Mushroom Faith!
A group of friends from ranches around had decided they wanted to get together on a regular basis to fellowship, eat, and play 42 dominoes and cards. They decided to rotate it from one house to the next and whoever hosts also prepares the meal for the evenin’.
Well, it came time for ole’ Slim and his wife Janet to have the shindig over to their house. Janet decided she really wanted to have mushroom-smothered steaks. The steaks weren’t no problem as they had the beef. It turns out that a cow was involved in a car accident. But the mushrooms was a different story. Janet just couldn’t figure out how she could afford the mushrooms she was wanting to smother them steaks with. She told Slim, “Honey, I guess there won’t be any
mushrooms. They’re just too doggone high at the store!” Slim thought and said, “Why don’t you just go out there to the creek near where we feed. There’s plenty of mushrooms there in the creek bed.”
She said, “No, I don’t think so, Slim, some wild mushrooms are poison.”
Slim told her, “I don’t think these are poison, Hank and Rowdy are always down there being up
to no good. I’ve seen them eatin’ them ‘rooms like candy! I think they’re alright.”
Janet decided she’d pick a bunch! She washed, sliced, and diced them but before she put ‘em on the steaks, she had to perform a test.
Ol’ Spot was sittin’ on the back porch so she gave him a cup full of mushrooms. He gulped down the hole cupful in one swaller. She watched that dog all morning. The wild mushrooms didn’t seem to affect Spot, so she decided to go ahead and use them on the steaks.
Janet enlisted the help of a lady from town named Ethel, in order to get everything ready and served up on time. We all thought the steaks were awesome!
After everyone was done, they relaxed, socialized, and played 42 dominoes. It was just about then that Ethel, the helper, came in and whispered in Janet’s ear. “It’s terrible, Ol’ Spot is dead!”
Janet lost it. She pulled herself together, she called the doctor and told him what happened.
The doctor was concerned! “I’ll be right there, and I’ll get the emt’s and the county ambulance, we’ll be there as soon as we can! We’re gonna have to give everyone an enema and also pump out their stomachs.” (Now, some of us who do our own cow doctorin’ was wonderin’ what in the world we needed that enema for. Anyways, we followed the doctor’s orders)
Pretty soon, the doctor and his assistants arrived and went right to work. Each one got an enema and their stomach pumped. They worked for a long while. After a little bit, we were all doing fine, so the doc went home.
Everyone was just sitting around in the living room recoverin’ when Ethel, the helper came in and whispered to Janet, came in and whispered to Janet, “You know, that fellow that run over Old
Spot, he never even stopped.”
Yep, Janet had jumped to a conclusion. (This story isn’t mine, I had heard it somewhere before)
It’s important to find out the whole story.
Jesus died on the cross. Yes, He died for the sins of mankind. But what many don’t get is that
Jesus didn’t stay dead. The followers of Jesus never comprehended that Jesus had told them that
He must die so they can live. They never comprehended all the things Jesus had told them in
Matt 12:40, the Son of Man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth. NASU
He conquered death. He is at the right hand of the Father making eternal life available to all!
Choose Jesus, choose life and let your light shine! And find a Bible believin’ church where you
“fit in” and know, grow, and follow Christ! Tell others! See y’all at church and keep PRAYIN’
for HIS HARVEST! Pray for the rain! Amen.