Tuesday, September 15, 2009

Pray Before You Scratch

Jeremy and I traveled to a wedding in Iowa not too long ago. In addition to ourselves, Jeremy's parents, sister and brother-in-law made the trip. While stopped at an Exxon station on the way out of town we picked up scratch-off lottery tickets. Huddled together around the door to the minivan, we all scratched in search of small fortunes.

While we were immersed in this task, a woman with a shirt reading BRANSON walked up to us and inquired rather kindly, "Are y'all having a morning prayer meeting?"

Aha! So THAT'S where we went wrong! You've got to pray BEFORE you scratch!

We are an honest bunch, so we admitted that no, we were only engaged in a morning gambling meeting.

At least we did it as a family though, right?

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