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Me: Are you having fun?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Prodigal: Yes!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Me: Here is something else to make you laugh.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This is from Laugh Again by Charles Swindoll<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I have become a little older since I saw you last, and a few changes have come into my life since then. Frankly, I become quite a frivolous old gal. I am seeing five gentleman every day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As soon as I wake up, Will Power helps me get out of bed. Then I go to see John. Then Charlie Horse comes along, and when he is here he takes a lot of my time and attention. When he leaves Arthur Ritis shows up and stays the rest of the day. He doesn’t like to stay in one place very long, so he takes me from joint to joint. After such a busy day I’m really tired and glad to go to bed with Ben Gay. What a life!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

P.S. The preacher came to call the other day. He said at my age I should be thinking about the hearafter. I told him, “Oh, I do all the time. No matter where I am–in the parlor, upstairs, in the kitchen, or down in the basement–I ask myself what am I here after?”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Micah 6:1<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hear ye now what the LORD saith; Arise, contend thou before the mountains, and let the hills hear thy voice.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Jennifer Van Allen<\/p>\n\n\n\n

www.theprodigalpig.co<\/p>\n\n\n\n

www.faithincounseling.org<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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