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Painting the Church
« on: January 15, 2015, 03:40:00 pm »
Painting  the Church
       
There was a Scottish painter named Smokey MacGregor who was very
interested in making a penny where he could, so he often thinned down
his paint to make it go a wee bit further .
 

 
 
 
As it happened, he got away with this for some time, but eventually
the local church decided to do a big restoration job on the outside
of one of their biggest buildings.
 
 
Smokey put in a bid and, because his price was so low, he got the job. 
 
So he set about erecting the scaffolding and  setting up the planks,
and buying the paint and yes, I am sorry to say, thinning it down with
turpentine......... 
 
Well, Smokey was up on the scaffolding, painting away, the job nearly
completed, when suddenly there was a horrendous clap of thunder,
the sky opened and the rain poured down washing the thinned paint
from all over the church and knocking Smokey clear off the scaffold to
land on the lawn among the gravestones, surrounded by telltale puddles
of the thinned and useless paint.
 
 

 
 
 
 
Smokey was no fool. He knew this was a judgment from the Almighty,
so he got down on his knees and cried:
 
 
"Oh God, Oh God, forgive me; what should I do?" 
 
And from the thunder, a mighty voice   spoke.   
 
 
 
 
 

(you're going to love this)   
 

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
"Repaint! Repaint!   And thin no more!"   

 


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Re: Painting the Church
« Reply #1 on: January 15, 2015, 04:27:47 pm »
 :D Love You Ef!  :D
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Re: Painting the Church
« Reply #2 on: January 15, 2015, 04:39:59 pm »
 :laugh: :laugh: :laugh:
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Re: Painting the Church
« Reply #3 on: January 15, 2015, 06:34:47 pm »
 Amen to that.

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Re: Painting the Church
« Reply #4 on: January 15, 2015, 09:40:15 pm »
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Re: Painting the Church
« Reply #5 on: January 16, 2015, 01:07:29 am »
LOL  SHould have seen that one coming but I didnt.
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Re: Painting the Church
« Reply #6 on: January 16, 2015, 05:47:16 am »
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Re: Painting the Church
« Reply #7 on: January 16, 2015, 10:07:09 am »
LOL!!!
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Re: Painting the Church
« Reply #8 on: January 16, 2015, 06:21:48 pm »
Told my father that joke this morning about 9:00.  He just called 20 minutes ago...still laughing!  Good one ef!  Ted
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Re: Painting the Church
« Reply #9 on: January 18, 2015, 11:30:05 am »
Best one I've heard in a while!   :laugh:
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Re: Painting the Church
« Reply #10 on: January 23, 2015, 08:01:00 pm »
That's a good one efmesch! I will have to pass that one along to my Pastor.

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Re: Painting the Church
« Reply #11 on: January 24, 2015, 07:10:10 am »
Amen. Good one Efmesch.  :laugh:
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