I was the first to wake the following morning and when I saw that the sun was just about to make its morning appearance I shook Meek awake so he wouldn’t miss it. It is impossible for me to describe how beautiful it was to see the first rays of the sun over the horizon.
While I got changed, Meek packed up our things and even spent a couple minutes reading out of a small pocket sized Bible before we got on our way again.
“Alvin!”
“What?” I called from behind him.
“I was just thinking how alone we are out here and … well, listen to this…” he began to read a passage from his Bible.
“Where shall I go from your Spirit? Or where shall I flee from your presence? If I ascend to heaven, you are there! If I make my bed in Sheol, you are there! If I take the wings of the morning and dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea, even there your hand shall lead me, and your right hand shall hold me.”
“Huh!” I grunted thoughtfully as I slipped off my wet GoodNite.
“Sounds like no matter where we go; God’s going to be there before us?” He said with gleefulness in his voice.
Trying to be funny I said, “If it had said dirt bike instead of wings, I would have thought it was wrote about the two of us.”
“I don’t think they had dirt bikes back in the bible times.” Meek said with a chuckle.
“Too bad.” I said, “Would have cut down on all that donkey riding.”
There was a minute pause before Meek asked, “Did you know Jesus owned a car?”
“What?!” I exclaimed.
“Yep! He owned a Honda.”
I couldn’t help but to laugh, “No he didn’t!”
“Sure he did! It says right here in the Bible that Jesus and his Apostles were all in one Accord.”
I groaned, “Meek that was bad!”
He laughed.
“Did you know that they had Baseball back in the bible days?”
“No way!” I said even though I was expecting the joke this time.
“Yes way, the very first baseball game is recorded in the scriptures.” He said seriously.
“Where?” I asked which only set me up for his little joke.
“It is right there in the very first verse of Genesis… ‘In the Big Inning’ … and then in Genesis chapter three and verse six it tells us that Eve stole first and Adam stole second.”
I groaned loudly.
“Wait I am not done!” he laughed, “So in Exodus chapter four and verse four he says… and I quote, ‘And he put out his hand and caught it.’”
“Won’t you go to hell if you use bible parts to mean stuff they don’t really mean?” I said but it was barely intelligible as I was laughing so hard.
“Yeah but it also says in the book of Numbers that there were Ten home runs.”
“No it doesn’t!” I said even though I didn’t know if it did or didn’t.
“Yep, in chapter 11, verse 32 it says ‘Ten homers!’ And Proverbs eighteen and ten says ‘The righteous run into it and are safe.’”
I fell over from laughing and got my naked backside all dirty.
“STOOOOOP!” I cried with laughter.
“And then in Ezekiel thirty-six and chapter 12, ‘Yea, I will cause men to walk.’”
After that, we both were laughing too hard to talk for a spell.
I got to my feet and was brushing my backside off when he began to machine gun me with bad Bible jokes.
“Why wouldn’t anyone play poker on the Ark?” Meek asked.
“I dunno!” I laughed.
“Because the animals were on the deck.”
“Meeeeeek!” I groaned and hooted at the same time.
Before I could stop laughing, he hit me with another one, “Where was King Solomon’s temple located?”
“I’m afraid to ask.” I whimpered.
Laughing he said, “On the side of his head.”
“Aaaaahhhh!” I cried from the pain of such a corny joke.
“Why did Moses cross the Red Sea?”
Before I could respond he hit me with the punch line, “To get to the other side – weren’t you tired of all those ‘Why’d the chicken cross the road’ jokes?”
“Stop!” I Begged.
Laughingly he relented with, “Sorry, but I got a million of them just as bad as those!”