Beware Brothersl I feel like such a fool.

[HTannor]

GOODBYE MOM

I was shopping in a supermarket and noticed a little old lady following me around. If I stopped, she stopped. Furthermore she kept staring at me.

She finally overtook me at the checkout, and she turned to me and said,
"I hope I haven't made you feel ill at ease; it's just that you look so much like my late son."

I answered, "That's okay."

"I know it's silly, but if you'd call out "Good bye, Mom" as I leave the store, it would make me feel so happy."

She then went through the checkout and, as she was on her way out of the store, and I called out, "Good-bye, Mom."

The little old lady waved, and smiled back at me.

Pleased that I had brought a little sunshine into someone's day, I went to pay for my groceries.

"That comes to $121.85," said the clerk..

"That can't be right... I only bought 5 items.."

The clerk replied, "Yeah, but your Mother said you'd be paying for her things, too."






Don't let this happen to you. Little old ladies are treacherous.

[Pastor Isaac Peters]

Re: Beware Brothersl I feel like such a fool.

That is indeed a sad tale, Brother, but it could be avoided if we treated little old ladies, however sweet they may seem, as the Bible commands:

1 Tim. 5:9-12: Let not a widow be taken into the number under threescore years old, having been the wife of one man, Well reported of for good works; if she have brought up children, if she have lodged strangers, if she have washed the saints' feet, if she have relieved the afflicted, if she have diligently followed every good work. But the younger widows refuse: for when they have begun to wax wanton against Christ, they will marry; Having damnation, because they have cast off their first faith.