Pain
A woman named Jill stood up at her church's Testimony Meeting
or as some churches call it, "Cry Sunday", one Sunday morning, took the
microphone from one of the church ushers and bared her soul to the enrapt congregation:
"I want to tell you about the awful accident that my husband, Jim, has suffered this
past month. He was riding his bike, lost control, ran off the highway and hit a
tree. He was rushed to the hospital, and could have died, but thank the Lord,
all he suffered was a broken scrotum."
The congregation gasped in horror. The men in the congregation were obviously
uneasy and writhed in their seats. Jim has been in terrible pain all month since the
accident. He has trouble breathing. He has trouble swallowing his food. He
can hardly lift anything, he's in so much pain, and he has missed work because of it. He can't lift our
children up to hold them and give them the personal love that they need.
Worst of all, we can no longer cuddle and have intimate relations. He is
in constant pain, a pain so terrible that our love life has all but slipped
away into oblivion.
I would like to ask you all in the congregation to pray for Jim, and pray for us, that his broken scrotum
will soon heal and be as good as new."
A dull murmur erupted within the
congregation as the full impact of this terrible accident sunk in, and the men
in the congregation were visibly shaken up with the thought that, "there
but for the grace of God go I."
Then, as the murmuring settled down, a lone figure stood up in midst of the
congregation, worked his way up to the pulpit, obviously in pain, adjusted
the microphone to his liking, then leaned over and said to the congregation:
My name is Jim, and I have only one word for my wife, Jill.
That
word is: "STERNUM!"
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