Dear Pastor Jim:

Hi Pastor Jim. I wanted to talk with you about your sermon last Sabbath. I appreciated the sermon and the general gist of it. I found it very insightful and interesting. However, I need to take issue with you on one minor thing and maybe seek your guidance. You see, Sis was listening to your sermon, as well. She is quite a precocious 10 year old and seems to have misunderstood the point you were trying to make.

I was asking my family for help in straightening up before company arrived. I was busily delegating tasks with the admonition that the sooner they completed their task, the sooner they could go play (Rob included!). Little Miss Sis pipes up from the back seat, “Mom, Pastor Jim said that it’s the wife and mom’s job to clean the house. You’re the wife and mom so YOU need to clean the house, not us.”

Well. If you know me at all you know I responded less than favorably to this “opinion”.

Don’t worry, I set her on the straight and narrow. I told her that if that were true, then it was MY job to make sure SHE was being raised up to be the Godly wife and mother that Pastor Jim was talking about, so she could do an EXTRA chore just to get her a head start on that journey.

I know that she was grateful for your sermon last Sabbath and for the knowledge it imparted on her. Perhaps maybe your next message could be on the taming of the tongue?

Yours Truly,

heidi

*wink*