Emphasis Preaching Journal

(L, P)
Many a satire has been written concerning Adam and Eve. One of my favorites involves a conversation that goes something like this between Adam and Eve.

Adam: "What's wrong with long grass blowing in the wind? I think it looks nice."

Eve: "It would look nicer, shorter."

Adam: "There's no way for it to grow short. If God wanted it short, he would have grown it short."

Eve: "God didn't think about lawns. I think it would look better short."

Adam: "It's impossible. There's no way. Why, I'd have to cut every single blade of grass!"

Eve: "What's wrong with that?"

Adam: "I'd have to invent a lawn mower."

Eve: "Well, Adam, (coyly) you do want supper, don't you?"

Bone of our bones and flesh of our flesh, yes. Also, our labor of love and our love of labor. We are so dependent upon each other, like it or not, that the extinction of the species would be possible in a half-century quarrel! We, man and woman alike, have assumed tasks of much greater magnitude than what would have been attempted without each other. "It is good," says the Lord, "to do more than you think you can do."
-- Bansemer