Gardening 101

I feel sort of bad giving him a hard time because he is super sick with pneumonia right now, but this one is too good to pass up.....

So, you all know that the Rev is, well, a reverend, you know a pastor. He preaches about 50 sermons and teaches about the same number of Bible studies each year. Now, put somebody in charge of speaking publicly that many times in a year and a slip up is bound to occur every now and then....

This past Sunday's sermon involved an illustration about gardening. The Rev was trying to point out to our rural congregation that he was not a city boy and had in fact been raised in the country, farming and gardening. I know what he was trying to say, I know the point he was trying to make....but right in the middle of his story, he said "I've spent plenty of time with a ho(e)".......I immediately had to look at the floor because I was getting tickled, and several others were as well. He paused and I cringed hoping he wasn't going to acknowledge it, just keep going like it didn't happen, thankfully he let it pass, but we weren't even finished with service for a full minute before I busted out laughing and I wasn't alone. He has taken his fair share of ribbing about it this week, but he's a pretty good sport.

It was almost as funny as the time he was preaching about Lot, got tongue-tied and the phrase "pitching a tent" came out as pinching something that you don't want to even think about pinching in church.....I'll give you a minute on that one....

And people think church is boring......