Having Children

"Having Children"

A recently married minister went to his congregation,
informed them of his wife's pregnancy and asked for
a raise that would allow him a reasonable salary.
After deliberation it was agreed that the increase in
family size warranted the raise.

After six births in six years the congregants called
a meeting to complain that the cost was becoming
burdensome. Things got contentious. Finally, the
minister stood at the altar and said, a little angrily,
"Having children is an act of G~d!"

"Snow and rain are acts of G~d, too," a man at the
back of the room said, "but most of us wear rubbers."
Received on Wed Jan 14 06:41:39 2004