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No Place for Joy in Church!

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In church the other Sunday I was intent on a small child who was turning around smiling at everyone. He wasn’t gurgling, spitting, humming, kicking, tearing the hymnals, or rummaging through his mother’s handbag. He was just smiling. 

Finally, his mother jerked him about and in a stage whisper that could be heard in a little theater off Broadway said, “Stop grinning! You’re in a church!”

With that, she gave him a belt on his hind side and as the tears rolled down his cheeks added, “that’s better,”and returned to her prayers. 

I wanted to grab this child with the tear-stained face close to me and tell him about my God. The happy God. The smiling God, the God who had to have a sense of humor to have created the likes of us.

By Erma Bombeck

Is YOUR God a happy God, a smiling God, a God who had to have a sense of humor to have created the likes of us?

WHAT WE NEED IS GOD, NOT WHATEVER QUICK FIX WE’RE LOOKING FOR!!

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