I’ve spent far too long writing and rewriting this week’s sermon. Time for bed, but before I go, here’s a joke I heard today from Rev. Eric Cherry of Unity Church in North Easton:

The minister droned on and on with the sermon, putting half the congregation to sleep. At last he finished, and at the close of the worship service he announced, “Will all Board members please join me for a meeting after the final hymn.”

Instead of going to coffee hour, the Board members dutifully followed the minister into a meeting room off the parish hall. Just as the door was about to close, another man walked in, someone no one knew. The minister said, “Perhaps you didn’t understand, this meeting is for Board members of the church.”

“Oh,” said the man, “I’m a bored member of the church, I’ve never been so bored in my life as I was during that sermon.”