An old joke.... And, it would be worth trying in Canberra if it was guaranteed to bring on more rain.
Of course, it also assumes that ministers are only good for a VERY limited number of things, mostly quite unrelated to religion. (There was a comment along these lines in the ABC radio program "The Spirit of Things" last night, when Rachel Kohn interviewed Anglican minister Peter Newall and he reported the comment of one parishioner when he was leaving one church where he's ministered. Repeated Thursday at 7.10pm and Friday at 4.05am, or online at http://www.abc.net.au/rn/relig/spirit/) Peter ______________________________________________________________ -----Original Message----- The Pastor was painting the church one Saturday to get it nice and spiffy for services on Sunday. He had two sides of the church done when he realized that he didn't have quite enough paint to finish. Since he was a long way from where he could buy more paint and he was running out of time, he decided to thin the paint down so he'd have enough to finish the job. After finishing the third wall, he realized he had to thin the paint even more to make it stretch. He finally finished and was standing back to admire his work when it started to rain. He watched in dismay while the paint ran down the windows and exposed the old color on the last two walls he had painted. Just then lightening struck followed by an ear splitting clap of thunder. From the sky came a loud voice saying, "Repaint, repaint, and thin no more." ------------------------------------------------------ - You are subscribed to the mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] and put in the message body 'unsubscribe insights-l' (ell, not one (1)) See: http://nsw.uca.org.au/insights-l-information.htm ------------------------------------------------------
