Write About Now

My favorite piece of mail waiting when I returned from vacation yesterday:

Dear Jen: When you were a teenager I thought you were a really sharp young lady. Today I still think you are a sharp young lady. But why in the world did you steal my manuscript just before I preached at the North American Christian Convention? After all the good things I’ve said about you, Jen.

Seriously, I couldn’t let this go by without kidding you a little bit. I’d left the manuscript on the table back behind the stage when Cam Huxford wanted to go to the speaker’s room and talk for awhile. When I came back it was gone. That didn’t bother me too much because it wouldn’t have done me much good if I hadn’t been pretty well prepared anyway. But I was telling Doyle about it after we got back to St. Charles and he said, “Now I know where Jen Taylor found that manuscript.” So now we know, don’t we?

Hang in there, Jen. It’s always good to see you even when you are a timekeeper! God bless you.

Sincerely,

Ben Merold

Sorry, Ben. And yet you still managed to preach a magnificent sermon (which followed the manuscript exactly) and come in at precisely 30 minutes. I’d say you’re pretty sharp, too.