So we were working through the different kinds of prayer we've talked about in our Experiments With Prayer series (see www.experimentswithprayer.blogspot.com) and we came to silence.
We had just finished some musical worship, everything is very reverent, and we stop playing all the instruments, and go entirely silent.
count one-mississippi, two-mississippi, three-BRRRRRIIIIINNNNNGGGGG!!!!!!!!!!
Yup. Cell phone. Cheeriest, loudest ring EVER. And the owner was enjoying the prayer so much, it took her an eternal moment to realize it was her phone ringing. So she dove for it, hung it up, shoved it back in her purse, back into silent prayer....
one-mississippi, two-
BRRRRRRRRRRIIIIIIIIIIINNNNNNNNNNGGGGGGGGG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
That's right. It rang again.
It was just too much for my funny bone. I leaned into the mic, and quietly said, "Maybe God is phoning us."
It was a moment I couldn't pass up -the timing was perfect! We all laughed, and then moved on to the next kind of prayer. (I phoned the cell phone owner today, to ask if I could laugh online about it, without offending her, and she said, "Oh sure," so I'm sharing the laugh with you!)
And on another note...
I went to get a slice today from Pizza Pizza. The woman who works there really likes me, I don't know why, so today we reached a new level of conversation.
Today, she asked if I was gaining some weight in the face. I said, "No...I don't think so."
She said, "Hmm. Are you sure? Maybe it's just the hair."
I said, "Maybe".
She said, "Are you pregnant?"
"Nope," I said.
"I'm not saying you're fat," she said.
"That's OK," I said. "I didn't think you were. Must be the hair."
"Yup," she said. "Must be the hair."
ROFL!!!!!
