Sunday, July 06, 2014 • Vol. 16--No. 351 • 2 of 29

Have a blessed day; now fire me if you dare!

• I must confess to a severe case of poverty. I never took a vow of poverty; it

The Lighter Side
Rev. James L. Snyder

just seems to have worked out that way for me. I am so poor the church mice have packed their bags and moved on. If I knew where they moved to, I might join them.
• Being poor can have its advantages, but I have yet to run across any.
• I am so poor I am not able to pay attention, especially when watching some television program with the Gracious Mistress of the Parsonage. This has caused no small problem with my wife. We love an evening of unwinding before the TV watching some of our favorite programs. I must confess those programs are getting less and less each year. Soon we are going to have to go back to reading books.
• Together we will be watching a program, and when I say "we," I do it with certain modifications. My wife will get up and go to the kitchen for something and when she returns, she asks me a question, "What happened?"
• I look at her with one of my infamous quizzical looks and respond, "Where?"

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