My sponsor has a great and appropriate sense of humour.
I was talking with him and raised what I thought was a serious problem.
He replied with a joke. I thought I would share it with you. Here it is.
A husband was golfing with his family’s doctor. As they walked down the fairway to the fourth hole, he turned to his doctor and said, “I think that my wife has a hearing problem. Can you recommend a good hearing clinic?”
The doctor thought for a moment. “I don’t think that demanding that she go to a hearing clinic is going to be a good start to that conversation. Let me help. First, try an informal hearing test. If the informal test shows a serious problem, call me. Then I can take it up with her on her next appointment. That way, you are not in the line of fire.”
“How would I do an informal hearing test?” he asked.
The M.D. talked as he walked, “A person with average hearing should hear a question asked at a normal voice between 20 and 30 feet away. As I imagine your house, the front door is about 40 feet away from the kitchen, your living room is about 30 feet, and your dining room is about 15 feet from the kitchen. So, when she is in the kitchen, ask a question at the front door. If she doesn’t answer, move to the living room and try again. If there is still no answer, repeat in the dining room. Worst case, stand in the doorway to the kitchen. When she answers, you will know how bad her hearing is.”
Both agreed it was a good plan.
He went home. He knew his wife was in the kitchen.
From the front door, he called out, “What’s for supper?”
Silence.
He stepped into the living room and again, “What’s for supper?”
Silence.
He moved to the dining room, “What’s for supper?”
Silence, still.
Now concerned, he stepped into the kitchen entrance and repeated, “What’s for supper?”
His wife turned and testily replied, “For the fourth time… lasagna!”
I laughed at my sponsor’s joke; it was a good one. And very appropriate to the problem I had raised.
Oh… what was the problem I had posed to my sponsor? I had whined about unanswered prayers. I said, “I am not getting answers to my prayers; I don’t think God hears me.”
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