And it's true.
Go ahead.
Play with it a bit.
It's almost spooky.
I just tried "House of the Rising Sun" and it worked.
But it felt wrong.
Yeah, let's forget that one.
The comedian mentioned a song that will really get stuck in your mind. And you've heard it probably more than once.
The "Gilligan's Island" song.
No lie. Try it.
Yeah.
Weird, eh?
The idea of those great hymn lyrics matching up with the banality of a sitcom theme song is a little disconcerting.
The two just don't go together.
Huh.
It must have been that same thing that bugged the synagogue leaders when Jesus healed that guy with the bum hand on the Sabbath.
And IN THE SYNAGOGUE.
And ON THE SABBATH!
And did I mention it was ON THE SABBATH, the day of rest and no work - even if was working miracles.
I met this guy, let's call him "B", while having coffee with his friend who was a friend of mine.
"B" used to be a co-pilot on a Huey helicopter back in Viet Nam.
They were coming back from a pickup-&-delivery when the worst happened.
They took heavy fire.
HEAVY fire.
They were going down, fast & hard.
The pilot panicked and froze.
"B", as he put it, had an inspirational insight from God.
(He found out much later that his Grandma woke up in the middle of the night and really felt she had to pray for him.
At that EXACT moment.
Praise God for grandmas, eh?)
They taught the helicopter pilots to NEVER do this one thing because it'll ruin the taxpayer's chopper.
(It involved yanking this to full power, pushing that to the max, then doing this thing - all of which mulches the stuff that makes a helicopter fly.)
But since the chopper was more brick than aircraft at that point, "B" didn't see why it would really matter.
So he did it.
And it slowed them down enough to where every one walked away.
Some limped more than others.
But everyone walked away.
Back at the base, the pilot tried to bring "B" up on charges for doing that thing they had been trained not to do.
Even though it saved his life.
Huh.
From donkey carts to helicopters, ya would think the folks drivin' 'em would've changed.
Yeah.
I haven't either.
And now that I'm looking at things from HIS perspective, my favorite church notions are kinda taking a hit.
Huh.
He's more interested in the people IN the helicopter than the helicopter itself...or the synagogues....or the churches.
And He really loves those prayin' grandmas.