 year old daughter to bed and asked
what she would like to pray about.

Promptly she answered, "Onions."

So they prayed about onions.

The next morning, the Reverend asked her why she wanted to pray
about onions.

"Because you said in your sermon Sunday that we should pray for
things we don't like."

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A KITTEN

Dwight Nelson recently told a true story about a pastor. He had a kitten that climbed up a tree in his backyard and then was afraid to come down. The pastor coaxed, offered warm milk, etc. The kitty would not come down. The tree was not sturdy enough to climb, so the pastor decided that if he tied a rope to his car and drove away so that the tree bent down, he could then reach up and get the kitten. He did all this, checking his progress in the car frequently, then figured if he went just a little bit further, the tree would be bent sufficiently for him to reach the kitten.

But as he moved a little further forward....the rope broke. The tree went "boing!" and the kitten instantly sailed through the air-out of sight. The pastor felt terrible. He walked all over the neighborhood asking people if they'd seen a little kitten. No. Nobody had seen a stray kitten. So he prayed, "Lord, I just commit this kitten to Your keeping," and went on about his business.

A few days later he was at the grocery store, and met one of his church members. He happened to look into her shopping cart and was amazed to see cat food. Now this woman was a cat hater and everyone knew it, so he asked her, "Why are you buying cat food when you hate cats so much?"

She replied, "You won't believe this," and told him how her little girl had been begging her for a cat, but she kept refusing. Then a few days before, the child had begged again, so the mom finally told her little girl, "Well, if God gives you a cat, I'll let you keep it." (You can see where this is going). She told the pastor, "I watched my child go out in the yard, get on her knees, and ask God for a cat. And really, Pastor, you won't believe this, but I saw it with my own eyes. A kitten suddenly came flying out of the blue sky, with its paws spread out, and landed right in front of her."

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Prayers

Years ago when my two girls were small, they were taught how
to say their blessing before eating their meal. One night as
I was busy scurrying around the kitchen, I told them both to
say their blessings without me.

I took a moment to watch them as they both squeezed their eyes
tightly shut over folded hands. As my 4-year-old finished, her
3-year-old sister kept on praying.

Another minute or two passed before she lifted her head, looked
at her plate, and in an indignant voice said, "Hey! My peas are
still here!"

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Playing Ball

A five-year-old boy surprised his father one day by saying,
"I guess I'll go outdoors and play ball with God."

"Tell me, how do you play ball with God?" asked the father.

"Oh, it's not hard at all," said the boy. "I just throw the
ball up and God throws it back down to me."

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I just wanted to share something with you - One night when my daughter was 5 years old and I was tucking her in bed and praying with her, she had a tummy ache. She said, "Well, that shouldn't be hard for Jesus to heal my tummy. He's in my heart so He doesn't have far to go!"

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Gas

Sister Mary was truly a religious woman. Besides for her
duties as a nun, she was also very active in various
hospitals visiting sick patients and taking care of all
their needs. So it was no surprise that one day when she
ran out of gas, the only container she could find to put
the gas into was a bedpan.

Sister Mary happily walked two blocks to the closest gas
station filled up the bedpan with gas and headed back to
her car.

Luck would have it that as Sister Mary started tipping the
gas into the fuel tank, the traffic light turned red and
she had quite a large audience witnessing the spectacle.

Just when she finished pouring in the last drops of gas a
Baptist pastor opened up his window and hollered, “I swear!
If that car starts I’m becoming a Catholic!”

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Prayer

My four-year-old likes to say the blessing at mealtimes,
usually repeating the same short prayer:
"Thank you, God, for this gracious food. Amen."

One evening, however, he thanked the Lord for the birds,
the trees, each of his friends, and asked God to watch over
his family and help them to be good.

I was thrilled that he was finally praying from the heart.

But after the "Amen," he took a spoonful of stew, gasped,
then dropped his spoon into the bowl.

"I should have said a longer prayer, my food is still too hot!"

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Prayer

They walked in tandem, each of the ninety-three students
filing into the already crowded auditorium.

With rich maroon gowns flowing and the traditional caps,
they looked almost as grown up as they felt.

Dads swallowed hard behind broad smiles, and moms freely
brushed away tears.

This class would not pray during the commencements ----- not
by choice, but because of a recent court ruling prohibiting
it.

The principal and several students were careful to stay
within the guidelines allowed by the ruling.

They gave inspirational and challenging speeches, but no one
mentioned divine guidance and no one asked for blessings on
the graduates or their families.

The speeches were nice, but they were routine... ....until
the final speech received a standing ovation.

A solitary student walked proudly to the microphone.

He stood still and silent for just a moment, and then, it
happened.

All 92 students, every single one of them, suddenly
SNEEZED!!!!

The student on stage simply looked at the audience and said,
"GOD BLESS YOU, each and every one of you!"

And he walked off stage...

The audience exploded into applause.

The graduating class had found a unique way to invoke God's
blessing on their future with or without the court's
approval!

Isn't this a wonderful story? Pass it on to all your
friends......... and GOD BLESS YOU!!!!

In God We Trust, United We Stand.