Run With Your Playdough!!
This wonderful church story from my sister-in-law (from their assembly last Sunday):
The funniest story happened yesterday at church. Our minister was preaching about returning to our first love, Jesus. Great sermon, deep. All of a sudden the side door of the auditorium burst open. A little three year old is running and yelling, “No, no, they are after me.”
Mike stops and asks, “Ryan, who is after you?”
“They are after my playdough.”
Mike laughs and yells – “Run, Ryan, Run, here they come. Don’t let them get your playdough. Run to that door over there, that side.”
The little boy takes off squealing, gripping tight to his playdough. The whole congregation breaks out in laughter and applause as Ryan breaks through the side door with his playdough and the embarrassed teacher enters looking for his lost pupil. It was priceless. Ryan was screeching as he broke through the door to freedom.
Don’t let anyone take your playdough!!
That is awesome! Thanks for the laugh.
I think this may explain why life sometimes seems empty and unfulfilling. Somewhere along the way, I let The Man take my playdough.
That reminds me of a story from the Dale Foster Era at College Church in Searcy.
The “people with young children” area was in the front on the left nearest the door to the nursery. (Is it still? I don’t know.) However, the nursery only took children 18 months or younger, and the Cry Room (18 months and up) was in the BACK of the auditorium, so if your older child acted up, you had quite a trek to take them out of the assembly.
One Sunday morning Dale was droning along in his way and you could hear one little boy getting a little fractious and his mother trying to shush him. Finally, after a few more minutes of fussing, she stood up to take him back to the Cry Room. When she stepped out into the aisle, the little boy SCREAMED, “Somebody help me, she’s going to KILL ME!”
Silence.
Dale paused, took a breath, and continued with his sermon. We all released the breaths WE were holding to keep from bursting out laughing and I’m sure that mother walked up the aisle and out the door. I don’t know if she ever came back, though. I’m not sure I could face anyone there if it’d been me.
Mike,
Thanks for sharing this great story with us.
i guess some things are not meant to be shared
for instance your opinion, clint
I love it-hillarious-I wish I could have been there. Gotta love the spirit of kids!!
I needed a good laugh like this-thanks for sharing!!
Hang on to your playdough!
Pearls
I just posted a funny cell phone in church story if ya need another laugh. http://bikegirl2.wordpress.com/
We needed this laugh after the last thread of comments from your last post…
Love it! Sounds like the freedom our kids have at Highland, there are several I could just imagine replicating this. LOL Wouldn’t it be great if some adults could feel that freedom of expression?
That is AWESOME! Thanks for the good laugh!
Did this story make anybody besides me think of the “Cheers” episode where Frazier was “running with scissors”? Thanks for the story, and for causing the flashback to some good laughs from Cheers.
DU
Clint,
I love you! Your sense of humor is impeccable!
Lisa, College church has added on a very nice nursery wing with 5 or 6 classrooms east of the auditorium with an easily accessable exit door. There are training/nursing rooms in each of the back corners, also. I can’t think who the child was, but I remember it, b/c my son (6 or 7 at the time) leaned over and whispered to me that the mommy wouldn’t kill the child.
OH THAT WAS GOOD! I told that and the story from College Church to my wife just now and shared a mighty good laugh.
I love silly puddy better than playdoug.
Did any of you enjoy Silly Puddy? Do your kids now? My boys love it!
I always remember comming home after church and getting out the silly puddy and making pictures on it of the funny pages. It was so much fun.
I did both Silly Putty and Play Doh as a kid. I used to do that trick with the funnies, too. Long time ago though!
This is too good of a story to let pass by without a comment…
Haven’t we all felt this very same way ??? Haven’t we all felt that, when small and newborn, we possessed (sp?) something valuable and dear, which subsequently has been taken from us as we’ve grown up into and accepted the roles that people have told us we’re “supposed” to fill, as we’ve accepted the dogmas and believed the things that people have told us that we’re “supposed” to believe ???
With my pro-God, anti-Jesus bias, I suggest to you that when you bowed your head and accepted as true beliefs in such things as the Trinity, things which can’t be proven but only ‘swallowed’, you lost something wonderful and sacred which God gave to you at your birth…
Perhaps what we lose is the proper acknowledgement of the place of humility in the religious world. I say this because we’re apparently all about condemning other people because they either won’t believe in our unproveable miracle stories or they won’t alter their lives because of our unfounded speculations based on things nobody living today has ever seen and which can’t be reproduced…
Fundamentalist Christianity, fundamentalist Islam, fundamentalist Judaism are all, to borrow Jesus’ analogy, built on shifting sands; none of them can withstand the simple question, “Where is your proof ???”
If you still have that little bit of Playdough in your heart that tells you that God is too good to condemn people eternally based on things which are unproven and unproveable, then I tell you, “RUN !!!”
Jeff,
You say Christians have no proof and should believe the way you do yet where is your proof. You attack others belief but when you are called out you cry foul. Looks like you are playing in a sand box. Again I say you have only come to sow discord.
To Clint:
1. Please reference where I have called ‘foul’, as you say, for someone calling me out…
2. Since you’ve read my posts, Clint, you should know that I don’t claim to have any proof at all. THAT’S MY POINT.
3. If I’m come to cause trouble, Clint, it’s for those who claim to know God’s will based on little (or no) evidence, and it’s for those who would call names and assign labels based on that same scant evidence.
Jeff,
If you have no proof then you need to get the beam
out of your eye before you try and help someone with the speck in theirs.
that’s hilarious!!
i think this story is one reason Jesus said what He did about children, and how they are. if we can only be like them more.
Jeff,
Why do I feel like you are the one condemning others for thier beliefs because they are different than yours? It seems to me you are the one calling names and assigning labels. I have no problem with your opinions on this board…they make me think…yes I do think;) Not everyone was forcefed dogma and believed what we were “supposed” to
believe…some came to faith as adults and have looked at this decision from all sides. Their questioned brought them to their beliefs as yours brought you to yours.
I appreciate your honest thoughts Jeff.