[Healeys] Friday Funnies

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Laugh a little, it's good for the  soul.
 
As a young minister, I was asked by  a funeral director to hold a
grave-side  service for a homeless man,  with no family or friends.


The funeral was to be held at a  cemetery way back in the country, and 
this man would be the first to be  laid to rest there.


As I was not familiar with the  backwoods area, I became lost, and being a
typical man, I did not stop for  directions.  I finally arrived an hour late.

I saw the backhoe and the crew, who was eating lunch, but the hearse  was 
nowhere in sight.  I apologized to the workers for my  tardiness, and 
stepped to the side of the open gave, where I saw the  vault lid already in 
place.  
I assured the  workers I would not hold them up for long, but this was  the 
proper thing 
to do.
 
The workers gathered around, still eating their lunch.  I poured  out
my  heart and soul.  As I preached, the workers began to say  "Amen," "Praise 
 the
Lord," and "Glory"!  I preached, and I  preached, like I'd never preached 
before, from 
the Genesis all the way to Revelations.  I  closed the lengthy  service with 
a prayer 
and walked to my car.
As I was opening the car door and taking off my  coat, I overheard one of 
the workers saying to another, "I ain't never  seen anything like that 
before and I've been puttin' in septic tanks  for twenty years."










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