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| Along the Way 4-1-11 |
 Have I told you about the time I flew a hang glider over the Grand Canyon? My family and I were vacationing on the North Rim when we met a man selling tickets for this once-in-a-lifetime experience. Included in the ticket price was a 30-minute training session, a fail-safe parachute and a helicopter ride from the South Rim back to the North Rim. The fine print on the ticket warned that those who used the parachute would be responsible for returning to the top of the canyon on their own.I couldn’t resist the offer; pastors are always looking for sermon illustrations and this seemed to offer an opportunity for a first person sermon on faith or trust or even sheer idiocy. So I bought my ticket over the protest of my family, took my training and…April Fools Day. Yep, you fell for a whopper, didn’t you? Sorry, but I couldn’t resist. April Fools Day is on no liturgical calendar and has no assigned color, though if chagrin or being taken for a sucker has a particular color, that would be it. There are no lectionary texts assigned for April Fools Day, although I suspect somebody could scare up something from Proverbs. If you’re looking for some serious conclusions to today’s post, forget it. We’re about half way through the somber season of Lent and a brief respite is a good thing. So if you have 3 minutes to spare, here’s a humorous (in a British kind of way) 1957 April Fools video produced by our friends across the pond. Makes me want to plant some spaghetti bushes in the back yard of the parsonage. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=27ugSKW4-QQ I’ll see you Sunday. Keep on smiling! Creede Hinshaw P.S. About that apostrophe…you can find April Fools Day spelled with the apostrophe either before or after the “s” and quite often w/no apostrophe at all. The joke’s on all of us. |
