God has a sense of humor and <br />If you have time I have a tale. <br /> <br />In military basic training land <br />The youngsters - not always young - <br />Always come to chapel.. <br />It is the only place where they are free <br />Loosed temporarily from the fetters of their captivity. <br />Basic is a place of pressure and of pain <br />Access to the military a goal to be gained. <br />The process lasts about twelve weeks <br />Twelve being the number choosen by our greatest teacher. <br /> <br />One Christmas eve with help from wife <br />Her intent being to help ease my preaching strife <br />A great sermon was spoken to the uniformed throng <br />Their attentiveness told me absolutely nothing was wrong. <br />A great sermon preached to a sea of faces <br />A little less pain in one of God's strange places. <br /> <br />But the best was yet to be <br />For God's sense of humor held a gift for me <br />That in that night of greatest pastoral power <br />A goal of rich adolescent vision had come to flower.<br /><br />Bill Grace<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/god-s-sense-of-humor-2/
