Prodigal: I have a joke for you while you work.

Me: I’m ready to laugh.

Prodigal: A priest, a minister, and a rabbit walk into a bar…..

The rabbit says, “I think I’m a typo.”

This is from the book The Power of a Woman’s Words by Sharon Jaynes

Jesus was a master listener. He never interrupted but asked good questions that helped people come to their own conclusions. He listened to the lame man lying by the pool, the leper languishing by the side of the road, the children clamoring around His feet, the desperate father pleading for his child’s sanity, the friend questioning His true identity, and His Father giving Him daily instructions.

Some of the most poignant moments of Jesus’ arrest were the silent ones. “He was oppressed and afflicted, yet he did not open his mouth; he was led like a lamb to the slaughter, and as a sheep before her shearers is silent, so he did not open his mouth” (Isaiah 53:7). And for you and me, some of our most powerful moments will be the ones in which we remain silent. Some of the most powerful words are the ones that are withheld.

But do not thou yield unto them: for there lie in wait for him of them more than forty men, which have bound themselves with an oath, that they will neither eat nor drink till they have killed him: and now are they ready, looking for a promise from thee. Acts 23:21

Jennifer Van Allen

www.theprodigalpig.com

www.faithincounseling.org