… having a great girlfriend email you, urgently, and say: “Do you know the tune to the line ‘all our sins and griefs to bear’ from the song ‘What a friend we have in Jesus’?” and not question why she needs to know. So you email her back instantly. “Yes. I know that line.” Her email comes back immediately. “Could you please sing it into my answering machine? I have an audition in an hour and I need to know the tune to that particular line.” So … knowing that your friend is standing right by the phone<\/i>, you pick up your cell phone, regardless of your surroundings, and you sing “What a Friend We Have In Jesus” directly into her answering machine. Of course, because of the absurdity of it, and because you cannot get the image out of your mind of your friend standing right there<\/i>, you burst out laughing a couple of times during the song and have to start again. Finally, “all our sins and griefs to bear” is safely on her answering machine, without any guffawing interruptions of laughter, and you can stop singing hymns into your cell phone in a fluorescent-lit public space.<\/p>\n
I have GOT to hear that message. My friend just emailed me quickly and said, “It was so hard not to pick up. That was one of the funniest things I’ve ever heard in my life.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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