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Some Funny Things Happened to Me

on the Way to Heaven

All of the blog posts in this category are excerpts from a future publication called Some Funny Things Happened to Me on the Way to Heaven. Be looking for this in the coming years and enjoy these funny tid bits from my life on my journey to meeting Jesus face to face.

Corporal Discipline, Well Deserved

The sixth-grade teacher left the room, and the air was filled with wadded up sheets of notebook paper - it looked like it was snowing on...

The Big Game Hunter - NOT!

It was a great Christmas. I received what every sixth grade boy in Texas desires - a BB gun. (The movie A Christmas Story is factual.) ...

Say what?

Students! You gotta love them "Sheepishly she knocked on my door, and I invited her to enter and be seated." One day I confiscated a...

Sodium and the Exploding Duck

The experiment that ended with a BANG! "When the smoke cleared, there was the duck, with his back to us, swimming rather crookedly away...

Snowball Jousting

My rejoicing was interrupted, thought, when I heard a police siren. It doesn’t snow very often in Belton Texas. When I was a senior in...

Kindergarten Sub

God bless kindergarten teachers! ...it set off a chain reaction second only to Chernobyl... I have decided that it requires a special...

The Late Pretty Boy

A parakeet, a vacuum, and tough lessons. "...he opened the cage door and came walking through the bedroom door..." The Late Pretty Boy...

Party Spoilers

What's the worst comment someone can say at a party? This might be it. "A hush fell over the room, and I hurried my father out the back...

Hospital Aviary

Outpatient surgery for a friend and dead birds...? "...thinking this isn't the most encouraging pre-surgery sight for a patient to...

Jeffery and Jeremiah

The innocence and naivety of children. "Jeremiah...!!" Jeffery and Jeremiah This event was not really racist. My grandson had an African...

Life-Threatening Super-Hero Illusions

Super-Hero or boy? "When they finally arrived, I excitedly put on the caped shirt, strapped the belt around my waist, and climbed the...

Sometimes, we just have to laugh!

A funny moment at the Gathering Place. “...using the logic of a five-year old, (he) headed to the opponents' goal because there was no...

Toilet Paper from God

When we ask, He provides. “...God had answered my prayer by providing...” Toilet Paper from God One night I was washing the dishes when...

Baptist Elevator

3:30 am with a psychiatric patient, what could go wrong? "Five hours later I was sitting in a seminary exegetical class, having had a...