The other night we went out to dinner with about a dozen friends. As is often the case, there were a couple of conversations going on simultaneously. At my end of the table, I was looking for a little help. “I still have to write a Christmas column. Anyone have any ideas?”
There was a brief moment of silence and then from the other end of the table, from another conversation, someone said, brightly, “I always eat olives when I drink beer.”
Everybody laughed.
Then someone else looked at me and said, “Olives grow in the Holy Land.”
Everybody laughed again.
Well, yeah, I suppose that’s true, but not even I am likely to try to write a column tying together olives, beer, and Jesus. I don’t know who could write that column, but I’d be willing to bet they never taught Sunday school in a Methodist church.
That part of Christmas can slip my mind. ... – I already had the instructions.
“…I bring you good news of great joy that will be for all the people…”
Can’t get much clearer than that.
More from Brent:
it’s the shortest verse in the Bible, and maybe that means something. Maybe we aren’t meant to weep all that much.
I’m sure Jesus did weep. But I bet he laughed even more.
And he probably ate olives.
Everyone knows the shortest verse in the Bible, "Jesus wept." But like Brent, I think we often miss the other side of it. I am certain Jesus laughed, maybe a lot.
That is one of the things I have heard mentioned by folks visiting Chilton's. The food is good, the service is OK, but folks don't go many places where they hear laughter like you often do there. I think that is the difference between a good and a not so good family gathering. Laughter is a sign it is good.
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Merry Christmas Mike.
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