On the Lighter Side (January 2023)

Just the Nine of Us In Budapest, a man goes to the preacher and complains, “Life is unbearable. There are nine of us living in one room. What can I do?” The preacher answers, “Take your goat into the room with you.” The man in incredulous, but the preacher insists. “Do as I say and come back in a week.” A week later the man comes back looking more distraught than before. “We cannot stand it,” he tells the preacher. “The goat is filthy.” The preacher then tells him, “Go home and let the goat out. And come back in a week.” A radiant man returns to the preacher a week later, exclaiming, “Life is beautiful. We enjoy every minute of it now that there’s no goat—only the nine of us!” — Whose Book? Unfortunately many homes, yes even so-called Christian homes, are like the one in which the little…